With a feeding ban in place, Trap - Neuter - Return is impossible to carry out, and the cats continue to have
new litters of kittens.
It is possible to get to the root of the problem, too many unwanted animals and too
many litters of kittens and puppies.
You can help reduce the number of feral cats that give birth to
litters of kittens by supporting our Trap - Neuter - Return program.
Raising an
entire litter of kittens is expensive — once you add up medical costs, you can find yourself easily spending hundreds of dollars before those cats leave your door.
Unfortunately, many cats have at least one
litter of kittens before they are altered, thereby contributing to the serious problem of homeless pets.
And, because these cats are already spayed / neutered, the property owner won't have to worry about
endless litters of kittens appearing!
People feed and care for them, but they need to be fixed so that unwanted
litters of kittens do not end up in your neighborhood.
A minimum donation of $ 18 per animal, or $ 25
per litter of kittens, is requested to help offset the cost of care.
Our foster parents take in mom cats with a
recent litter of kittens or litters of stray kittens found without their mothers.
The facility has trapped / neutered / released many feral cats in the area, as well as rescued and adopted out
several litters of kittens and dogs.
It has been said that it may be beneficial to let your cat produce one
litter of kittens before she is spayed; however, this is not at all necessary.
In addition, if all the cats in a colony are not trapped, then the ones left behind will tend to have
larger litters of kittens.
Accordingly, finding homes
for litters of kittens shortly after they enter the shelter has... MORE a few major benefits:
Occasionally, Feral Kitty Trappers TNR's gets calls from people who have
found litters of kittens with no sign of the mother cat.
The cats / kittens may be too young to be adopted, in need of recovery time from an illness or injury, abused or abandoned cats / kittens who need socialization, kittens who need to be bottle fed, or homeless mommy cats
with litters of kittens.
Then six months later we'd
see litters of kittens coming in from those same areas where we'd trapped because we didn't connect with a particular feeder, so we might have missed them, or they didn't contact us about kittens or new cats that had shown up.»
Our veterinary clinic fixed 156 cats in just one business day, stopping the birth of hundreds
of litters of kittens for 2016.
Spaying a female cat is the only method to prevent
litters of kittens as well as potential health and behavioral problems for your cat.
Educate them on the benefits of Trap - Neuter - Vaccinate - Return (TNR): helps to stabilize and reduce the community cat population and eliminates common behaviors that are typically associated with mating (ie, yowling, fighting, and new
litters of kittens under porches).