Memphis kitten

  We have two large dogs, numerous cats and almost 50 chickens.  I also love to feed the hummingbirds and songbirds. I think we take good care of our animals.   This weekend we went to Memphis to see my mama.  She has various feral cats around her house that she feeds.  There is a mama cat with 3 gray kittens and the kittens were weaned and easy to catch, but not exactly tame.  I wanted to give one a better life with us and to have a Memphis cat.  Well we caught one and placed it in a cardboard box.  We then went to a family gathering at my husband's uncle's house in another part of Memphis.  My family brought the cat into a shaded breezeway and placed a firepit grate over the top of the box so it could get air.  It was quite a hot day.  We gave him water and checked on the kitten frequently.  Well at some point the kitten made an escape.  The whole family came out and looked for the kitten but if anything we probably ran it farther away.  We never saw it again and I just feel terrible.  I really wanted to help out the little thing and all I did was take it away from everything familiar and it's family.  It's in a much worse situation now.  The whole thing just gives me an uneasy feeling.  You can have good intentions and think you are doing the right thing and it just go terribly wrong.  We should have recognized that the grate was a little bit short and it could be moved.  Why didn't we see these things as possibilities and do something else?  The whole situation didn't go as I planned and that gives me a bad feeling.  Anything can turn out like that.  And sometimes the consequences could be so much worse or even tragic.  This whole condition of being human and in this world can be kind of dicey and unpredictable.  I want to think we have control over things, but we don't always.  It all just makes me uneasy. (I'm seeing this over and over again in the ER)    I guess for the most part, I'm over the whole thing.  I hope the kitten survives. The uncle said he'd call us if the kitten shows up.