Protecting Community Cats Stories

Stray cat complaints and concerns about birds at Lafreniere Park in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leads to creation of inclusive community TNR program.

Stray cat rescued off the streets was injured, scared and untrusting of people. She was adopted as a barn cat and is now living happily.

Teen helps strays by caring for free-roaming cats in need and trapping felines for trap neuter return. She plans to start her own TNR nonprofit.

Cats are no longer being killed in Cobb County (near Atlanta), Georgia, where a stray cat program has been implemented at the animal shelter.

Scared shelter cat acts unsocialized, so is put in the working cat program to be adopted as a rodent deterrent feline. He isn't truly feral though.

Available for streaming online, the ‘Feral Love' movie follows the lives of two stray cats. Read interview with TNR expert Peter Wolf about the film.

A stray tabby kitten, who is part of a TNR program in Arizona, has a badly injured rear leg that needs to be amputated but is now ready to be adopted.

Columbus Community Cats Project provides spay neuter and vaccines for stray cats in Georgia, making space at Animal Care and Control Center (ACCC).

The stray and feral cats of Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, Georgia, are receiving help in the form of a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program.

One cat, a former stray, befriends a reluctant cat who doesn't allow people to get too close to her. Both cats are FIV positive.

A program at Best Friends in Los Angeles is putting cats who might not otherwise be adopted to work providing rodent (mouse and rat) control.

Best Friends launches trap neuter return (TNR) program to help stray, feral, unowned outdoor felines in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

People come together to help a ‘feral' stray feline who tests positive for the feline immunodeficiency virus.

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Feral and stray cat colony caretaker volunteers her map-making skills to help cats in Las Vegas, Nevada.