Protecting Community Cats Stories

TNR trappers come across two stray kittens with a virus that damaged their eyes. They are receiving medical treatment and being fostered.

Story of tomcat who is part of TNR effort run by Best Friends, City of San Antonio Animal Care Services and Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department.

Everything comes together in group effort to rescue ‘Octomom,' a feline leukemia positive mother cat, and her eight kittens.

Best Friends offers $5,000 reward for info leading to an arrest and conviction of individual who put kitten in concrete in Colorado City, Arizona.

LifeLine Animal Project and DeKalb County Animal Services partner for Feral Freedom TNR program to save community (feral and stray) cats in Georgia.

Best Friends' lifesaving cat program Four Directions helps feral cats in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, providing trap neuter return (TNR).

The Humane Society of Somerset County is providing trap neuter return (TNR) for local community cats (ferals and strays).

Read cat success stories from this year, including effective trap neuter return programs, adoption events, programs for FELV-positive cats and more.

Inspired by a cat she adopted from Best Friends, one Malaysian woman cares for community cats (aka stray street cats) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Senate Bill 57 would allow animal authorities to bypass a three-day holding period for animals taking part in a local community cat management initiative: trap/neuter/return.

Best Friends is chosen as one of the charities to receive funding from American Express Members Project program. Money will help feral cats.

Holly Sizemore joins Best Friends as senior manager of Community Programs and Services to work on pit bull, feral cat, puppy mill programs and more.

Read about how trap/neuter/return (TNR) is helping the cats of Mayport, Florida, a fishing village that is part of Jacksonville.

TLC Cat Refuge in Berea, Kentucky has a free-roaming cats program that provides trap-neuter-return (TNR) for strays and ferals.

The city of Baltimore, MD, legally embraces trap-neuter-return (TNR) to manage its feral cat population.