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  • New Cats

    While caring for an outdoor cat colony, you might notice new members joining the group. After all, you're providing food, water, and outdoor shelter, and word gets around that it's the place to be! Sometimes, though, new cats behave more wildly than the cats already in the colony.

  • Addressing Abandonment

    Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is a common-sense practice for colonies of cats who live around human dwellings and buildings. They have strong bonds with their family groups and are very attached to their domain. So, when you return a cat to where she was trapped as part of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), you are as the name says returning her to her domain. Her home. TNR is not abandonment.

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