Rescue Coordination and TNR for Cats and Kittens

Our Impact

One of the kittens trapped under the elevator of fiesta mall

What is TNR

WHAT IS TNR?

Trap, Neuter, Return, or TNR, is the most effective approach to managing and helping outdoor cat population. The focus is on trapping the cats to get them to a clinic for spay/neuter surgery. This is the only sure way to manage cat overpopulation. While the cat is at a clinic she or he will probably have an exam and receive a rabies shot. Some clinics will also do flea treatments, ear mite treatment, and a FCRVP vaccination. Before trappers work on a location with cats, there needs to be a consistent feeding schedule since food is used to lure the cat into the trap, but also so the cats will be receiving food, clean water, and be monitored by feeders. Sick or injured cats often need to be retrapped to be helped. Not all cats at feeding stations are feral. Many dumped or lost stray cats find their way to a feeding station and join the colony of cats there. They also need to be TNR’d so they don’t reproduce, and if tame, trappers try to get them into a foster situation with a rescue organization. Often trappers find kittens born outside. We try to keep them with their mothers until they are weaned and not nursing, trap the family and either return to the colony if feral, or socialize the kittens for adoption later. So, TNR serves many purposes. Through sterilization it reduces the cat population outdoors, through assessment we save many cats and kittens from a life outdoors, and through a clinic exam we can treat many medical conditions. Colony maintenance involves all these steps and the lifelong monitoring of the cats there to give them the best life possible living outdoors. Rescue coordination is essential to giving these kittens and strays a better life whenever that option is possible, and these relationships with our partners make that possible more often.

Cats action team and others coming together for a 30+ cat colony one night trapping.

Team work

We are proud to partner with a variety of organizations and businesses to support our community. Our partnerships enable us to expand our reach and provide even more resources and services to those kittens and cats in need.

Saving One Life is a never kill foster based rescue that we are so fond of that we each exclusively foster through them, feeling so grateful that they keep accepting our sick and injured and more. They are vital to our ability to help the kittens and friendly adults and always need good committed capable fosters.

We work with many rescues for intakes of the many we come across in dire need. Halo, Purrfect Endings, Desert Paws, Bottle Babies Kitten Rescue, Lost pit Home Rescue and Saving One Life. Rescue. coordination is a vital part of TNR and colony management. Kittens and friendly strays are always advocated for with rescue placement instead of return as a preferred outcome.