Triple R Pets

04/03/2026

The drop trap in action. Jasmina, our caretaker in Bridgeview colony 1337, had been trapping for the colony queen for months. She finally got her with the drop trap last night. No more kittens for you mom cat. You’ll be safer and healthier than ever.

02/03/2026

TNR Hands-On Workshop: Saturday, March 28th, 10:30am to Noon, at the Worth Public Library, 6917 West 111th Street, Worth, IL, 60482

Learn how to trap, transport and return cats. Learn where the low-cost spay/neuter clinics are and what their services and costs are. Learn about your legal right to feed, water and shelter your colony in Cook County.

Our volunteers will provide hands-on training (minus the kitty) including how to set a trap. Tips and tricks for trapping even the smartest feline will be shared. Any and all questions are encouraged and will be answered. For more info and a map see: https://conta.cc/3MBlKDW

01/03/2026

You’re in a rowboat out on the water. There is a hole in the bottom of the boat, and although you are bailing water as fast as you can, the boat is sinking. Should you plug the hole in the bottom of the boat or just keep bailing?

A Texas pilot focuses on prevention, while California’s much larger initiative steers most funding into systems reform and only a smaller share into sterilization.

22/02/2026

Another great TNR workshop yesterday in Glenwood thanks to ACO Becky who secured the Glenwood field house for us to meet. Caretakers came from all over to learn how they can help the outside cats that ask for help. Participants came from Lansing, Glenwood, Chicago Heights, Posen, Evergreen Park, and as far as Oak Park. Together we can help the outside cats and reduce pet overpopulation and death in the shelters. Stay tuned for our next workshop.
Helping the outside cats

18/02/2026

Don't miss this Hands-On TNR Workshop In Glenwood this Saturday

TNR Hands-On Workshop: Saturday, February 21st, 10:30am to Noon At the Forest Fieldhouse, 325 East Center Street, Glenwood, IL, 60425

Learn how to trap, transport and return cats. Learn where the low-cost spay/neuter clinics are and what their services and costs are. Learn about your legal right to feed, water and shelter your colony in Cook County.

Our volunteers will provide hands-on training (minus the kitty) including how to set a trap. Tips and tricks for trapping even the smartest feline will be shared. Any and all questions are encouraged and will be answered.

If you intend to trap cats and let Triple R Pets help you with the financial costs, please complete the online TNR Assistance Request form before you attend a workshop. https://triplerpets.org/request-help

For more information and a map see Email link https://conta.cc/3ZJQ6H3

16/02/2026

UPDATE TRANSPORT FILLED Transport needed this Thursday February 19 2-4 pm. Pick up three cats from South Suburban and transport to caretaker’s home in Burbank 85th and Austin.

05/02/2026

TNR Hands-On Workshop: Saturday, February 21st, 10:30am to Noon At the Forest Fieldhouse, 325 East Center Street, Glenwood, IL, 60425

Learn how to trap, transport and return cats. Learn where the low-cost spay/neuter clinics are and what their services and costs are. Learn about your legal right to feed, water and shelter your colony in Cook County.

Our volunteers will provide hands-on training (minus the kitty) including how to set a trap. Tips and tricks for trapping even the smartest feline will be shared. Any and all questions are encouraged and will be answered.

If you intend to trap cats and let Triple R Pets help you with the financial costs, please complete the online TNR Assistance Request form before you attend a workshop. https://triplerpets.org/request-help

For more information and a map see Email link https://conta.cc/3ZJQ6H3

01/02/2026

Volunteers from Triple R Pets load donated towels, blankets, rugs and more for the dogs and cats at Chicago Animal Care and Control.

27/01/2026

The sun was rising, and Ellie needed to get up. She struggled to move but she couldn’t. The winter mix of snow and ice had frozen her fur to the ground.
Jacob had just started to warm up and get to work on the road construction project when he saw a small gray and white lump underneath the US mailbox on the sidewalk. He walked over and found Ellie where she had taken refuge for the night.
Jacob scraped some of the ice from her fur and loosened its grip on the cat. He opened his work coat and put Ellie inside. She did not resist.
The other road workers laughed at Jacob and told him he was wasting his time on a cat, but one of the workers sympathized, and together, they worked out a plan to contact the animal shelters and bring her in for adoption.
The only problem was that the shelters were already filled with unwanted pets. No one was going to take Ellie.
Until a friend of a friend of a friend told Jacob to try Triple R Pets.
Jacob called us, and although we are solely TNR, how could we turn away a man with a big heart and a very cold cat inside his jacket.
Out came the heating pads, the covered kennel and the space heater. Out came needles and warm saline, and chicken baby food and sardine broth.
And Ellie recovered. It took three days and nights for her to be able to start to eat on her own.
Ellie did have a microchip and we traced it to her owner in Chicago Heights IL. But when we contacted her, she told us she didn’t want the cat and that was why she had put Ellie outside.
Ellie is now safe in her foster home. She will be adopted and never feel the cold again.
If you can support our work with the cats that live outside, please send a donation so we can continue to help reduce pet overpopulation and the crisis in the shelters.

23/01/2026

Colony cats of Colony 1014 in Homer Glen IL cuddling on the warming mat in their shelter. No kittens born here for years.