Alley Cat Allies Reaches 5000 Cat Milestone in Trap-Neuter-Return Collaboration in Atlantic County
ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY—Alley Cat Allies reached a milestone of 5000 cats helped in its latest Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) collaboration with the Humane Society of Atlantic County (HSAC). To continue the lifesaving momentum, Alley Cat Allies has issued a new grant to help 1000 more cats and kittens in the next months.
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Mountain Home: Trap-Neuter-Return Is NOT Abandonment, It's A Homecoming
Alley Cat Allies sent the following letter to the City of Mountain Home, Idaho, urging strongly against the city’s false and dangerous interpretation that Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is abandonment under its animal ordinance. TNR is not abandonment, but a homecoming that provides community cats with critical, life-improving spay and neuter and vaccination …
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NEW RESOURCES: Step-by-Step Guide to Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)—Field Edition
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Step-by-Step Guide to Trap-Neuter-Return – FIELD EDITION
This new resource is an updated version of our popular Step-By-Step Guide to Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)! Durable, spiral-bound, and waterproof, it’s designed to carry with you in the field while caring for community cats and doing TNR.
Our …
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5 Reasons to Never Leave Traps Unattended During TNR
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the humane and effective approach to community cats—but following the best practices is crucial to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the cats. It cannot be stressed enough that set humane traps should never be left unattended.
TNR advocates should keep careful track of every trap they set and …
Ambler, PA: TNR Works, Feeding Bans Do Not
… willing to help cats and their community, and they prevent the only humane and effective approach to community cats (unowned cats who live outdoors): Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR). We strongly recommend rejecting this feeding ban and urge you to support TNR instead.
Alley Cat Allies is the leader of the global movement to protect and …
Pleasant Hill: TNR is the Only Humane and Effective Approach to Community Cats
… to community cats that improves cats’ lives and the community—and that is TNR. Through TNR, community cats are humanely trapped; brought to a veterinary clinic to be spayed or neutered, eartipped (the universal sign that a cat has been spayed or neutered through a TNR program), and vaccinated; and then are returned to their
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Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in Action in Granite Shoals, Texas
… with a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program.
Alley Cat Allies condemned the comments and worked with local advocates and officials in the city to implement and protect TNR, including by providing heavy input on the city’s TNR ordinance—passed in March of 2024. Now we’re helping the community put TNR into action—including …
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Learn the Top TNR Tips
… microchipped with their caregiver or TNR advocate information.
3. RETURN: After the cats recover, return them to their outdoor home where they were trapped.
To emphasize, ALL TNR should include:
1. Vaccination
2. Eartipping
3. Microchipping
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Lamar, Missouri: Trap-Neuter-Return is Not Abandonment
Alley Cat Allies sent the following letter to the mayor and city council of Lamar, Missouri. Currently, in the city, Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), the only humane and effective approach to community cats, is being equated with abandonment. TNR is not abandonment, including by the standards of Lamar’s own animal laws. It is a …
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Defending TNR and Community Cats
… Cat Allies broke through barriers, proved the efficacy of TNR, and launched it into the mainstream. Today, TNR programs thrive in communities around the world.
But though TNR is backed by science and popular demand, it still faces dangerously misinformed portrayals in the media and beyond. TNR opposition calls for killing cats outdoors, all while …