About Us

  • Community Outreach

    We strive to help the members of our 19th Ward Community by providing residents with resources and support for stray, feral and vulnerable cats through our TNVR program.

    We focus on educating and guiding residents to available services and programs in our area.

  • Neuter/Spay

    With the assistance of dedicated veterinarian partners, the Humane Society and related spay/neuter local programs, we provide much needed preventive health care and help to reduce the future population upon release.

  • Return-Rehome-Manage

    We remove adoptable cats and kittens from the streets and partner with local rescue groups, fosters, and shelters to find cats permanent homes with responsible guardians. 

    Feral cats are returned to maintained colonies healthier, stronger, unable to procreate and with diminished aggression toward their colony mates. They are often beneficial to the community by controlling the rodent population.

What is the TNVRM program for cats?

Trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVRM) is a humane, non-lethal alternative to the trap-and-kill method of attempting to manage community cat populations. TNVRM is a management technique in which community cats (aka ownerless, free-roaming outdoor cats) are humanely trapped and transported to a spay/neuter clinic, where they are evaluated and sterilized by a licensed veterinarian and received distemper and rabies vaccines.

The cats are also ear-tipped for identification.

Following recovery, the cats are returned to the location where they were humanely trapped to live out their lives.

TNVRM is a key component of a comprehensive community cat program along with community outreach and nuisance mitigation techniques. Community cat programs are the most humane and effective way to manage outdoor cat populations while also reducing their potential impacts on wildlife populations and public health.

What is Ear-tipping?

Ear-tipping is a surgical procedure performed during spay/neutering while the cat is still under anesthesia. A small part of a cat's left ear is removed. This identifies that it has been spayed or neutered. It's a safe, humane, and universally accepted way to identify community cats. 

Why is ear tipping done?

Ear tipping helps prevent feral cats from being trapped and anesthetized more than once.