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Please help us take control of the homeless animal population by making sure all your pets and neighborhood cats and dogs are altered. United Paws can provide trapping help, resources allowing, so please share this information with friends and neighbors. Together, we can make Tillamook County a terrific place for all animals to call home. To borrow a humane trap, email us at the link above.
TNR Basics
People around the world, from all walks of life, care for outdoor cats every day. Like them, you’ve discovered cats in your community, and you want to help them. The millions of cats who make their homes outdoors are called community cats. You may also hear them called feral cats, though not all unowned outdoor cats are feraL
Community cats are domestic cats—the same species as pet cats, Felis Catus. The difference is that community cats are unowned and generally not socialized to people, so they cannot be adopted. But community cats are not homeless. They have a home: the outdoors.
The best way you can help community cats is through TNR. TNR ensures no new kittens are born, stabilizes cat populations, provides vaccines, and improves cats’ lives. It also stops the behaviors and stresses associated with mating such as yowling, spraying, and fighting.
TNR is Mainstream
TNR is practiced across the United States and all over the world. It’s considered best practice and is sound public policy.
TNR is supported by all credible animal protection organizations including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), the National Animal Care and Control Association (NACA), as well as hundreds of TNR groups nationwide, and the countless individuals who carry out grassroots TNR programs.
Trap-Neuter-Return is the only humane and effective approach to community cat populations. Here are the three basic steps to this lifesaving process:
1. Trap: United Paws helps humanely trap all the cats in a colony, if possible. A colony is a group of cats living outdoors together.
2. Neuter (or spay): Once trapped, United Paws takes the cats in their traps to a veterinary clinic to be neutered, vaccinated, and ear tipped, which is the universal symbol of a neutered and vaccinated cat.
3. Return: After the cats recover, United Paws returns them to their outdoor home where they were trapped.
Watch videos of cats being returned and how to do Trap-Neuter-Return at youtube.com/AlleyCatAllies.
