Be Kind TNR

04/14/2025

We have been quiet lately. Mainly because we are running around like crazy getting new place ready. I make stupid decisions like I want a new toilet in the guest bathroom. It's out for flooring so might as well replace it. Easier than cleaning it. Any tips on picking out a new toilet besides cheaper are appreciated. We are actively packing to move. We are still trapping cats last week we fixed 11 cats. We slowed down for the move. We already fixed one this week 6 more sitting in traps for tomorrow. Might be 7 there is a pregnant someone just left with a trap for. It's hard to slow down when everyone is pregnant. We helped another trapper pay for a unexpected eye removal.

03/22/2025

If you can't feed the kittens you had last year and you said just keep them. You hid cats from us so we can't fix them all and when neighbors are texting there is a pregnant one and we text and ask do you have a pregnant and you say yes she is fine. That gives us energy to text all the neighbors to be on the lookout and grab and lock your cats up and load up traps. If she is sick like the neighbors say she is going to shelter if healthy and just pregnant we will fix and release. Have a awesome day.

03/18/2025

This year we have already helped 3 community cats with leg removals. We always shop around for the best price. I normally have a surgeon that cat do it within a week. Neo was posted on next door as dragging his leg I never saw the post another trapper did and a trapper closer to him went and trapped. He got into the SPCA feral clinic and with all the pregnants they did not have time to remove the leg so they neutered him gave him a convina shot and cleaned it up so they could find a place to remove it. Shelters are not places for a feral cat that needs a leg removal it's loud it's scary and the risk of getting sick is great because of the stress. Neo got his leg removed Thursday he is doing good with recovery. We just need to replace the money we spent so we can help the next one because unfortunately there will be a next one.

03/18/2025

I started doing TNR because I was so tired of seeing all the sick kittens and no one doing anything about it. I saw rescues just take kittens and not fix the moms. Those rescues failed the moms. We have to do better.

03/16/2025

If you are going to get kittens you better get the mom. Stop the cycle and fix the mom. We used the kittens as bait with warmers underneath them to keep them warm. There were 4 kittens one will be taken to get cremated it was found cold and it was already to late. Thank you Kitten Central for intaking.

03/07/2025

We do not advocate letting pregnant cats have kittens. There's no guarantee those kittens are going to be healthy and are going to make it. There's no guarantee that Mom will make it through the delivery. And if the kittens do make it they will be taking up spay and neuter spots for kittens and cats already born. And that will lead too more kittens and cats being born because those kittens did not get fixed. There is a shortage of affordable spay and neuter appointments. Letting more kittens be born is not the right thing to do. There are not enough quality homes for the ones already born.

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03/07/2025

Walking out back with someone tonight I saw this cat. It's not my cat. I have seen it around the neighborhood. He eats in my driveway sometimes I have caught it on camera. We have set traps, we have seen him across the street it's not their cat either. Before we move he will have a ear tip and the new ones I have seen down the street will have ear tips. He is cute he will be fixed. I have no place for him to go. I have places lined up for my cats outback he is not in any of the 3 groups. He is normally across the street.

03/07/2025

What is so special about this cat. It's the last cat in a colony. Omg she has tried for 2 weeks to catch the last cat. She sits on the porch with a water bottle and string it's the only place she feeds right now is inside a trap. She ended up taking a nap today with with string in hand woke up and who does she see in the trap eating. She yanked that string and messaged me. The trapper had no clue what she was doing when she started. She does now. So exciting bro see the last cat in a colony. When I started trapping all our colonies in this area were 50 and over the colonies are getting smaller now. We need to keep trapping to get the colonies smaller and smaller.

03/03/2025

Here's the Elkhorn Women of The Moose Monday night Dinner menu for the month of March 2025. Bring your appetites and help support our local TNR group. Dinners are generally served 6 - 7:30 pm. Open to all members in good standing and qualified guests. Donations are $10.
*** St. Patrick's day dinner will be served starting at 3pm till we run out.

03/01/2025

Yesterday we took 5 cats to clinic. 4 females one we found out was already spayed the other 3 where in heat. And one bouncing baby boy that was 11 pounds. Today we took Momma thumbs to get her leg removed. She will recover with me for a few days. Momma thumbs has a horrible story we have known about this cat for years. We got all the other cars fixed then the person said she could not catch her in her house. The trapper tried and tried blocked on social media , no return calls and no answer at the door. She was always being thought of. One day we would get and get her spayed and her leg removed. Eviction happened and when maintenance workers went in the smell was horrible every door and window opened not knowing others were scared cats hiding in there. They escaped luckily there are good feeder and colony caregivers there. She was finally caught we have been holding her since December looking for a appointment. Today was her lucky day. No more dragging the foot. No more checking it for sores.

02/21/2025

I have been taking a class one of the biggest things I am taking out of it. Is we need to fix the cats in people's homes. Why because when the cats start having behavior issues because they are not fixed they toss them outside to become part of the problem. The unfixed cats in people's homes become free kittens adopted to people to be later tossed outside to make more kittens. This is one reason we are trapping so many finding so many tame cats in our colonies. The shelters are failing the cats. When someone brings a cat to the shelter they turn them away. Do they scan them for a microchip. In my experience they do not. They tell you to put it back. They do not look to see if it is fixed or not. They do not tell you here are places you can try to get them fixed. You bring in a box of kittens do they ask where is Mom. Mom needs to fixed otherwise mom will just make more kittens. Do they give you any education. When shelters tell the general public to put cats and kittens back unfixed they are part of the problem. Foster to adopt unfixed kittens is wrong. The shelters don't get them fixed before they are breeding age. They had no problem sending home 3 month old kittens that are brother and sister with a 3 month or more wait time to get them fixed. That's a really really big flipping problem. I am at a loss for how to change the shelters. Because they think they are right and the directors have degrees one thing I can tell is degrees don't give you common sense. It just gives you book smarts and common sense goes a long way in life. We need change in our shelters and we need more common sense in our shelters. We need animals to come out of our shelters spayed and neutered. No more accidental litters because of the shelters failing the animals. No more returning found dogs for the 5th time still unfixed and no fines. We can keep educating the general public but when the shelters are undoing everything we do they are part of the problem. We need to keep moving forward and fixing the whole colony before we move to the next. Mass trapping targeted trapping and making sure the cats inside homes are fixed are the only way we are going to fix the problem. We cannot adopt our way out of this mess. We need to Spay and Neuter every animal to stop all the kittens and puppies. The shelters need to step up Spay and Neuter enforcement. They need to be out there educating the public about TNR when they get cat calls not telling them to stop feeding them. If that was a dog and we stopped feeding it we would get charged with animal cruelty. So why are cats different? I know I tend to say a lot some people won't agree with what I have to say. Some people might be defensive about what I have to say but that's normally because they know they should be doing more and better for the animals. It's their job it's what they get paid to do. They need to do it correctly. Cat lives matter.

02/21/2025

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02/14/2025

We Pulled Donna on 12/23 thinking she would be a Fospice dog as her previous owner had severely failed this Sweet Girl.
Well today the Vet says differently, Donna went in her for recheck from a mouth infection, and arthritis, with meds, good food the love of her foster mom she is doing amazing and the vet says the following..

Can you help us Keep Donna on her Arthritis Meds, and we need to add in glucosamine.

Per Vet "We need to get her some glucosamine. Dr Hendrie said she looks great. Is giving a Rx for a years worth of meds. She said thank you for getting foster mom another big dog"

Plus her dog good is not cheap and she eats alot.

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02/02/2025

As you All know Sara Williams has been super busy this past month doing extra stuff besides work and trapping. Sara has signed for a Community Cat Prgm Management and The Neighborhood Cats TNR Certification Workshop. Time consuming and a lot of work. These classes well help Sara’s impact in the community through sharing knowledge in public training sessions down the road.

Please be patient if she doesn't respond to your call, text or message right away.

Congratulations on passing your first class.❤️

01/25/2025

It's been super cold cats are burning calories and need extra food this time of year. Our food bin is almost empty. We also use a lot of the purple bag cat maintenance from Costco. I will work on our chewy list sometime today

01/21/2025

Ok everyone meet Bones. He is a community cat that found someone to take care of him. He was on my really long list of cats to get to. He jumped to the front of the line by getting hurt. His leg hurts he is in pain. He is very friendly with his family he adopted. He got fixed today and the leg looked at the report was not good. He will get X-rays to make sure we are making the right decision to remove the leg or fix the estimate is 1200.00. he is going to be moving inside the house now. Help us help him his appointment is Wednesday.