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The goal of the TRN Program is to stablilize and improve the quality of life and eventually reduce the population of feral and community cats. By preventing new litters of kittens and addressing the health of existing cats, TNR can lead to a more humane and manageable situation with improved life with less suffering, less competition for resources and less hardship.Our volunteer trappers extend their skills to trap ill and injured community cats and help them get treatment in addition to spay/neuter surgery. This program helps prevent overpopulation in the feline colonies and reduces the strain on shelters and animal rescues. During the fiscal year ended February 28,2025 305 cats were trapped, 246 were released back to their colonies and the remainder were socialized for adoption with at Sante DOr or with other rescues. This year our trappers extended their skills,time and homes to help in the wake of the January 7th Eaton Canyon Fire in Altadena. In addition to continuing regular TNR throughout the community, trappers went to the fire zone nightly for several months to keep feeding stations supplied with fresh food and water for lost pets, community animals and wildlife whose homes and food sources were lost as a result of the fire. They collaborated with other community cat trappers, sharing equipment, camera footage, food and kennel space in their homes to house displace cats. Our team trapped 12 lost pets who were then reunited with their caretakes once they were able to secure permanent housing. 16 community cats were placed into working cat programs and sanctuaries with the help of the Pasadena Humane Society.During the fiscal year, Sante DOr TNR'd 187 cats.