Part of Ireland's TNR Manual
How to Help Community Cats
A teacher at the high school, your boss, the clerk at the grocery store - people all over the country care for outdoor cats every day. Like them, you’ve discovered cats in your community, and you want to help them.
TNR Manual for Ireland
Our TNR Manual for Ireland, a Best Practice handbook, is designed to be brief and portable, with the bulk of the supporting information easily accessible onlineTNR not TNA
Why it’s Trap Neuter Return NOT Trap Neuter AdoptScientific Evidence
Learn more about the scientific evidence supporting Trap Neuter ReturnTNR Training
A variety of TNR Workshops and Information Evenings, adapted to suit your needs, wherever you areTNR Volunteers
If you’re looking for someone to help you out with your feral colony, check here for those available in your areaFeral Cats
Millions of cats who make their home outdoors are known as feral cats.
Feral cats are domestic cats. Like pet cats and stray cats. The difference is that feral cats are not socialised to people, and so they are wary of us and cannot be adopted. They have a home - the outdoors.
And, there is a simple way you can help them: Trap Neuter Return. This program ends reproduction, stabilizes colony populations, and improves cats’ lives. The behaviours and stresses associated with mating - pregnancy, yowling, spraying, and fighting - stop. And there are no new litters of kittens.
Trap Neuter Return (TNR)
Trap Neuter Return (TNR) (aka Trap Neuter Release) is becoming recognised as an efficient and cost-effective tool for controlling and reducing feral cat populations. The concept is simple - trap the cats, spay or neuter and eartip them, then return those cats to the colony/area where they were found. As the cats can no longer reproduce, the colony diminishes in size over time. Additionally, by reducing or eliminating mating, the behaviour of unsterilized animals that includes fighting and wandering (looking for mates) is eliminated.
TNR not only controls the unchecked growth of unsterilized animals, it improves the health, behaviour and quality of life of the affected animals.
Benefits of TNR include
- Smaller feral cat colonies
- Fewer public nuisance problems
- Decreased shelter kill rates
- Lower animal control costs
- Improved lives for stray and feral cats.
