TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return)

Open Sands Kitty Rescue is dedicated primarily to the prevention of homeless cats in Panama City Beach

We are a 501c3 Non profit organization assisting in the surgical cost of spaying or neutering a cat or dog for Michigan residents that receive state or federal aid. We also have a branch of Spay Neuter Assistance Program of Michigan, with some pets available for adoption. We foster in our homes. All of our pets are Spayed or Neutered, up to date on vaccinations. Cats are tested for felv/FIV, dogs are tested for heart worm.

Shady’s Paw Animal Rescue works to improve the lives of cats and the people who care for them in Lake Holiday and the surrounding areas through: TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) and Colony Management Fostering and Adoptions Educating the public on best practices for feline care in the home or colony setting Supporting the needs of cats in the communities we serve.

The Somerset-Pulaski County Humane Society has a multi-faceted mission, focusing on the areas of: Prevention of animal cruelty Community education regarding proper care and treatment of animals Promotion of spay/neuter programs Encouragement of pro-animal legislation Pet Rescue & Adoption

As a foster–based 501(c)(3) non-profit, Chesapeake Rescue Alliance protects animals in the Chesapeake Bay area and beyond. We connect animals in need to safe homes and facilitate their access to quality veterinary care. The rescue also provides foster, adoption, mandatory spay/neuter, trap-neuter-return, education and outreach services to support the well-being of animals within the community at-large. This organization emphasizes transparency and integrity while providing educational resources to support the humane treatment of animals.

We started by helping with feral cats in our neighborhood and after we moved to the suburbs we wanted a way to help cats in the area by helping get ferals neutered and helping friendlies get placed in homes. We also offer ferals that cannot return to their original location to area barns.

We live and work in a rural, low-income, under-educated VA county. Animals are held in low esteem here. There are hundreds of community and feral cat colonies. The populations are controlled by starvation, illness, and predator's (both human and animal). There are also hundreds of low-income residents who do not spay/neuter their pets. This generates hundreds of unwanted animals. We help homeless, abused, and unwanted cats and kittens by providing foster care, socialization, veterinary care, and adoption services. We may partner with other animal welfare organizations to address the needs of our feline rescues. We are a small home-based organization. Cats and kittens are cared for in foster homes. All donations go to our cats and kittens. Our goal is to accept all rescue requests. We fully vet (spay/neuter, vaccinate, deworm, FeLk/FIV test, and provide regular applications of preventative for fleas, ear mites, roundworm, hookworm, heartworm) microchip, and rehome via adoptions. We average more than 250 adoptions per year. Go to VA805.PetFinder.org to view some of our currently adoptable cats and kittens. We do it because we can't turn our backs to the inhumanity and the suffering and to support those who struggle to care for colonies but lack the financial resources to do so.

We are trying to eliminate the suffering of cats in this state. Our primary objective is to TNR, but have found ourselves spending more time caring for cats that no longer have homes. So we are also a sanctuary. We have not adopted out even one cat since we started.

Safe Pet Project, a nonprofit, volunteer run organization offers our mountain community information, resources and services addressing the many needs of area pets. With input from local animal advocates regarding the most pressing needs of our animals Safe Pet Project has decided to provide low cost pet ID tags, free microchipping, financial assistance for low income families, spaying/neutering of cats and dogs, TNR, find homes for animals and any other service needed. We want to make sure the pets in our community are safe and healthy.

Ocean Hill Cats’ goal is to humanely and safely reduce the huge overpopulation of stray and feral cats living on the streets and increase the quality of life of those who stay outside. Female kittens can get pregnant as early as at 4 months old and have 4-5 litters per year! That means most kittens don’t make it, and the ones that do are forced to fight for food, territory, mates… and repeat the cycle. We do our part by participating in trap, neuter, return (TNR) program – we use humane traps to catch feral cats and take them to the vet. They get fixed (spayed or neutered), vaccinated, flea treated, dewormed and returned outdoors to the same spot where they were trapped. Each returned cat gets an “ear tip” (a tiny tip of their ear is removed during spay/neuter surgery) to communicate to other rescuers that they’re already fixed, and don’t need to be trapped again. After the release, we coordinate ongoing care (food, water, shelter) for the community cats by tending to the cat colonies ourselves or working with volunteers. If the street cats within our care get sick or injured, we take them in and ensure they get appropriate veterinary care. Where needed and/or possible, we will do our best to find homes for street cats - for example friendly community cats living in dangerous locations, sick cats who can’t survive outside or abandoned pets. We also support low-income and vulnerable residents who own cats as pets by facilitating access (scheduling, transport, recovery) to low-cost veterinary & spay/neuter appointments. We also work on raising awareness about cat overpopulation in Brooklyn via social media and in person conversations with neighbors.