T-Town TNR
T-Town TNR Mission
To resolve the feline overpopulation crisis in the City of Tulsa, OK through spay and neuter of Community Cats, utilizing humane trap-neuter-return (TNR) protocols.
Your donations make a difference in our community and in the quality of life ​for Tulsa unowned outside cats.​
This summer, our all-volunteer team is working tirelessly to make the lives of community cats better through TNVR (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return). June was a record month for our organization with 168 cats and kittens going through our program. Nevertheless, kitten season has hit hard and we are being inundated with new requests for assistance daily. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, we have had to postpone our largest fundraiser, City Nights. 

To continue funding our program, we hosted a virtual bingo event last night.  If your weren't able to join in the fun last night, keep your eyes open for other fun events!  Our goal is to raise $7,000 — enough money to fund one month of spay/neuter surgeries (110 cats).

All of us with T-Town TNR Thank You for your support!

T-Town TNR's Elaine Spencer (R) and Melanie Gardner (L) were interviewed by Stacy LeBaron of the Community Cats Podcast and it was a lot of fun! Please check it out  Tuesday 3/31/20 at CommunityCatsPodcast.com! 

Community Cats Podcast provides education, information, and dialogue that creates a supportive environment, empowering people to help cats in their community.  T-Town TNR invites you to follow and learn from Community Cats Podcast via iTunes and other platforms. They have a Facebook page, which you can find HERE, Twitter, which you can follow HERE, and their website CommunityCatsPodcast.com.

What To Do (or NOT to do) If You Find Kittens
Consider using "food grade" diatomaceous earth at your feeding stations to deter ants. It can be found at any feed store.  It can also be used to treat your yards and cat shelters to kill fleas in places where the cats hang out. It is harmless to pets and wildlife and quite inexpensive.
  • If you or others find kittens, please, please do not  immediately assume that the mother has left them and try to “rescue” them. Most of the time, she is away eating or has been scared by humans or dogs and is hiding. Trust that she will be back.
  • The mother cat offers her newborn kittens their best chance for survival, so wait and watch as long as you safely can for her to return before removing them.
  • Do not leave food for the mother near where she has the kittens. That draws wildlife and other cats to the site which threaten the lives of the kittens. She has put them safely away from any food sources on purpose.
  • If you are fairly certain that the kittens have been abandoned, put a border of flour around the kittens and leave the area (mom may be watching you watch for her) for a couple of hours and then come back and look for prints in the flour.
  • Know that there are not enough resources in the City of Tulsa to bottle feed and care for all of the kittens that will be born to unowned cats. They stand a better chance with their mothers, then spayed and neutered later when they are also old enough to vaccinate.
  • For more helpful information on this topic, click HERE
T-Town TNR...  Saving the City of Tulsa's community cats, one colony at a time!
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Official DDAF Grantee
According to Tulsa Animal Welfare municipal shelter records, from 2016 through 2019, 14,285 felines came into the shelter. Most of these were kittens whose births could have been prevented by spay or neuter.

More than half of all cats coming into the shelter die or are euthanized to make space for more intake.

Currently, the shelter does not "pick up" or trap cats. Any cats/kittens coming into the shelter are brought in by citizens.

Most of these kittens are brought in by well-meaning people, thinking they are doing the right thing removing them from their outdoor homes to bring them to the shelter. But no shelter is big enough to house and care for this many cats, especially those needing neonatal and special care and with a never-ending intake! At one point this 2019 summer, our shelter was getting in as many as 100 kittens each week!

That's 14,285 cats and kittens filling up our shelter, costing tax dollars... and most of them dying there, by natural causes or euthanasia...

Doesn’t slowing the birth rate make more sense?!? NOW is the time to commit to ending this cycle!

Happily, the more than 1,300 cats that went through our program in 2019 will not be reproducing ever again and can live without the stress and danger of reproduction and breeding behaviors. Your financial support has made this possible.

Please give generously to T-Town TNR through donations and fundraiser events like BINGO!
Consider giving a recurring monthly or quarterly gift so that we can plan for funds to be available year round!
We are an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization and every dollar goes toward making the lives of the cats and our neighborhoods healthier!

WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO KEEP UP OUR MOMENTUM.

​​T-Town TNR is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is eligible for most corporate matching gifts.
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Watch this video to better understand how T-Town TNR impacts the community.
T-Town TNR works year around to spay and neuter as many free-roaming or outside cats as possible to avoid the kitten explosion that began this year in late February. This means trapping on cold, bitter days and nights to improve the lives and health of Tulsa's unowned outside cats. Our team is dedicated and we have colony caregivers enthusiastic about caring for their colonies.
ALSO!, T-Town TNR, in collaboration with Tulsa SPCA will provide you with winter shelters (pictured below) for your community cats... Check it out and fill out the form to tell us what your kitties need!
The solution to cat overpopulation is so simple...  Spay & Neuter...  You can be a part of the change!  Every time a cat is spayed or neutered and returned to its outdoor home, another litter of kittens and needless suffering is avoided. Cats live happily in colonies with other cats and do very well in the Tulsa environment. Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) effectively reduces and stabilizes feral cat populations and makes our neighborhoods and community cats healthier and safer!
Some people are under the mistaken impression that there is a choice between having cats in their neighborhoods and not having them there. Catching and killing cats has failed for decades. It does not decrease feral cat populations.  You can help make a difference in our community and in the quality of life for our Tulsa community cats with Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return that is proven to;
  • effectively reduce and stabilize feral cat populations,
  • make the cat healthier and end the breeding cycle,
  • end mating behavior including yowling, fighting, spraying, and roaming,
  • reduce euthanasia rates in our municipal shelter, directing more resources to adoptable cats,
  • make our neighborhoods kinder, healthier and safer.​
TNR STOPS THIS!
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the humane and effective approach for stray and feral cats. Now in practice for decades in the US after being proven in Europe, scientific studies show that Trap-Neuter-Return improves the lives of feral cats, improves their relationships with the people who live near them and decreases the size of the colony over time.
Portland's Unique 'Cat Partnership' Has Started A Movement Nationwide. Check it out!

What are 'Neighborhood Cats'... and What is this thing called "T" "N" "R"?
FIND OUT HERE and ASK OTHERS TO TOO!

Neighborhood Cats

Step-By-Step TNR

How to Help Community Cats

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Guide to Trap Neuter Return and Colony Care handbook

Thank you to our T-Town TNR Sponsors from

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T-Town TNR, Inc., A 501 (c)(3) organization, Saving Community Cats, One Colony at a Time!
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