Protecting Community Cats Stories

Best Friends partners with Osceola County Animal Services (OCAS) in Florida on trap-neuter-return (TNR) program to save stray and feral cats.

The shelter save rate for cats in Harris County, Texas, climbs dramatically with implementation of community cat, kitten foster and other strategies.

Two formerly stray kittens with FeLV beat the odds and celebrate their first birthday. Learn about feline leukemia in kittens.

Go behind the scenes with Best Friends staffers as they share notes from the field about their feral cat program work and TNR for community cats.

Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) provides trap-neuter-return for community cats in Maryland. Read about the success of TNR programs.

Rapper Sterling Davis (the 'Trap King') is a TNR advocate and trapper in Atlanta, founding Trap King Humane Solutions to help the city's cats.

Best Friends supports shelters, rescues and spay-neuter clinics with grants and more to increase the save rate for community cats (stray and ferals).

See photos of the cats and kittens who are part of a TNR project in central Utah to prevent them from ending up in the Sevier County Animal Shelter.

Peter Wolf of Best Friends Animal Society answers FAQs about community cat programs, trap-neuter-return, and common misconceptions about TNR.

Best Friends' new shelter outreach program provides training and support to animal shelters around the country so they can save more animals.

Free-roaming cats in Atlanta are adopted out as barn cats to control rodent populations. The felines also thrive in breweries, garages and warehouses.

Partnership between Best Friends in Los Angeles and the Paw Mission saves ‘working cats' who provide mouse control in barns, garages and warehouses.

Susan and David Trussell are feral cat colony caregivers in Ogden, Utah, and Best Friends volunteers in Salt Lake City who teach about outdoor cat care.

Kentucky Humane Society SNIP Clinic reduces the number of pets surrendered to Louisville Metro Animal Services by providing spay and neuter services.

Caring for stray cats in winter is a priority of Best Friends in Salt Lake City, which provides spay neuter, donated food and outdoor cat shelters.