IHA has collaborated with nearby communities to help them with TNR, and even runs
a TNR transport program to serve cats in remote communities without clinics of their own.
Not exact matches
Trap and
transport cats to established
TNR programs, return feral cats to their colonies, and provide food and winter shelters to caretakers.
Whenever she can, Lindsey volunteers with
TNR programs (Trap - Neuter - Return), in which feral cats are humanely trapped,
transported to a veterinary clinic where they are spayed or neutered, then returned to their outdoor home.
Important roles include:
transporting animals between shelters / vet hospitals, working in an SPCA Thrift Store, participating in adoption events and fundraisers and assisting in the collaborative Trap Neuter Return (
TNR)
program for feral cats.
Revisit means they would like to end successful
TNR programs that control the cat population, and instead
transport the cats to adoption facilities in the D.C. area.
Trap - Neuter - Return (
TNR) is a
program through which free - roaming feral cats (community cats) are humanely trapped,
transported to a veterinarian where they are sterilized, rabies vaccinated, left ear - tipped and returned to the outdoor locations where they were found.
In traditional trap - neuter - return (
TNR)
programs, community cats are trapped and
transported directly to a spay / neuter clinic, where they are sterilized, vaccinated, and ear - tipped for identification.
If your shelter can't afford to sponsor its own
TNR program right now, you can consider partnering with private community cat protection groups that can cover some or all of the cost of
TNR and use volunteers to trap and
transport cats.
Through the
TNR Program, cats are caught in humane live traps (available for rent) by the caretaker or FVHA's staff and then
transported to the shelter.