How a tiny staff, a giant volunteer pool and a relentless will to save cats can end the use of euthanasia for population management, even in the most challenging communities.

Do you want to start a neuter-return program to help community cats in your town, but aren’t sure how to begin?

Dr. Julie Levy on what you can do to get local animal control agencies and municipal governments on board with programs to neuter community cats and return them to their habitats, instead of killing them.

There’s a new acronym in town, and some animal advocates are finding it a little confusing. What exactly is the difference between “TNR” and “SNR” when it comes to community cats?

Everyone’s been talking about the two-part webcast series challenging what we thought we knew about cats and shelters. If you missed the live events, or want to experience them again or share them with your friends and colleagues — now you can!

Alley Cat Allies, one of the nation’s leading advocates for community cats, is enlisting the support of veterinarians for trap-neuter-return programs.

Have you been hearing rumblings about a new approach to cats and shelters? Are you trying to figure out if it’s the best or worst thing to ever happen to cats? Or are you already sure it’s a terrible idea?

Are common cat sheltering and animal control policies helping cats? Are they humane? Effective? Not according to Dr. Kate Hurley, Director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program.

Trap-neuter-release programs for community cats help protect human health. That’s not just because altered cats are less likely to fight and roam, thus creating fewer opportunities for disease spread. It’s also because TNR programs routinely vaccinate their feline patients against rabies, a disease nearly always fatal to humans.

Are your local community cat programs based on data, or habit? Do you know what proportions of your outdoor cats need to be spayed or neutered to stabilize or reduce the population humanely?