Our team returns to the temple: Matt Backhouse, SCAD Operations Director; Katherine, a WSPA vet from Florida; Toni, a vet nurse from New Zealand; and Kinship responders June Towler and Tracie Dawson from Canada. After more assessment, we convince temple staff to let us move cats to their own lower-level cattery. About 50 volunteers and army personnel show up to clean, with some assigned to a downstairs cattery we build with fencing and a door to keep dogs out. We carefully untie cages to move hundreds of suspended cats from the upper level. One slip and a cat could drop into the swamp. Each is ferried through a glut of dogs and feces to a small, slimy metal staircase with no handrail. Loss of balance is not an option, as the stairs end in knee-deep sludge. Dogs line the staircase, so we lower cats by rope. With so many cages, we eventually form a chain of hands to move cats down the steps. Amazingly, no humans or felines fall during the operation. As we finalize cattery set-up, a local caretaker dumps dog food on the floor surrounding the cats! It becomes apparent that our primary concern to separate cats from dogs is misunderstood. We explain that loose dogs in the cattery stress out cats and pose safety risks, but they do not agree. Our vets check as many injured animals as possible in a temporary field treatment site we erect in an open-sided pavillion. As nightfall descends, Kinship Circle's Tracie and June hold two mini flashlights to assist veterinarians Toni and Katherine. We eventually return to our hotel weary, hot, frustrated.