What you mean is that most TNR cats don’t need to be trapped a second time because they don’t survive long enough, the average lifespan for ferals and strays being only 2 to 5 years.
There’s no shortage of good reasons not to do TNR:
- to honor our responsibility to provide domesticated animals with either a life free of want and suffering or a humane death,
- to respect our communities and neighbors by not misusing public or private property,
- to protect people, pets, and livestock from diseases such as toxoplasmosis, rabies, and bubonic plague, transmitted by cats and other animals that are attracted to TNR colonies (mice, rats, raccoons, skunks, foxes, coyotes),
- to prevent the needless suffering and death of some of the billions of native animals killed each year by cats and their diseases,
- to avoid exploiting emotionally vulnerable people who may exhaust themselves and their financial resources and put themselves in physical danger trying to care for feral cats,
- to discourage the public from thinking it’s okay to abandon unwanted cats because “those TNR people will take care of them.”
The folks at Forgotten Felines Rescue have a kinder, more responsible approach to this tragic problem: TNPS (Trap, Neuter, Provide Sanctuary),
