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We need your help! Animal Control is excited to announce that we're enhancing our Trap Neuter Return (TNR) program to help maintain healthy community cat colonies in Mesa. Your input and participation are crucial to the success of this initiative.
Would you like to be a part of the program? Please take a few moments to complete our survey and share your thoughts. Together, we can create a better environment for our community and its feline residents.
What is TNR? Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is a humane and effective method to help control community cat populations and reduce nuisance behaviors including fighting, spraying, destructive behavior, and predation. With TNR, cats are humanely trapped, spayed/neutered, ear-clipped, and returned to their environment.
Trap: A feral cat is humanely trapped.
Neuter: The cat is spayed or neutered by a veterinarian. An ear is “tipped” or “notched” to identify the cat has been altered. This is a universal identifier of a sterilized feral cat.
Return: The cat is returned to its original location where it was previously living when trapped. Returning the cat stabilizes the colony and prevents a vacuum effect which causes other feral cats to take over the voided territory. This effect is a phenomenon that is scientifically known across all types of animal species.
TNR Benefits
Ends the reproduction cycle, limiting the growth of feral cat populations
Eliminates or minimizes annoying behaviors such as spraying, yowling, and fighting
Helps end the increase of unwanted cats in a community
We need your help! Animal Control is excited to announce that we're enhancing our Trap Neuter Return (TNR) program to help maintain healthy community cat colonies in Mesa. Your input and participation are crucial to the success of this initiative.
Would you like to be a part of the program? Please take a few moments to complete our survey and share your thoughts. Together, we can create a better environment for our community and its feline residents.
What is TNR? Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is a humane and effective method to help control community cat populations and reduce nuisance behaviors including fighting, spraying, destructive behavior, and predation. With TNR, cats are humanely trapped, spayed/neutered, ear-clipped, and returned to their environment.
Trap: A feral cat is humanely trapped.
Neuter: The cat is spayed or neutered by a veterinarian. An ear is “tipped” or “notched” to identify the cat has been altered. This is a universal identifier of a sterilized feral cat.
Return: The cat is returned to its original location where it was previously living when trapped. Returning the cat stabilizes the colony and prevents a vacuum effect which causes other feral cats to take over the voided territory. This effect is a phenomenon that is scientifically known across all types of animal species.
TNR Benefits
Ends the reproduction cycle, limiting the growth of feral cat populations
Eliminates or minimizes annoying behaviors such as spraying, yowling, and fighting
Helps end the increase of unwanted cats in a community
