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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could someone share what a tnr is? The person frothing about that is being confusing and seems to think there is an agenda involved with respondents. [/quote]
Trap-neuter-release. Generally promoted as a non-lethal solution for feral cats. Usually cats are vaccinated when they are trapped and ear tip is cut to mark them.  I don't have any opinion one way or the other about it, but the direction this discussion has gone in is not useful to the OP or anyone really.[/quote]

TNR has been shown not to work. You need to vaccinate 80% or more of the cats to see any reduction in population, and that’s almost impossible to reach. TNR advocates like to cite the 1-2 examples where it worked, but those are a tiny minority.

Usually TNR colonies just continue to grow.

Meanwhile, TNR is environmentally disastrous and annoying to the neighbors. It’s not a solution. [/quote]

+100. Whoever is pushing TNR needs to stop. TNR is totally inhumane to the billion + mammals and birds these cats kill every year. It’s an ecological nightmare and totally indefensible.

For the same reason, OP’s neighbor needs to stop feeding feral cats. That’s the only neighborly solution. [/quote]

There was a woman in our old neighborhood who would feed feral cats and she was a total B about it.  She would set out food and water on our condo parking area and argue with residents about it.  We thought she actually lived in the area on the same alley but it turns out she lived like ten blocks north and just biked down to randomly feed cats in a different neighborhood.  We banded together to confront her every time she came down and then would immediately dump the food and water if she managed to leave it.  She started coming at different times so we literally had to get a trespass notice against her and she finally stopped.  [/quote]

Sounds like she didn’t want feral cats in her own neighborhood. [/quote]

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