RICHMOND – First, there is a single mew, then a chorus, high and pleading, almost pitiful, demanding attention. The sound comes from inside the all-volunteer Humane Society of Ray County. Down the street from the society’s booth at the Mushroom Festival on May 7, and just inside the office door at 200 S. College St., volunteer Jackie Poss sits with a kitty, a few days old, resting in her left hand and a syringe full of milk in her right hand. The kitten nurses and mews, and two siblings in the carrier beside the chair mew, too. They do so just as harmoniously as a junior high garage band in a thunderstorm. “Their momma’s been gone for a day and people “Their momma’s been gone for a day and people found them,” Director Donna Payton says. The situation is not so simple as collecting and presenting the kittens to the Humane Society. “They had to take the porch apart,” Payton says. The kittens continue to plead for milk Often, tiny kittens will not survive separation from their mother,…