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Licking County TNR exists to improve the welfare of Licking County community cats. If you are interested in volunteering, please message us through our FB page.

In 2014, a group of cat advocates came together to help a group of homeless cats in licking County. Winnie and her friends were abandoned and small group of concerned citizens, vets and rescues pulled together and trapped all of the cats, provided spay/neuter and medical care (including a full mouth extraction of all Winnie's teeth due to dental disease) then found homes or barn homes for all of

them. This experience of rescuing 62 cats from a property in Newark, Ohio planted a seed that would grow into Licking County TNR. Winnie and her 49(+) friends deserve to always be honored along with the people who worked tirelessly to rescue them. For that reason, her story will continue to appear on our page in its history. Today, Licking county TNR is a 100% donation funded and volunteer staffed, 501 (c ) 3, not-for-profit program that provides services for un-owned, community cats in Licking County, Ohio. Services offered include colony assessment/management consultation and trap-neuter-return services. Trap-neuter-return services include equipment loan, training and support on trapping, holding and transport of feral cats for TNR. Sterilization clinics are held once or twice a month and are by invitation only. To qualify for services, colonies must reside in Licking County and have a caregiver committed to providing food, water, shelter, appropriate medical care and continued TNR for the colony. The colony must have cat advocates willing to participate in the TNR process with support from LCTNR as needed. How to join our team:
Volunteers are needed for trapping, transport, housing and sterilization clinic staff. The Menu button on our page will open up a volunteer application. How to apply for services:
Orientation trainings are held at least once a month to provide cat advocates with the opportunity to learn about TNR, colony management and how our program helps those helping community cats. Individuals only need to attend an orientation once, after that, they will be able to request services whenever a new cat shows up or if an existing colony cat is injured and in need of care. Please remember that the need for these services are great and we are only one small group of volunteers. Your patience is greatly appreciated. As always, if you have an urgent need, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will see if we can help

03/01/2025

A huge Thank You to Chef Shack in Buckeye Lake for hosting our xmas season fundraising. Our Giving Tree and the super Chef Shack / Buckeye Lake Brewery Raffle basket brought in over$500! Jennifer Gorham you are the BEST!

THANK YOU to everyone who participated. Hope you enjoyed your new kitties ornaments😻.

Here's to a GREAT 2025 helping community cats and the people near them!

01/01/2025

Happy New Year to all our volunteers, colony caregivers, supporters and, of course, the community cats we hope to serve in 2025.

26/12/2024

Thank you to Sara Millet, owner of Balance Within and long time supporter/volunteer and caregiver for this donation of cat food for our colonies!
If you have a colony that is part of our program and could use some food to help feed your colony, contact us to arrange for pickup.

25/12/2024

Happy Holidays and thank you for all of your support this past year. We couldn't help the community cats of Licking County without you.

23/12/2024

Harold and Doris Hodge helped to make Christmas cozy for many Licking County animals during their lives. The Hodge Family Trust continues this legacy by supporting animal welfare organizations in their memory. Thank you Hodge family for your year end donation to LCTNR! We will do our best to live up to the legacy of Harold and Doris.

Harold and Doris are not alone. Thank you to everyone who has donated! If you would like to make an end of year donation, check out the "ways to donate" post at the top of the page or message us.(all dontaion are tax deductible) Lets make the Hodge family legacy of compassion spread!

20/12/2024

Santa made an early delivery! These two boxes containing four 16lb bags of cat food from our Chewy wishlist were just delivered. There was no packing slip, so we don't know who to thank but this food will help feed a lot of cats this holiday season.

*If you're a colony caregiver registered with our program (have attended an orientation for our program) and need help with food for your community cat colony, contact us for pickup location while supplies last. The bags have been broken down into smaller portions to help as many colonies as possible.

20/12/2024

See this sweet calico girl? Pie is just 8-10 weeks old, born to a barn cat colony and she has a special need.

At her physical, the vet heard a heart murmur. We don't know the underlying cause of the heart murmur, she might outgrow it as she puts on weight (she's barely 2 lbs right now) or it could indicate a problem with her heart. To determine that, she needs to see a Veterinary Cardiologist and have an echocardiogram done to see her heart in action. Just the consult and preliminary testing to get a good picture of her heart health would cost around $1,000.

This is beyond what our program can provide medically for her. She is spayed, up to date on vaccines, FIV/FELV negative and sweet as can be. We are willing to adopt her out as long as her adopter is willing and able to follow up on her heart murmur. If people are willing to contribute to a medical fund for Pie to see a Cardiologist for a better evaluation of her health after the holidays, we can set up a GoFundMe. She is safe and happy in foster care right now and our vet will continue to monitor the murmur as she gains weight. We're just trying to plan next steps for her.

17/12/2024

Did someone lose this kitten? This 10 week (approximately) old floofy kitten turned up at a colony feeding station in the area of Lake Dr near Cheltenham in Hebron.

He's friendly, so he's been around people but no microchip. He had a pretty messed up eye which was what drew the caregiver's attention (plus the lack of an eartip since all of hers are TNR).

If nobody is looking for him, we'll get him all fixed up (and fixed) and he'll be available for adoption in the very near future.

15/12/2024

Are you out Christmas'ing todayand need a break and power-up?
Looking for some a great night out to start the Holiday Spirit?

Stop by the Chef Shack & Buckeye Lake Brewery in Buckeye Lake for great food and brew! Bring a donation of paper towels, Swiffer Wetjet refills or trash bags for the LCTNR Giving Tree or pick up a donation slip to return. Check out the adorable hand crocheted cat ornaments, free with a $10 or more donation! While supplies last(we can only crochet so fast😹). Get one soon!

14/12/2024

UPDATE: ADOPTED! A nice couple saw them, left and came back a couple hours later to adopt both of them together ❤️

Cake and Marzipan are all set up at Tractor Supply in Newark on Deo Dr looking for a home.

12/12/2024

Turbo and Melon have debuted at the Licking County Humane Society through our partnership with them. They are super sweet and loving. Stop by and say hello.

11/12/2024

The story of Shmoo

Shmoo came to our program back on October 6th by way of a Good Samaritan. He followed her kids home and she thought he looked in bad condition. He was in very poor condition. He tested FIV/FELV negative and was super sweet, so he went to a medical foster for treatment of his bacterial infections, malnourishment and severe dehydration to give him a chance. Unfortunately, despite two months of fluids and care with brief improvements in his condition, his kidney function never stabilized and we were recently forced to euthanize Shmoo due to kidney failure.

Shmoo is an example of one of the most common myths about cats: 'they can just fend for themselves'.

NO! Cats are predators, but they learn to hunt and 'fend for themselves' as kittens being taught by their mama. Cats who are born indoors and spend their entire life indoors only learn how to beg (or steal) food from their people, to open cabinets, create mayhem or to enjoy scritches. If they suddenly find themselves outside, they don't know how to survive. There are plenty of TV shows and movies of humans taken out of their comfort zone (city people in rural surroundings or country folk in the city) and how much of a learning curve they face. If it's a struggle for a human being with the capacity to think and reason, it's more of a struggle for animals.

Even cats in managed colonies learn to rely on their caregiver and will struggle to survive if they lose their person.

Shmoo obviously never lived outside in the majority of his life and was obviously well-loved throughout his life. All he wanted was to be loved on and belly rubs were his favorite. Somehow earlier this year, he ended up without a home and he just didn't know how to 'fend for himself.'

Better than anyone, we understand that there's no place to take cats when their person passes away or moves to assisted living and nobody in the family is in a position to take them or if someone loses their home and can't take their cat with them. If you have a cat that you can't keep inside for whatever reason, plan for the cat's well-being.

1. FIX THE CAT--if the cat has not been fixed (Shmoo was estimated at 8-10 years old and had never been neutered), it's harder to find placement for them and if it ends up outside, life is so much harder for a male who not only has to figure out how to survive but also has to fight every other unfixed Tom or a female who not only has to learn to survive herself but also care for litter after litter after litter of kittens--half of which will die in their first year.

2. Call every rescue in driving distance, post on social media--exhaust every option for surrendering an indoor cat. Surrendering a cat you know and have their history is a lot different than asking someone to take a chance on an unknown cat that was found outside.

3. Shelter. It doesn't have to be fancy, but if you're putting an indoor cat outside, provide somewhere safe for them to get out of the weather. *Please don't put any cats who have been living inside out during the winter months! Community cats grow thicker fur during the fall to prepare for the cold. If they haven't been living exclusively outside since at least October, they don't have winter fur to protect them from cold temperatures. They can't safely be put outside until spring.

4. Meals. At least once a day put food out for them. Just leave the food out for 20 to 30 minutes to avoid attracting other animals to the area, but just because cats are good at catching mice and rodents,that doesn't mean they understand that their 'toy' can also be food. They only know food they've been 'taught' to eat.

Shmoo's last two months of life were spent being loved on with a full belly and soft bed back in the world of 'inside' that he understood. We can't save all the Shmoos out there, but anyone can improve the quality of life in small ways for the Shmoos still out there. We are on hiatus for the winter, we have a limited ability to respond to critical situations, but we cannot take in cats/kittens under most circumstances. We are not able to provide rescue services, our program is focused on improving the quality of life for stray or feral, unowned community cats living outside in Licking County.

*Our first orientation training for new participants of 2025 is scheduled for Saturday, February 1st at the Newark public library downtown from noon to 2 p.m and our bi-monthly clinics will start up late February or early March depending on weather (don't want pipes bursting from cold).

09/12/2024

Updated ways to support our program (added the option to donate through Square) as of December, 2024

06/12/2024

Turbo and Melon are resting up for their adoption event tomorrow from noon to 5 pm at Rural King Supply .

*We will be taking adoption applications for either or both but adoptions will not be finalized tomorrow. The volunteers who will be helping at the event cannot process adoption applications onsite. Arrangements will be made to deliver the kittens in a few days.

03/12/2024

Community cats don't get to celebrate much for the holiday season, but you can make their lives better all year long by visiting Licking County TNR's Giving Tree at Chef Shack in Buckeye Lake!

Visit the tree to make a cash donation or take a donation slip off the tree and return the item to the donation box. Items such as puppy pads, paper towels, Swiffer wet jet refills, Sharpie markers and more all help us do our work throughout the year.

NEW THIS YEAR!!! A free cat christmas ornament, hand crocheted by one of our veterinary staff with any donation of $10.00 or more(while supplies last).

Thank you to Chef Shack for hosting our tree.

May everyone, cats and humans, have a blessed holiday season!

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The LCTNR Bourbon Raffle at the 2024 Feral Fling! Aug 11th. Get tickets by Aug 8th!

UPDATE: the name most suggested/endorsed was Rav. So, this little guy has officially been dubbed Rav. Help us name him! This little guy came into our program in an unusual way. Our director saw this guy in the middle of the road, did a less-than-legal U turn and parked over him so she could safely retrieve him from the road. He's about 4-5 weeks old. What should we name him? The suggested name was Rav because she was driving a Toyota RAV at the time. What do our Facebook followers think his name should be? *she's cleaned him up and provided medical care so he looks better than he did.

UPDATE: Saffron finally got her freedom from foster on July 4th, going to a barn home. She will have another 4 weeks of acclimation at the new location but then she'll have 3 acres to roam. We're looking for grant funding or business donation for small holding pens (outdoor, cat-proof and predator-proof) to safely hold cats like Saffron in a less confining way. With Licking County seeing so much industrial development (great for the community), community cats are being displaced with nowhere to go and no real way to hold them humanely for extended periods of time while alternative living situations are found. Saffron was in foster care for more than 3 months because she couldn't go back to where she came from, but is unsocialized. She did get periods of time free in the room, but her life was confined to a condo enclosure and the room it was in--a big change from the outside life she's known her entire life. We want to do better for these cats in the future, but Saffron is finally starting to transition back to a better quality of life for her. Still waiting for a barn home. Miss Saffron had a barn lined up but it fell through and she's been gone from her colony too long to be returned. She's been chilling in foster for the past couple months and she's been very mellow, somewhat social except she refuses to be touched. She rubs herself against her foster's legs while meals are being dished out, but no other contact is permitted. She's about 4 years old, spayed and rabies vaccinated. She was a bit of a bully in her colony, so somewhere she is the only cat would be preferable. She's done well with a mama and nursing kitten sharing the foster room,not agitated but there's no direct interaction (Saffron gets free run of the foster room every other day with mama and baby getting free run the other days). She did pretty well playing with baby, so she might do OK with kittens but no way to be sure. (little Batman will be available for adoption in a few week

These 2 cuties made their debut at the garage sale😻 Meet "Burrito" (male Tabby) and his brother "Pico". They are both 3 month old colony kittens that have been fully socialized and vetted and are looking for their Furever Homes! Bring a little JOY into your life! Adopt a colony kitten❤️

HWY 40 Garage Sale today!!! Saturday 8-5 Sunday 10-3 !!!!KITTENS!!!!

Hwy 40 Garage Sale! Come see us at 116 N.9th st, Hebron OH (front lawn of Refugee Canyon Vet Service) Sat 8-5 Sun 10-3 Everything is "pick your price" ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARDS TNR in LICKING COUNTY!!!

As requested, here's a video of a feeding at the colony we're working on relocating. Some of the cats in the video have been placed or are being held in a foster home pending a suitable placement being ready (the video was taken as part of prep for trapping--doing a census of the colony population). If the colony had a dedicated caregiver able to feed daily, they would be fine where they are. They're not in imminent danger, their home is not being demolished. Their caregiver passed away more than four months ago and the friend who has taken over caring for the cats has health challenges of his own which will eventually make it impossible for him to make the trip to feed the cats daily. *This is the colony that so many wonderful people volunteered to help with feeding when the current caregiver has surgery soon. There are probably about 8-10 cats still on the property. All but a couple have been TNR'd at this point.

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