What Is TNR? A Caretaker’s Guide to Trap-Neuter-Return
How Trap-Neuter-Return works, step by step, from feeding schedule to return, and what to have ready before trapping day.
Where your gift goes
From the field to the clinic and back home
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Humane trapping
Caretakers and volunteers set covered humane traps and check them often. The 10% share keeps traps and trapping fuel on hand.
Photo: Akire gatuna, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Licensed surgery
Spay/neuter, rabies vaccine and a left ear-tip at partner clinics in Olean & Salamanca. The 90% pays the clinic directly.
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Return & care
Cats go home to their colony, where caretakers feed and shelter them, and the colony stops growing.
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