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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.
Medical · Best PracticesThe 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.
MedicalTraps are cheap and cats are everywhere. The thing that actually limits how many cats you fix is surgery slots — and the clinic decides who gets them. Here's how to become the easy, reliable client who gets the appointments.
MedicalTrapping night doesn't care about your plans. Sooner or later you'll pull a trap forward and realize the cat inside is pregnant, or that her belly is full of milk and there are kittens somewhere you can't see. Here's how to make the call without hurting the cat or losing a litter.
Small animalsA domestic rabbit can't survive the field it was abandoned in, hides illness until it's nearly too late, and was probably an Easter impulse buy nobody planned for. Here's how to run the intake so it lives.
MedicalTrapping is the part of TNR where good intentions meet a cat who has watched you for an hour and decided not to go in the box. Here's how to plan a night that actually gets cats fixed instead of making them trap-shy.
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