What Is TNR?

Trap, Neuter, Return – is the most humane method of managing feral cat overpopulation and improving the quality of life for feral felines. TNR has been practiced in Europe and the US for several decades. Research, as well as anecdotal evidence, indicates that it offers many advantages over the more traditional method of feral cat “control” – euthanasia.

Removing and euthanizing community cats, or moving cat colonies, does not reduce feral cat populations. Instead, it provides space for more cats to move in and begin the breeding process again. Unspayed outdoor female cats spend most of their lives pregnant and hungry. Unneutered tomcats roam to find – and fight to win – mates and often suffer debilitating wounds in the process. And, within their first year, half of all kittens born in feral colonies die.

Paws Patrol believes TNR is the solution which leads to colony stability in the short-term and gradual colony reduction