Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)

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Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the humane approach to addressing homeless cat populations.  It saves cats’ lives and is effective. TNR improves the lives of cats, addresses community concerns, reduces complaints about free-roaming cats, and stops the vigorous breeding cycle.  

 

Scientific studies and communities with TNR programs are proof that TNR reduces and stabilizes populations of homeless cats roaming the streets.

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In a Trap-Neuter-Return program, homeless cats are humanely trapped, brought to a veterinarian to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, eartipped (the universal sign that a cat has been neutered and vaccinated), and then returned to their outdoor community to live out the rest of their lives.  

 

Over time, the individual cat colony decreases naturally, and humanely.