No Nonsense Neutering

12/26/2024

2025 LUZERNE County TNR municipal programs

NEW in 2025: Boroughs of Factoryville and WEST Pittston. Newport Township.

Other participating LUZERNE municipalities:
Boroughs of Dallas, Duryea, Edwardsville, Forty Fort, Kingston, Laflin, Nescopeck, Plymouth, Swoyersville, WEST Hazleton.

City of Nanticoke (has a $15copay)

Townships of Bear Creek and Exeter

To participate you must live or pay taxes in the municipality.
To get vouchers, you must have appointments scheduled at NNN before you pick up vouchers.
Go to website www.nnnlv.org, click on Book Now. Feral cats are scheduled as LIONS. If you do not know the s*x, put female, black, 1 yr old and 8 lbs.
If nothing is showing as available, keep checking DAILY.
Vouchers available at the municipal building

TNR requires a plan: Appointments, traps and trap training before the actual date of surgery.
Loaner traps are available at Plains clinic 1 week before our appointments to do trap training.

Welcome to the new municipalities! PURRS

12/12/2024

GOOD NEWS!!! ATTENTION UPDATE! KINGSTON Borough has SIGNED a 2025 TNR contract.
The residents of Kingston will be able to use Kingston Borough vouchers in 2025. You will need to get NEW vouchers. please discard any that have been issued that appear to be photocopied and have handwritten numbers on them. They are void and will not be accepted.

To qualify:
You must live in the Borough of Kingston. If you are trapping for a resident you must bring ID for that resident. All vouchers will have the name/address of the Kingston resident. Not the trappers name.

You MUST have appointments at NNN before they will be issued.

No more than 3 vouchers will be issued for a resident/trapper at one time. You can come back for 3 more when you have established more appts at NNN.

Many thanks to Sondra, The Borough Manager for expediting this TNR program!

12/06/2024

NEW 2025 municipality TNR programs

WELCOME Newport Township in Luzerne County and Mt Carmel TOWNSHIP in Northumberland County (Mt Carmel Borough has a program in place)

To participate:
You must reside in the municipality
You must get appointments at NNN
Go to the municipal building to get vouchers with ID (3 at a time)

Thanks to the Supervisors of both Townships for making this program possible for their residents!

PURRS

12/01/2024

IMPORTANT- TRAPPERS and colony caretakers with TNR appointments this week

NORTHEAST PA will be experiencing SUBfreezing temps this week. If you do NOT plan to trap. please contact our scheduling teams:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Stay warm and PURRS

11/29/2024

ALERT!
2025 January spay-neuter scheduling will begin on Sunday December 1. Please visit www.nnnlv.org and click on Fees and services for details. Then click "Book Now". Please read the instructions before scheduling.

Feral cats are scheduled as LIONS.

Purrs and bow wow!

11/25/2024

💜💜Tuesday, December 2 is 💜💜
In 2024, NNN issued 100 vouchers, totaling $2,500, to the community for discounted TNR spay/neuter services. We need your support to keep this program going in 2025! 🐈🐈🐈

In 2024, No Nonsense Neutering issued 100 vouchers, totaling

11/15/2024

2025 Municipal TNR: WELCOME Borough of Alburtis! Vouchers for residents will be available at the municipal building in December.

*To qualify you must be a resident of the BOROUGH and provide ID that you reside there.
* You must have appointments at NNN. The Borough will issue no more than 3 at a time with the option of more with additional appointments.

Many thanks to Steve the Borough Manager and to Council for approving this very important program! PURRS

11/07/2024

2025 MUNICIPAL TNR programs

NNN is starting to receive 2025 TNR contracts. As they come in, we are posting them on our website: Community Cats/Feral cat financial resources page. They are listed by county in alphabetical order.

Currently we welcome 2 NEW municipalities participating: Factoryville Borough and Newport Township. Vouchers will be available in December. PURRS!

Keep checking as we add new ones every day

10/13/2024

National Veterinary Technician Week is here!! 🐾💜

Our vet techs play a crucial role in our veterinary team at NNN. They work alongside our veterinarians to assist in surgeries, monitor your pets postoperatively, do bloodwork, administer medications, and educate owners and trappers about the proper care for their pets after surgery. Their dedication is endless. National Vet Tech Week is an opportunity to honor and appreciate our veterinary technicians dedication, hard work, and expertise. 🐶

During this week (October 13-19th), we celebrate and express our appreciation for the incredible value they bring to No Nonsense Neutering. We couldn’t do it without each and every one of them 🐱

PS. EVERY vet tech loves snacks 😉

09/27/2024

2024 cat transport summary

324 pets
148 ferals

The goal of the cat transport is to provide affordable spay/neuter options for communities. Our primary focus was on Schuylkill, Northumberland and Columbia counties but also Wyoming and Lackawanna.

The truck and its volunteers are coming out of Allentown so it's a very early day to reach most of these transport locations by 7am. And to make it back to the surgery clinic for preop checks and to start surgery, the locations need to be within an hour of the designated clinic. We want your cats awake for the ride back to you at 5pm.

Our truck holds 30 cats, typically space allotted for 20 pets and 10 ferals. We have been flexible with those numbers, but due to the difficulty in TNR there is a 30-40% no show rate so that's why we dont schedule more than 10 ferals per truck.
NNN added a couple of locations this year, and we deleted a couple due to low interest, meaning less than 10 cats.

Fun names: Lint Licker, Smudge, Hell Cat, Pinky Toes, Bustamove
#1 female cat name: Sophie
#1 male cat name: Max

What we learned: Tough to do this when its dark so we are adjusting our starting and ending weeks so that its daylight at 7am.
Our volunteers started requesting that people stay in their cars so that they could check the carriers because many carriers had clips missing. For safety reasons, our volunteers used zip ties to secure the carriers (and a few traps) before walking them across the parking lot to the truck.

We want to thank all businesses, shelters and municipalities that allowed us to use parking lots. We appreciate your support!

Thank you to our awesome scheduler Cheyenne who juggles a lot of balls and keeps them in the air!
Thank you to our vet teams who are delivering quality care for this program.
Thank you to our donors who help support this program.
And a BIG thank you to Martha and Ron who see firsthand the benefits of the transport. They report how much they have enjoyed meeting all of you and how appreciative you are of this service.

Our only means to market this program is here on Facebook so we rely on you the public to share the details within your community.
Share the post, create fliers and post around your community.
Follow NNN on Facebook to get alerts about 2025. Dates/locations will be announced in early February.

PURRS!

09/26/2024

Full truck yesterday in Bloomsburg and it was the last transport of the year. A big thanks to the Bloomsburg Fire Hall for hosting us in their parking lot this year.
Thanks to all who participated yesterday and NNN will return in the spring.

Announcements for the first transports of 2025 will be made in January so follow us on Facebook to get the alerts.

PURRS

09/24/2024

Good morning Bloomsburg! See you bright and early tomorrow 7am-730am for cat pick up at the Bloomsburg Fire Hall 911 Market St.

PETS:
*No food after midnight, water is fine
*Must come in a hard sided carrier only, lined with a towel and labelled with your name/phone number. Please check that all carrier clips are secure and in place
*Please stay in your car to allow our volunteers to assist you

FERALS:
*Must come in an adult sized trap-no kitten/squirrel traps, carriers or dog crates and cover them with a sheet or towel to lower stress
*If possible, label the top of the trap with your name.
*Please bring your traps to the back of the truck for assistance.
*Please call or text 610-737-7490 if you are unable to trap your cat/s.

See you soon! PURRS

09/14/2024

Good morning! Bloomsburg PA cat transport (September 25) is currently filled with both pets and ferals.

See you soon! PURRS

09/12/2024

Great cat transport in Pottsville! Thanks to all who participated. We will be back in the spring 2025. Many thanks to KFC restaurant for the use their parking lot. PURRS

09/10/2024

Good morning Pottsville! See you bright and early tomorrow 7am-730am for pickup at the KFC restaurant 419 Claude A Lord Bvld.

PETS:
*No food after midnight, water is fine
*Must come in a hard sided carrier only, lined with a towel and labelled with your name/phone number. Please check that all clips are secure and in place
*Please stay in your car to allow our volunteers to assist you
FERALS:
*Must come in an adult sized trap-no kitten/squirrel traps, carriers or dog crates and cover them with a sheet or towel to lower stress
*If possible, label the top of the trap with your name.
*Please call or text 610-737-7490 if you are unable to trap your cat/s.

See you soon! PURRS

09/05/2024

Great transport today in Carbondale. Thanks to the city for use of the parking lot. Thank you Nicole Lombardi for creating the flier. See you next spring! Purrs

09/04/2024

Good morning Carbondale and surrounding communities! See you bright and early tomorrow morning at 7am-730am for cat transport. Remember no food after midnight, water is fine.

Location: Carbondale Train Station Mill St and Trinity Place.
Please park as close to our truck as possible. There are 2 school bus pickups with parents using the same parking lot.
Return at 5pm same day.

PETS: Please stay in your car to allow our volunteers to assist you.
TRAPS can be brought to the back of the truck for check-in.

Pet cats must come in a hard sided plastic carrier lined with a towel and labeled with your name. No soft sides, backpacks or dog crates.

Feral cats ($40 or voucher) must come in an ADULT sized humane trap- no kitten/squirrel traps, carriers or dog crates covered with a sheet to lower stress. If possible, try to label your trap with your name.

Trappers: If you are unlucky getting your cat/s, please call or text 610-737-7490 so that we are not waiting for you.

We leave promptly at 730am to drive to our Plains clinic.

See you soon PURRS

08/28/2024

Great transport today in Pottstown. Many thanks to the city of Pottstown for the use of the park. Thanks to all who participated. Purrs