No strays around...?

Well, I found out the history of the stray colony I feed, and found articles with photos of them in our feeding station, in the news of a couple years back, so all is fine. The colony's caretaker, a famous local radio and TV woman, died and her friend took care of the cats till some time ago. I didn't know all this till a couple days ago when the building super introduced me to the woman. Most are spayed/neutered, but some aren't, so I'm looking for a good trapper that won't charge much and the municipality will do the rest.

Question is, the last few days very few cats have come while I feed them, I suppose they come afterwards. There was a bully cat sending all the others away the last time we were a big group, and I'm worried that maybe my constant telling him "no" made things worse rather than better?

These are mostly friendly strays, so I was used to being surrounded by them while I fed them. I'd prefer it that way, because then I can see them and make sure they're all ok.

Tomorrow I'll give them another chicken breast party and see if they all appear, but any comments/insights/advice will be much appreciated!!!!

And is it inappropriate to say that I miss them?

Of course it's appropriate to say you miss them. We care for ferals, so I'm used to them coming after we put the food out and scattering at the smallest noise we make. Fortunately, we live in a rural area and we feed them right outside, so we can watch them out the window - but that doesn't mean they come when we're looking.

Any reason you can't do the trapping yourself? It's not that hard (usually), and most easily done by someone near the location.

Hi LDG, thanks for the reassurance! I tried together with the guy from the municipality a couple weeks ago, but he said my cats are too well fed by the neighbors to be desperate enough to go into a cage. We weren't able to catch even one, and the only ones who ever came near the cage were the already spayed ones, LOL