When I started university at Savanah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta, I partnered with Southern Animal Rescue, and we worked many weekends doing Trap Neuter Return (TNR) work in the Atlanta metro area.  Doing this work is where the seed was planted for Catlanta Care.  TNR work takes a lot of coordinating and a close-knit group of people to make it happen.  Most importantly you must have a plan:

• you need a trap cage.

• you need to have the place lined up where the cat will be spayed or neutered.

• you need someone to drop off the cat in the designated drop-off window.

• you need someone to pick up the cat in the designated pickup window.

• you need somewhere for the cat to recover. 

We trapped many cats and returned them to their area if the area was safe and the cats had a community feeder.  In many areas, the area wasn’t safe.  I could never find it in my heart to return 6–12-week-old kittens or cats that were friendly.   I recruited my mom.  I asked her to foster the kittens until I could find a rescue to take them.  Many of the kittens I did TNR work for had never been in contact with a person, so we had to socialize them before turning them over to a rescue.

Now that I have graduated from college, I am not on the front lines, so we help people fill in the slots they need.  Most of the time we are loaning out trap cages, helping with transport, and providing the garage for a cat to heal.  This page captures our leading hands….