In the farmhouse where I spend my summers there s a cat mother who keeps bringing in litters of 2 to 5 kittens at a time.Then, most years, all the kittens are lost. We either find them a bit further away from the shack where they shelter, run over, or we just don t find them. This happens only to kittens aged between one to two months. Older cats also sometimes leave or die but never in the same way (i.e. the males leave obviously but the females stay etc). Occasionally one kitten will make it to adulthood. One year, one litter of five made it intact and we couldn t believe it.Then, this year me and my host finally convinced ourselves we fully understand what happens. One of the people who live in the house has an electric car (a Citroën Ami). The kittens climb into the car s front where there is a big empty space, large enough for three of them at a time. My host saw them there so we know that for a fact. Then, and this is our hypothesis, the car takes off making no noise so it doesn t (immediately) scare the kittens. The kittens then fall out of it at some point, either to get crushed under its wheels, or to get lost somewhere in the farm, or outside, on the road.This year we lost first one, then three, then two of a litter of five (one had gone missing already before we arrived). We found the first one in the middle of a field about ~50m away from the shack. The other two in a forest ~100m away. Then we lost those two again and only found one in the same place. There is a small grove of trees there, which is near the farm s gate and cars exiting the farm must stop to check the traffic, so we assume the pause gives a chance to the kittens to jump out of their hidey place in the car.To be sure we ve also lost (or found run over) kittens when we were pretty sure the electric car wasn t there and when we could tell another car had just left, so it s not juts the silence of the electric car that s causing the problem. However, we ve lost about 10-12 kittens in the last five years and most of them we could pin on the electric car.My question for you HN: what can we do? Is there a technological solution to this problem? Is there anything that can keep kittens away from a car, or any space really?I m tired of dead kittens. It s taking a toll on me, I know it s silly but it s maddening and of course the humans in the loop will not take responsibility for what s happening and won t do anything to protect those kittens, so it falls upon me and my host to figure out what to do.Last week we both spent three consecutive evenings of trying to lure the two kittens from my fourth paragraph out of the grove with food. It turns out I can make a very convincing mother cat call. We almost transformed into cats ourselves, like that couple in the folktale about the elderly couple that transformed into monkeys for their evil. And then we lost one again. I can t stand it anymore. Help HN!