Are you looking for the most humane, cost-effective solution to the endless numbers of feral cats brought into your facility? Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the only way to effectively bring down the numbers of feral cats in your community, in both the short- and long-term.

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An Introduction to Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)   Starting a TNR Program   Learning to Trap Feral Cats   Citizens Concerns and Complaints about Outdoor Cats   Scientific Studies   Issues Surrounding Feral Cats   Additional Resources
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An Introduction to Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)

• Feral Cats and Public Health Tompkins County SPCA
• Feral Cats—Bringing the Numbers Down
• Talking the Talk: Essential Feral Cat Advocacy Terms
• TNR Identification Protocol - Eartipping

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Starting a TNR Program

• Reduce Your Euthanasia Rate: How to Adopt Nonlethal Control for Stray and Feral Cats at Your Shelter or Animal Services Facility
• TNR: How Neighborhoods and Communities Can Stop Feral Feline Overpopulation
• The Humane Solution: Reducing Feral Cat Populations with Trap-Neuter-Return

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• Humane Trapping Instructions for Feral Cats
• Selection of Traps and Equipment
• Trap-Neuter-Return: A Humane Approach to Feral Cat Control video clips online

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Citizens Concerns and Complaints about Outdoor Cats

• How to Live With Cats in Your Neighborhood - Addresses common issues and provides quick solutions and household deterrents that will help keep neighbors happy. (Also available in brochure form in our Marketplace)
• Mediation - Cat Welfare Society
• How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone about TNR
• NMHP forum question: What to do when people threaten caregivers

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Scientific Studies

• Addressing “The Wisconsin Study” - written by Laurie D. Goldstein with assistance from Christine L. O’Keefe, PhD and Heidi L. Bickel
• Building the Body of Scientific Evidence that TNR Works – summarizes five scientific studies
• Plight of the Vanishing Songbirds - Defenders of Wildlife

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Issues Surrounding Feral Cats (Policies/Positions)

Wildlife Issues

• Understanding Cats & Predation
• An Assault on Stray and Feral Cats
• Feral Cats on the Firing Line: For all the Talk of Cat Predation, Science Exonerates our Feral Friends - San Francisco SPCA
• Plight of the Vanishing Songbirds - Defenders of Wildlife
• Addressing “The Wisconsin Study” - written by Laurie D. Goldstein with assistance from Christine L. O’Keefe, PhD and Heidi L. Bickel

Licensing

• Does Cat Licensing Work?
• Against Mandatory Cat Licensing Position Statement - San Francisco SPCA

Releasing Feral Cats Instead of Adopting Them

• Why Trap-Neuter-Return is the Solution to Feral Cat Overpopulation—And Trap-Neuter-Adopt is Not

Rabies

• Rabies Control and Feral Cats in the US

Sanctuaries

• The Fight Over Ferals

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Additional Resources

• Volunteers: Getting Ready for Them, Finding Them, Keeping Them - Best Friends Animal Society

• A Guidebook To Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinics – Spay USA
• Spay Day packet - Your Complete Guide to Organizing Spay/Neuter Clinics for Feral Cats

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