In addition to the kitten nurseries, Best Friends also works to introduce trap, neuter, and return (TNR) programs to communities with feral or free - roaming cats who would not
survive in a shelter situation, as they are not adoptable.
The
situation was so dire, the Massachusetts Bay Colony lost about one third of its colonists
in the first winter, another third refused to stay and returned home to England, and the last third suffered more horrific losses before a high birth rate of nearly ten children per family and improving conditions of food and
shelter permitted the colony to
survive and expand its numbers exponentially.