Protect Cats in your Community

Humanely managing community cats is your best path to reducing the number of unowned cats in your shelters and in your community. Use the resources below to get ahead of any potential conflict with neighbors and policy-makers, increase the effectiveness of your trap-neuter-return (TNR) efforts, collaborate with wildlife conservationists and more. Everything from targeted TNR to colony care to grassroots mobilization is covered to help you best address the needs of the community cats in your neighborhood and beyond.

• Managing Community Cats: A Guide for Municipal Leaders—available for purchase and as a free PDF
• Where to Find Help for Community Cats listing—add your group to this comprehensive resource
• Supporting Community Cat webinar series—includes more than 20 archived webinars to take you from a community cat novice to expert!
• Trap-Neuter-Return: How to Manage a Community Cat Colony online course—brought to you by experts from Neighborhood Cats and The HSUS

Find these resources and more at animalsheltering.org/protectcommunitycats