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Trap-Neuter-Return terms
TNR programmes: trap-neuter-return and TNVR, spay-neuter clinics for community cats, TNR funding, volunteer trappers and effectiveness research.
Colony caretakerA person who feeds and watches over an outdoor cat colony, and usually arranges neutering, vaccination and veterinary help for its cats.Ear-tippingThe removal of the tip of one ear under anaesthesia, done at neutering, to show at a glance that a free-roaming cat has been sterilised.NeuterThe surgery that removes a male cat's testicles so he cannot father kittens, with fewer urges to roam, fight and spray.Return to fieldA shelter practice of neutering, vaccinating and ear-tipping a healthy free-roaming cat, then returning it to where it was found.SpayThe surgery that removes a female cat's ovaries, and usually the uterus, so she can no longer become pregnant or go into heat.Trap-neuter-returnA programme in which free-roaming cats are humanely trapped, neutered, vaccinated, ear-tipped and then returned to where they were found.