Cleveland Animal Protective League (APL) Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Program Since the Cleveland APL TNR program’s inception in 2008, nearly 50,000 free-roaming cats (~4,511/year) have been sterilized and released to live out their lives without producing more homeless litters of kittens. The program focuses on helping community cats living in Cleveland and the Cuyahoga County suburbs. Trappers Read More …
Jennifer Brazalovics of Cleveland Heights is the photo contest winner! Her picture will be the cover image for the Together Initiative Facebook Page. April Reed of New Concord is the first runner up. Jenner Brazalovics of Cleveland Heights also received the third runner up. Thank you to everyone who participated this year! We’re Read More …
Together Initiative Photo Contest We are looking for a new Facebook banner photo and need your help. We are asking our network members to submit up to three (3) of their favorite original photos of community cats to replace our current banner. The winner’s photo will be proudly displayed at the top of our Facebook Read More …
Photo Highlights from NE Ohio Feral Cat Summit IV held on October 20, 2018, in Parma, Ohio
Toby Franks wins inaugural Together Initiative Community Cat Champion Award A practitioner of TNR for over 13 years Has personally trapped and returned (after sterilization and vaccination) over 1,200 cats Current clinic manager at Alter Clinic Animal Care in Canton Past clinic manager at One of a Kind Pet in Akron Past recipient of the Read More …
New Program: Community Cat Champion Award (sponsored by the Rascal Unit) to be presented annually by the Together Initiative for Ohio’s Community Cats Award to be presented in recognition of exemplary work benefiting Ohio’s community cats (e.g., trapping, caretaking, spay-neuter services, veterinary care, shelter-based programs, leadership, education, research). Activities are not limited to those listed Read More …
TNR of Warren is an all-volunteer organization founded by a group of concerned residents and a local veterinarian ten years (and well over 13,000 cats) ago in an effort to humanely reduce, via the use of trap-neuter-return (TNR), the number of stray and feral cats living in a neighborhood park. In the group’s first year Read More …
Please join us on June 30th from 2 pm to 4 pm at the BottleHouse Brewery in Cleveland Heights for “Team-Up for TNR II” a casual networking event and social hosted by the Together Initiative for Ohio’s Community Cats. Come for the hand-crafted artisanal beers (appetizers and desserts will be provided by the Together Initiative at Read More …
A recently published paper in the journal Animals, co-authored by Together Initiative co-founder Dan Spehar and Peter Wolf of the Best Friends Animal Society, examines the impact of an integrated return-to-field (RTF) and targeted trap-neuter-return (TNR) program on intake and euthanasia rates at a Municipal Animal Shelter. You can access the paper here.
From the start, the Rascal Unit has provided sterilization services for community cats because of the benefits that trap-neuter-return (TNR) offers both to cats and to the communities in which they reside. Surgeries for TNR efforts are offered to individual Ohio residents, and the Rascal Unit partners with rescue/TNR organizations to do large-scale projects. Rascal Read More …