Zuchetto is a sleek black community cat from West Paris TNR. He has sharp green eyes and a bit of dirt on his face. Tough, resourceful, and completely unapologetic about it. He was trapped, neutered, and returned to the West Paris colony where he is thriving.
TNR, or trap-neuter-return, is widely recognized as the most effective and humane approach to managing community cat populations. Alley Cat Allies, the national organization that pioneered the model in the United States, documents the process of TNR. Properly managed TNR colonies stabilize over time. They do so as reproduction stops. Additionally, natural attrition gradually reduces population size. That is exactly what the West Paris program is working toward.
Zuchetto came to us through the West Paris TNR Program. For more on how that effort works, see the full program post. For more on stray cat law in Maine, see the Stray Cat Law in Maine post.
