Taking proactive steps, like educating your neighbors
about community cats and Trap - Neuter - Return, can be helpful in avoiding
complaints and violent threats.
This may explain the reduction in
complaints about cats reported by some shelters concurrent with the implementation of
community TNR programs (Hughes 2002).
- loaning traps - offering easy - to - follow trapping instructions - providing below - cost and sometimes free spays / neuters / vaccines for
community cats at our LifeLine Spay & Neuter Clinics - educating the public
about community cats - advising how to affectively manage
cat colonies - offering solutions to help mediate neighbor
complaints - supporting trappers throughout trapping process and the throughout the life of the colony - helping connect people with others interested in helping
community cats in their area and fostering the growth of grassroots efforts in neighborhoods throughout the 20 county metro area - giving referrals for
community cat resources throughout the metro area