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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Which means….have a conversation with your neighbor. [/quote]

And if the neighbor says no? Get a trespass notice against her?[/quote]

[b]Then you’d prob need to call animal control[/b]. And likely spray the hose. Is it fair? No. But it might be the only step you can take. It works in time. [/quote]

Animal control will laugh at you and say it's the cycle of life ma'am.
Animal control administers the TNR program.[/quote]

Very few localities have laws protecting feral cats. But if you don’t give people a choice, they will start poisoning them—do you really want to go there?

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