What is Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)?
Trap-Neuter-Return is the humane and effective approach for stray and feral cats. Now in practice for decades in the US after being proven in Europe, scientific studies show that Trap-Neuter-Return improves the lives of feral cats, improves their relationships with the people who live near them, and decreases the size of colonies over time.
Trap-Neuter-Return is successfully practiced in hundreds of communities and in every landscape and setting. It is exactly what it sounds like: Cats are humanely trapped and taken to a veterinarian to be neutered and vaccinated. After recovery, the cats are returned to their home—their colony—outdoors. Kittens and cats who are friendly and socialized to people may be adopted into homes.
Grounded in science, TNR stops the breeding cycle of cats and therefore improves their lives while preventing reproduction. It is a fact that the removal and killing of outdoor cats that animal control has been pursuing for decades is never ending and futile. Since feral cats are not adoptable, they are killed in pounds and shelters. With a successful program like Trap-Neuter-Return to turn to, it’s hard to believe that animal control agencies continue to kill cats, even though that approach has shown zero results.
It is time to put an end to catch and kill. Trap-Neuter-Return provides a life-saving, effective solution for these beautiful, independent cats.
There are so many reasons to embrace and promote TNR! Trap-Neuter-Return:
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Source: https://www.alleycat.org/resources/why-trap-neuter-return-feral-cats-the-case-for-tnr/
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Do you need assistance with a colony? Can you help us help them?
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Trap-Neuter-Return requires effort and most importantly, cooperation. The caretakers who feed the colony must be a part of the TNR and all efforts must be coordinated. It takes traps, carriers, wet cat food, crates, tarps, sheets, drivers, fosters and funds to complete a TNR of a colony.
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Why fosters? Yea, we know the R means release or return, but as the colony is trapped, not all cats will be healthy enough for surgery. Those cats need their own foster to get better before surgery can be completed before they can be returned.
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Sponsorship for a feral cat to be spayed/neutered and vaccinated is $30. Sponsorship for a sick feral is $50 and sponsorship for an entire colony depends on the size of the colony!
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