TNR Texas

19/09/2025

This is a great time to collect styrofoam boxes, discarded Igloo coolers, and totes for making winter shelters!

🍂 Fall is in the air! 🍁 It's time to collect styrofoam boxes!!! 🐾

These are very easy to find, free of charge. Simply ask your friends/family/followers to save them from their food deliveries, especially Omaha Steaks deliveries as those containers are ideal if you're placing the box in a plastic storage tote. You can also ask for containers on Freecycle.org and other giveaway/sharing websites. If there's a styrofoam recycling event in your community, contact the organizer and see if they'll allow you to sort through to pick out some boxes -- or maybe even bring your group's vehicle so donors can deliver and meet you directly. (What a great opportunity to advocate for community cats!)

Be prepared.....let's get those shelters ready! 👍

19/09/2025

Best to check with the staff at the clinic. And if you do use Zip Ties on your traps, we suggest the reusable ones. Much easier to remove. Some clinics prefer a carabiner on the door that will be opened more frequently (such as for food) and a Zip Tie on the other end. I attach both to the handle when the cat is released so that they are there for the next cat.

What do you use to secure your traps?

17/09/2025

We can't say this enough. Kittens having kittens is not cute. And it is so much better for their overall health if spayed by 4 months..

16/09/2025

Advanced TNR Program Management Training from Community Cats Podcast on Saturday, September 20, 2025 | 1:00-3:00 PM ET. And it is only $10!

If you aren't available then, you can register and you will be sent a special link to the recorded session after it ends so you can watch it on your schedule. Click below for more information.

🐾 Sign up today and save more cats tomorrow! 🐾

Return-to-Field: Saving the Lives of Community Cats is happening this Saturday at 2:00 PM ET!

Get certified in this advanced TNR program management training and strengthen your knowledge of RTF policies, implementation strategies, and how to integrate RTF with TNR. - https://mailchi.mp/communitycatspodcast/news-from-the-community-cats-podcast-6679038

16/09/2025

DFW folks, time to mark your calendars and get those traps ready... again.

Mark your calendar! TCAP is hosting a Free Fix Day on Wednesday, September 24th.

During our Free Fix Days, TCAP offers FREE sterilization and rabies vaccines for feral and community cats. This event will take place at 7 TCAP clinics: Allen, Arlington, Denton, Fort Worth, Garland, Hurst, and Joshua! 75 cats will be seen at each location on a first-come, first-served basis. No residency restrictions!

There’s no limit on the number of cats per caregiver, and no appointment is required. Cats must arrive in individual live traps or pet carriers, and all cats will receive an ear tip.

Each cat accepted will receive a voucher for a free spay/neuter for another cat at a future date. Trap One, Get One! You will be able to make an appointment for a free feral spay or neuter at a future date using the voucher you receive. This voucher also includes a rabies vaccine.

Please stay in line if you are outside of the first 75 cats. Our team will provide one voucher per cat present for sterilization vaccine for the next 75 cats! You will be able to make an appointment for a free feral spay or neuter and rabies vaccine at a future date using the voucher you receive. Only those already in line with cats will receive the voucher.
The line cuts off no later than 9 am!

Important Notes:
*Any additional fees for in-heat, cryptorchid, or pregnancy procedures will be covered by TCAP
*Caretakers will be responsible for any additional elective services such as vaccines, pain medication, or viral testing at the time of service
*Cats must be presented in live traps or pet carriers

We’re excited to continue supporting the feral cat community in DFW!

14/09/2025

It is "Shelter Season" again! And here are some really good tips!

In most cases, cats will figure out how to use shelters on their own. Here are a few things you can do to attract them if it doesn't seem like your cats are using the shelter:

▪️Be patient. Some cats need a lot of time to get comfortable with a new shelter.

▪️Loosely fill the shelter ½ to ¾ full of straw, NOT HAY. Replace the straw as needed.

▪️Remove any door flaps on the shelter. While doorway flaps help keep cold air out and warm air in, they should not be added until after your cats are used to going in and out of the shelter.

▪️Do not place food in or near the shelter. Cats instinctively avoid sleeping near food as it attracts other cats and wildlife (predators).

▪️Location is important. Place the shelter where your cats are already hanging out. More feral/less social cats typically want to shelter farther away from humans. The more secluded the shelter, the more likely cats are to use it.

▪️Place the shelter near natural cover, as opposed to out in the open where your cats may not feel safe. Cats prefer to move along walls, hedges or other natural barriers and boundaries. Place the shelter under or up against a building, fence, tree, porch, bush or some type of overhang.

▪️Place the shelter with the entrance facing away from the wind, rain and snow.

▪️Make sure the shelter is on a flat surface. A wobbly shelter could discourage cats from entering.

▪️It’s possible that your cats have another shelter where they feel safe. They may already have a shed, crawlspace or some other shelter they prefer.

▪️When all else fails, try a new location, but only after giving your cats plenty of time to explore and get used to the current location.

THANK YOU to the caregivers who have taken the time to build a feral cat shelter. Protection from the elements is critical, especially during the cold months, and your thoughtfulness will no doubt save many lives this winter.

14/09/2025

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13/09/2025

IF/WHEN this happens in your home, find a trapper, colony caretaker, or rescue group that can use dry food and unopened canned food. Trappers and those feeding colonies will almost always accept opened bags of dry food as well as wet food that has not been opened. Rescue groups will often give them the food received that they cannot use. I am so grateful for those who pass along donated food for my colony kitties. Food is expensive and this helps so much!

11/09/2025

10/09/2025

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09/09/2025

What a great idea! Also helpful if trying to disguise a trap for a cat that is all too familiar with what it does.