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Between now and mid-December, fewer than one female cat in thirty arriving at a TNR clinic is pregnant, compared with a third to over half in March and April. Groups that wind trapping down for winter are giving up their most productive surgery window. Trap through it, hold cats longer instead of stopping, drop the December gift-adoption ban, and rewrite the year-end appeal around a tax change most small donors have not heard of.
MedicalCosted at replacement value, volunteer labour is about two-thirds of what a trapping night costs and the clinic donation is about a quarter. A group that is already turning down surgery slots because nobody can trap should spend its next marginal dollar paying a trapper, not buying more vouchers.
MedicalThe 80% number is real, but it is a rate you have to keep paying, not a milestone you reach and bank. Most scattered, colony-by-colony TNR is a welfare intervention being sold as a population intervention, and the vacuum effect argument rescues use against catch-and-kill applies just as squarely to their own successes.
Colony & TNR · GuidesThe cat you trapped and fixed two years ago gets picked up and dropped at the shelter as an unowned feral on a short clock. Whether she comes home depends entirely on what you did before it happened. Here's how to make a colony cat traceable.
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