Winter Weather Tips – Help Stray Cats this Winter

Community cats can thrive outside even winter weather—but you can help. Use these tips about food, water, and shelter during the snowy season.

Wildlife Concerns

Volunteers for Nonprofits May Be Able to Deduct Cat Care Related Expenses on Their Taxes

Ongoing Health Care

Summer Weather Tips

Keep cats comfortable in the summer heat! When things warm up, you can help cats cool down. Use our hot-weather tips to keep cats happy, healthy, and hydrated.

Feeding Locations and Stations

Deterring Insects

Cats Fighting

Cats are territorial, which can lead to fighting over food, water, shelter, or a specific location. This fighting behavior is common among cats who aren't spayed or neutered. Through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), nuisance behaviors such as fighting, spraying, yowling, and roaming are eliminated.

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.