More
Alley Cat Allies
Login/Update Your Profile NEW!
  • About
  • Press
  • ADOPT
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • BlueSky
  • Threads
Menu
  • Cat Care
  • Resources
    • Resource Library
    • How to Help Sick or Injured Cats NEW!
    • Share the Truth Pocket Guide NEW!
    • Community Resource Tool™ NEW!
    • Alley Cat Allies Cat Help Desk™
    • Exposing Disinformation of TNR NEW!
    • TNR Facts
    • TNR Research Library
    • Low-Cost Veterinary Care Directory
    • Animal Food Bank Directory
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Our Work
    • Our Work For Cats
    • Transform & Develop Communities
    • Protect & Improve the Lives of Cats
    • Campaigns for Cats
    • Disaster Response
    • Cats Are Family Too™
    • Feline Frenzy®
    • Feral Friends Network®
    • Impact Reports
    • Newsletters
    • Legal Documents
    • Letters and Testimony to Officials
  • Stories
    • Latest News
    • Press Releases
    • Letters to the Editor | Op-Eds
    • News on Our Work
  • Ways To Give
    • All Ways to Give
    • Monthly Giving
    • Bequests (Will, Trust), POD
    • Tributes
    • Workplace Giving & Matching Gifts
    • Vehicle Donations
    • Donor Advised Funds
    • Stock Donations
    • Cat-A-Log
    • Retirement Giving
    • Donate Today
    • Login / Update your Profile NEW!
  • Shop
  • Take Action
  • Donate
Alley Cat Allies›Cat Care›Cat Care
Community Cat Care

Cat Care

Find the info you need

Categories

  • Trap-Neuter-Return
    • Planning
    • Trapping
    • Recovery
    • Return
    • Troubleshooting
  • Cat Care
    • Friendly Cats
    • Kittens
      • Socializing Kittens
    • Colony Care
      • Providing Food and Water
      • Providing Shelter
      • Seasonal Tips
      • Ongoing Care
  • Community Relations
    • Being Proactive
    • Resolving Conflict
  • Providing Outdoor Litter Boxes

    Keep cats from using gardens, yards or other undesirable areas to eliminate in by providing an outdoor litterbox. It's easy to set-up, easy to maintain and a great way to help neighbors and cats coexist.

  • 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.

  • Caring for Neonatal Kittens

    Alley Cat Allies Kitten Care guide is here to help with your newborn (or neonatal) kitten. Learn tips like what milk to feed kittens and how to burp them.

  • 5 Important Steps to Adopting a Cat to the Best Home Possible

    The stray cat you are trying to place in a home deserves one that is loving, compassionate, and safe. To make that a reality, follow these important steps in the adoption process.

  • Foster Cat Adoption Tips

    If you've found a friendly stray cat and have looked for her previous home without success, you can try to find her a new forever family while you foster her. Follow these steps to help get your foster kitty adopted.

  • How to Find a Stray Cat’s Home

    Want to know where to take stray cats when you find them? Follow these Alley Cat Allies tips to help you find a stray cat's home.

  • Help A Cat Become Comfortable in a New Environment

    Stressful situations may cause a cat to behave in ways that seem frightened or aggressive. Learn how to interpret and respond to cat behaviors with tips from Alley Cat Allies and cat expert Joan Miller. You may be able to soothe a stressed stray cat and increase her chances for adoption.

  • Adoption

    It's important to know that if you don't feel like you have the time and resources to take in a friendly cat, that's OK. In that case, though, it really is best to leave her where she is after Trap-Neuter-Return.

  • 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.

Previous Page
Next Page

Categories

  • Trap-Neuter-Return
    • Planning
    • Trapping
    • Recovery
    • Return
    • Troubleshooting
  • Cat Care
    • Friendly Cats
    • Kittens
      • Socializing Kittens
    • Colony Care
      • Providing Food and Water
      • Providing Shelter
      • Seasonal Tips
      • Ongoing Care
  • Community Relations
    • Being Proactive
    • Resolving Conflict

Join the Movement

Get the latest cat news, information, and ways to take action and save cats’ lives!

Since 1990, Alley Cat Allies has led the movement to protect and improve the lives of ALL cats. Today, over 1.7 million supporters join us in our mission, and people worldwide look to Alley Cat Allies for leadership in humane, evidence-based programs for cats and kittens. Please join us as we build a world where all cats are valued and every community has policies and resources to defend them.

Sign me up!
  • Donate
  • Get Help For Cats
  • Take Action
  • Shop
  • Our Work
    • Animal Shelters
    • Anti-Cruelty
    • Cats and the Law
    • Disaster Response
    • Spay and Neuter
    • Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)
    • Newsletters
  • Resources
    • Cat Care Center
    • Recursos en Español
    • TNR Resources
    • Community Resource Tool™
    • Alley Cat Allies Cat Help Desk™
    • Veterinary Resource Center
    • Webinars
  • Take Action
    • Action Center – Local & Regional
    • Become a Cat Activist
    • Global Cat Day®
    • Share Your Cat Expertise
    • Stand Against Animal Cruelty!

Alley Cat Allies

© 2026 Alley Cat Allies. All rights reserved. Alley Cat Allies is a 501(c)3 organization.

  • About Alley Cat Allies
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Terms and Conditions for Rewards
  • Sitemap
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • BlueSky
  • Threads
Candid Platinum  Charity Navigator