TNR Program
You have a group or colony of cats that you've been feeding. Perhaps they are living in the woods close to you where you work, or hanging out behind a local restaurant, or have taken up residence beneath a neighbor's porch. Clearly they need to be spayed or neutered.
What is TNR?
TNR is short for Trap / Spay or Neuter / Return. TNR is a full management program in which stray and feral cats already living outdoors are humanely trapped, then evaluated, vaccinated, and sterilized by veterinarians. Healthy adults will be placed back into their original environment or home, as long as they receive life-long care or a reliable food source. Sometimes, kittens over 4 weeks of age can be fostered and socialized for future adoption. Likewise, the occasional tame adult may be relocated, when possible.
Benefits of TNR
Studies have proven that trap-neuter-release is the single most successful method of stabilizing and maintaining healthy feral cat colonies with the least possible cost to local governments and residents, while providing the best life for the animals themselves.
Our TNR Program
We need your help in identifying where these pockets of cats exist and in spreading the word about the benefits of TNR. Spaying/neutering homeless cats will stabilize the population at manageable levels, help the people who care for their welfare, and foster compassion in their neighborhoods.
By making sure these cats can't have kittens, you'll have the peace of mind that his or her offspring won't be euthanized in an animal shelter or suffer unnecessarily on their own due to starvation or maltreatment.
Spring 2011 Update
Well, Culpeper - Trap-Neuter-Return has really caught on...our fourth year hopes to bring more relief to those requesting our services for feral cats. We also want to thank the Culpeper Animal Shelter for referring their clients with lots of kitties to us! Keeping up the momentum...
Winter 2010 Update
We'd like to thank PEOPLE FOR PETS FOUNDATION and their contribution to the TNR or Trap-Neuter-Return program. They graciously shared proceeds from their fall fundraiser last year.
We also would like to acknowledge Charles & Kathleen Snyder of Culpeper, who have been contributing for over a year to this vital effort. To add to that list, Vince and Claudia Beasley of Locust Grove also gave generously this past holiday season to help spay/neuter more cats in the area.
Funds of this kind were also used to help put together winter shelters for some of our local cat colonies.
End of 2009 Message
Another year of TNR passes- going on the third and hoping to make even more of a difference next year.
The problem in Culpeper and surrounding counties is grave...and that is no exaggeration.
Most can agree on that - let's hope more help will be available and more will be done.
Please take a moment to view this short video on the benefits of Trap-Neuter-Return: