Mission: Promote adoption of Trap Neuter Return as the preferred
strategy for humanely managing and reducing free-roaming cat
populations in south central Pennsylvania.

Organizational Goal:  Reduce existing unaltered free-roaming
domestic feline populations by 80 percent in south central
Pennsylvania by 2022.

Email:  contact@nobodyscats.org
Nobody’s cats are everybody’s cats.
Strategies & Resources:
TNR improves the lives of free-roaming cats and reduces their numbers. At a minimum, cats are spayed or
neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and surgically ear-tipped for identification before being returned to
their outdoor home. Caretakers feed and provide shelter, monitor the colony, and remove new cats for TNR
or adoption. If implemented properly, TNR WORKS!

This strategy has been endorsed by many respected bodies including:

     And hundreds of state, regional and local governmental agencies and animal-welfare organizations all
around the country including, in our own neighborhood, the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services,
the New Jersey Governor’s Task Force on Animal Welfare, and Governor Jon Corzine’s Environmental
Policy Transition Team; the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC Animals; and the Richmond (Va.) SPCA.

These endorsements are supported by two surveys:

  •     In February and March 2007, a professional survey research company conducted a representative
    telephone survey of Ohio residents 18 years and older. Seventy-seven percent agreed that “Trap-
    neuter-return programs are a good way to manage freeroaming cats.”

  •    Harris Interactive, which conducts the well-known Harris Poll, surveyed a nationally
    representative sample of 1,205 adults in April and May 2007. When asked “If you saw a stray cat in
    your community and could only choose between two courses of action—leaving the cat where it is
    outside or having the cat caught and then put down—which would you consider to be the more
    humane option for the cat?” 81 percent chose leaving the cat outside. In addition, when asked “If you
    knew that the stray cat you saw would die in two years because it would be hit by a car, which would
    you consider the most humane option today?” 72 percent chose “Leave the cat where it is and let it
    live,” versus 21 percent who chose “Have the cat put down.”

Check out information on scientific studies supporting the use if TNR to reduce domestic feline
overpopulation:

Evaluation of the effect of a long-term trap-neuter-return and adoption program on a free-roaming cat
population: http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2003.222.42

Use of matrix population models to estimate the efficacy of euthanasia versus trap-neuter-return for
management of free-roaming cats: http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.
2004.225.1871

Characteristics of free-roaming cats evaluated in a trap-neuter-return program: http://avmajournals.avma.
org/doi/pdf/10.2460/javma.2002.221.1136

Analysis of the impact of trap-neuter-return programs on populations of feral cats: http://avmajournals.
avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2005.227.1775

Population characteristics of feral cats admitted to seven trap-neuter-return programs in the United States:
http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/8/4/279.short

Analyzing approaches to feral cat management – one size does not fit all: http://www.avma.
org/avmacollections/feral_cats/javma_225_9_1361.pdf

More data is being collected every day to support the use of TNR. Although there are those who do not
support TNR as the primary strategy for reducing populations of free-roaming cats, their opinions do not
reflect adequate understanding and experience in this regard.

      
The Nobody's Cats Foundation, PO Box 725, New Cumberland, PA 17070-0725
Why TNR Works

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