The problem of plenty

I I have been feeding stray cats around my apartment for the past couple of years. 

It has become almost a routine that the female cats give birth to the kittens in my house and they usually go out when they are old enough. We usually de-worm the kittens and vaccinate them, we try to protect them and make sure they are healthy. Now the problem is there are plenty of stray cats around my area and the neighbours are complaining. They are asking us to stop feeding them, but we are helpless when they all come and mew hungrily outside our homes. 

We neutered a couple of cats with the help of a Vet, but they became weak and died a week later. So my mom is against taking them to a vet saying that nature should take its own course. Plus since they are strays it is not easy to catch them and take them to the vet. I am unable to get any help from Blue Cross India as they said they will rescue stray/ violent dogs and not cats as they are pretty much harmless. Could someone please advise me what to do? I do not want these neighbours to do anything to these good cats. 

You are living in India, right?   I think  you began with the right thing to do; ie, try and spay / neuter as many of them as possible.  THIS is the long term help for them.

Why these two first died,  I dont know.  The vet unskilled?  Try with another vet.  Or hope he learned some, even from his unsuccessful first attempts...   Talk it through with this vet, if you can and dare.   

Another though: it was perhaps too much done at once on the same vet visit?   spaying, deworming, vaccinating???   If so, do it  on several occasions.  Two or three different vet visits.

You had them for short time for recovery?   The homeless have usually a very good "healing meat", as the weak ones die off quite soon.  So these you DO see around, are usually the survivors, those already tried out.    So when a female home cat should have a recovery of at least one week,   three days is very enough for most of the homeless. 

Or you did managed to catch them for spaying because they were already ill?

Or just sheer unluck??   Spaying is a big operation, so of course, now and then it doesnt go well.  Yet, delivering is not entirely safe either.

Anyway,  good if you can continue with your great work you are doing.  For further making it even better, please plan on renewing your spaying and neutering.

HOW, is next question.

Compare with the  "TNR" word, so common in USA  (not so common in Sweden as yet, sorrowfully).

Tx for caring!

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