TNR: Trap, Neuter and Return:Improving the Lives of Street

Cats

Sharon Warner Methvin, PhD

Department of Anthropology, Mt. Hood Community College, Portland, OR

Smethvinn@gmail.comTNR:诱捕，绝育，放归：让流浪猫过得更好

Provide Love 给予我们爱

Companionship 给予我们陪伴

Reduce Stress 减缓压力

Increase our Health 有益健康

Keep us Active 让我们更活跃

What Else? 还有呢？

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is practiced in many cities in the US, including my hometown where we have neutered 75, 000 street cats.

We have been doing TNR since 1995.

诱捕--绝育--放归（简称TNR）在美国很多城市都实施了，我的家乡也实施了TNR，绝育了7500只流浪猫。

我们从1995年就开始实施TNR了。

TNR is a process where caregivers who are feeding street cats trap them in humane traps.

They then take them to be neutered and after recovery, return the cats to where they are feeding them.

Adoptable cats and kittens are placed in homes whenever possible.

TNR是由长期喂猫人设下诱捕陷阱来抓住流浪猫。

然后带流浪猫绝育并在流浪猫恢复好之后将其放归喂猫处。

最后尽可能地将比较适合领养的猫和小猫崽先寄养在家里。

The goal of the program is to reduce suffering for existing street cats and prevent the births and suffering of future kittens.

One cat can produce many litters of kittens for which there are no homes.

In the US only 4 of every 10 kittens born will find a home. The rest die or are injured on the streets.

TNR的目的就是减少现存的流浪猫受苦并防止新一代流浪猫的出生和受苦。

一只猫可以生出很多窝小猫崽，而这些小猫崽却没有人领养。

在美国，每10只出生的猫崽里，只有4只能够找到领养家庭。剩下的没有被领养的只能流浪街头，或死或伤。

Commercial Kitty 商业地带的流浪猫

Lone Mom/Tom Hobo 单身猫妈/流浪公猫

Barnyard Kitty 农村猫咪

Residential Colony 居民区流浪猫

People sometimes feel overwhelmed and wonder what difference they can really make to help animals have a better life.

I hope this talk has inspired you and provided you with knowledge, ideas and examples.

YOU can make a difference!

人们总是感到挫败并寻思他们所做的是否能真正帮助流浪动物过得更好。

我希望我的演讲能够激励你们，能够让你们学到一些知识，观念和一些实例。

相信，你所做的真的能帮助到动物们！

新的诱捕绝育放归项目”关注即是救助“猫普达--帮助流浪猫

让我们义卖打豆豆猫咖里的T恤，帮猫普达筹集资金来资助这个项目

打豆豆猫咪咖啡，位于南京宁海路205号，致力帮助南京流浪猫绝育

The first official TNR community project in Nanjing will be conducted this month at Lingu Temple. Approximately 25-30 cats are cared for by the temple monks. One elderly monk at the entrance to the temple feeds around 15 cats faithfully every morning and evening.

南京第一个正是TNR项目将于这个月在灵谷寺实施。

寺内的僧人照顾着大约25-20只猫。

一位门口的僧人每天起早贪黑喂养大约15只猫。

Others lounge blissfully and safe inside the temple grounds. The temple has posted four large notices that address the kind treatment of the temple cats, and all animals, and the promotion of TNR as a humane alternative to killing other beings.

其他的猫自由自地在寺内躺着、穿行。

灵谷寺竖起了四个巨幅的标识提醒游客要友善对待寺里的猫和所有的动物，还有的标识是TNR的推广因为TNR是一个可以代替安乐死流浪动物的措施。

An old man was strolling along a beach one day. In the distance he saw a young boy and girl reach down, pick something up and throw it back into the sea. Drawing nearer, he saw that the sand was littered with thousands of small stranded sand dollars. The children were patiently picking them up, one at a time, and returning them to safety below the water.

一天，一位老人在海边漫步。远远地，他看见一个小男孩和一个小女孩低下头，捡起一个东西，然后把那个东西扔到海里。随着他慢慢走近，他看见沙滩上满是搁浅的海星。孩子们正在耐心地捡起海星，一个一个地将它们扔回安全的水里。

"What are you doing?" he asked. "Saving sand dollars," replied the children as they continued about the job at hand. "But the beach is littered with dying sand dollars. What possible difference can you make by doing this?”The young girl bent over, picked up another, and threw it back in the water with all her might. Then, turning to the old man, she said with all the wisdom of a child:

"I made a difference for that one."

”你们在干什么呀？“他问道。”我们在救海星呢。“孩子们回答道，并没有停下手头的动作。”但是沙滩上满是濒死的海星，你这么做也没有意义啊？“小女孩弯下腰，捡起一个海星，用尽全身力气把它扔了出去。然后对老人说了一句充满了童真的智慧的话：”我至少救了刚刚那只，这对于它来说是有意义的。“