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An Examination of an Iconic Trap-Neuter-Return Program: The Newburyport, Massachusetts Case Study.
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- Impact of a trap-neuter-return event on the size of free-roaming cat colonies around barns and stables in Quebec: A randomized controlled trial.Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire · 2018Trial
- Urban Cat Management in Australia-Evidence-Based Strategies for Success.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Four Years of Promising Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in Córdoba, Spain: A Scalable Model for Urban Feline Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Domestic cat management in the UK: learnings from a global perspective.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Evaluation of Population Management Based on Trap-Neuter-Return and Trap-Neuter-Adoption Practices in a Free-Roaming Cat Colony in the Federal District, Brazil.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Impact of a Local Government Funded Free Cat Sterilization Program for Owned and Semi-Owned Cats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Community Engagement and the Effectiveness of Free-Roaming Cat Control Techniques: A Systematic Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- The Role of Veterinarians in Managing Community Cats: A Contextualized, Comprehensive Approach for Biodiversity, Public Health, and Animal Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The Impact of Lethal, Enforcement-Centred Cat Management on Human Wellbeing: Exploring Lived Experiences of Cat Carers Affected by Cat Culling at the Port of Newcastle.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Guidance for management of free-roaming community cats: a bioeconomic analysis.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2022Article
- Reduction of free-roaming cat population requires high-intensity neutering in spatial contiguity to mitigate compensatory effects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Cats Are Not Fish: A Ricker Model Fails to Account for Key Aspects of Trap-Neuter-Return Programs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- "State of the Mewnion": Practices of Feral Cat Care and Advocacy Organizations in the United States.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
- The Impact of Targeted Trap-Neuter-Return Efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Evidence for Citation Networks in Studies of Free-Roaming Cats: A Case Study Using Literature on Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Global Strategies for Population Management of Domestic Cats (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
- Back to School: An Updated Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Long-Term Trap-Neuter-Return Program on a University's Free-Roaming Cat Population.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Reply to Crawford et al.: Why Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Is an Ethical Solution for Stray Cat Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- A moral panic over cats.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2019Article
- Cat Colony Caretakers' Perceptions of Support and Opposition to TNR.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019Article
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Abstract
The use of trap-neuter-return (TNR) as a humane alternative to the lethal management of free-roaming cats has been on the rise for several decades in the United States; however a relative paucity of data from TNR programs exists. An iconic community-wide TNR effort; initiated in 1992 and renowned for having eliminated hundreds of free-roaming cats from the Newburyport; Massachusetts waterfront; is cited repeatedly; yet few details appear in the literature. Although the presence of feline population data was quite limited; a detailed narrative emerged from an examination of contemporaneous reports; extant TNR program documents; and stakeholder testimony. Available evidence indicates that an estimated 300 free-roaming cats were essentially unmanaged prior to the commencement of the TNR program; a quick reduction of up to one-third of the cats on the waterfront was attributed to the adoption of sociable cats and kittens; the elimination of the remaining population; over a 17-year period; was ascribed to attrition. These findings illuminate the potential effectiveness of TNR as a management practice; as well as call attention to the need for broad adoption of systematic data collection and assessment protocols.
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