11/24/2025
TNR (Trap–Neuter–Return) is one of the most compassionate, evidence-based, and effective programs we have, to protect community cats and protect shelter space for the animals who truly need it.
Every cat in a trap represents prevention, not punishment.
Every altered and released cat represents one less life ever entering a shelter to be killed.
Every volunteer, transporter, feeder, and donor represents a hero who chose kindness over convenience.
TNR is not “cruel.”
What’s cruel is allowing entire colonies to breed unchecked, forcing kittens to die outside or funneling them into overcrowded shelters where they won’t survive intake. What’s cruel is pretending that killing outdoor cats “solves” anything. It never has - and never will.
Here’s the truth the kill-apologists avoid at all costs:
Community cats exist because humans created the conditions for them.
TNR corrects those conditions humanely, ethically, and sustainably.
✔ TNR stops the cycle of births
✔ TNR calms colony behavior (less fighting, roaming, spraying, and noise)
✔ TNR protects wildlife more effectively than lethal control
✔ TNR saves taxpayer dollars
✔ TNR reduces shelter intake and increases save rates
✔ TNR is the ONLY method proven worldwide to bring outdoor cat numbers down
And most importantly:
TNR respects life.
Every cat in this album has a story:
The volunteers who lost sleep to monitor traps…
The transporters who drove across town before dawn…
The vet team who altered, vaccinated, and treated them with dignity…
The person who brought them safely home and opened that trap door so they could step out into their territory—fixed, protected, and free from the cycle that created them.
If you participated, if you shared, if you donated, if you supported - you saved lives today.
Not just the lives you see here, but the hundreds of lives that will never be born only to suffer or die unseen.
TNR isn’t just a program.
It’s an act of love.
And it works because of people like you.
TEAMWORK!!
Thank you,
We love you all !🫶😻🙌
Titos Cat Rescue
