I completely agree, and my kingdom is usually in the middle of all the fun, not over run, but not completely missing spawn rate. This is the worse I've seen and I just managed to get that kitty, and I did all the upgrades before getting the swamp kitty. This event reminds me of that, but on that event I didn't have such a bad start. I remember having a day or two during that event where the only time the kitty spawned was on the mine, but we didn't have Thomas's house to spawn either.