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The Surgery Is the Cheapest Part: A TNR Night Costed Line by Line

Costed 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.

Aug 27, 2026 10 min read

Medical

Eighty Percent Sterilized and Still Growing: The Anatomy of a Colony That Comes Back

The 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.

Aug 22, 2026 11 min read

Colony & TNR · Guides

A Good Samaritan Scoops Up One of Your Colony Cats — Here's How to Get Her Back

The 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.

Jul 13, 2026 11 min read