So we have continued feeding them all summer, two of them would allow me to pet them but the other three would jump as soon as they saw my hand near them. As soon as they saw me though and I called them they would come running to me. It's basically been building trust with them the last couple months.
I heard of a cat sanctuary about 45 minutes from us so I drove over this morning to talk to the owner. I explained the whole situation to her and she told me that the best thing for them was to keep them together. To try and separate them at this point would not be good for them or a home. She said she can get them fixed with shots but she doesn't think she can adopt them out. She is actually at max capacity with 500 cats and all the area animal shelters are full as well so there is no place to even keep them.
I said fuck it, I'll trap them and bring them to you, fix them, I will give you a donation to you sanctuary and bring them back home to our empty barn.
The conversation was much more in depth but that was the basics of it.
So I sprung the trap tonight and captured them.
I'm going to order 20 bales of straw tomorrow and will build them a nice home in the barn. Will be picking them up on saturday.
I was surprised my wife was fine with this. She actually wrote out the check for the donation.