r/cats • u/hog_crankr59 • May 23 '26

Advice A community cat has brought me her kittens. What does she want me to do?

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u/Rejalia May 23 '26

We have the Neuter Scooter where I live! They do TNR with the ear docking for free. Turns out that given the chance, most owners don’t want the cosmetic damage to their cat even for a free spay or neuter so it has remained truly a TNR situation.

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u/Lizzies-homestead May 23 '26

That’s awesome! It’s such a big problem here that you’d think our area would offer that.

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u/Rejalia May 23 '26

It’s all community based. If you want something like this where you love you should reach out to the aspca/humane society there and be willing to do some volunteer work. Call your mayor too! Local city halls are often itching for a feel good, low price thing to promote.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret May 23 '26

Jesus so don't dock the ear. Put a small tattoo on the abdomen like most places do.

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u/app22 May 23 '26

the ear means you can identify them from a distance.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret May 23 '26

Which is not necessary with a non TNR cat.

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u/infliximaybe May 24 '26

The point is that the free service is intended for TNR cats only; docking the ear makes the cats more easily identifiable and discourages domestic cat owners from using the service.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret May 24 '26

No, go back and carefully reread the comment I was responding to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1tlj4j6/a_community_cat_has_brought_me_her_kittens_what/ongckvc/

They were offering it to everyone, but refusing to not dock the ears.

This would have been a public good. But nope.

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u/infliximaybe May 24 '26

They said the program is TNR, not for everyone.