My name is Illy and I was discovered when I was just a few hours old inside the compost bin of a community garden. I didn’t know where I was. I didn’t know what was going on, but I was warm. Someone noticed me in there and saw my mom on the border of the garden, watching. They weren’t sure what to do with me, so someone placed me in a little towel in a plastic bag and tied it to the lid of the compost bin then sat a bowl of cat food on top. I’m pretty sure they were trying to entice my mom back as she was pretty skittish and frightened of the people milling about. But it didn’t work.