What Is TNR?

Trap-Neuter-Return, or TNR for short, is the humane approach to controlling feral cat overpopulation. It’s a community-based program that involves concerned citizens like you trapping cats in your neighborhood, bringing them to a clinic like FixNation to get them fixed, and then returning the cats to the exact spot where you trapped them so they can live out the rest of their natural lives.

There exists in the Los Angeles area a very large population of homeless, stray and feral cats. Given their strong survival capabilities and prolific breeding, if nothing is done, this population will simply continue to grow. Unrestrained expansion will only lead to more and more cats living in unmanaged colonies, decreased public tolerance of homeless cats and increased pressure on the environment, animal control agencies and our society as a whole.

The old approach to controlling free-roaming cats was repeated extermination attempts. Long-term studies have demonstrated the futility of such a strategy, since other cats simply move in and replace the killed animals beginning the cycle of reproduction again.

On the other hand, Trap-Neuter-Return programs are a very successful method of decreasing stray cat populations. These programs succeed at the least cost to the public and provide the best possible life for the cats themselves. Therefore, FixNation devotes most of its resources, both personnel and material, toward decreasing the number of unowned cats though free sterilization services at our clinic, and massive TNR support.