**UPDATE: Beginning January 2024, we’ve partnered with SLV Spay Neuter Alliance and Animal Humane New Mexico for our Stray Hearts TNR Program!

SCHEDULED WINTER 2024 TNR CLINIC DAYS

January 19 (SLV)
January 20 (SLV)
February 22 (Animal Humane)

Trap-Neuter-Return, or “TNR” for short, is the humane approach to controlling feral cat overpopulation.

It’s a community-based program that involves concerned citizens trapping roaming cats safely, bringing the cat to Stray Hearts Animal Shelter to get the animal spayed or neutered, and then returning the cat to the exact location where they were trapped, so they can live out the rest of their natural lives (ideally with a caregiver also providing food, water and shelter for them).

Stray Hearts will spay/neuter the trapped cat free of charge, give the cat a rabies vaccine and an “ear tip” (the tip of the left ear is removed by convention so that an animal can be identified as being spayed/neutered without having to touch it).

** Note: you are responsible for trapping the cat, delivering it to Stray Hearts, and picking it up after surgery. **

This service is provided to Taos County residents only. In partnership with The Edward F Zimmer Community Fund.

If you’re interested in this program, please email jason@strayhearts.org for more information or questions.