Request a TNVR Appointment

Our program specifically involves returning cats to the original trapping location after spay/neuter and vaccination.  If this is not your intention, you may reach out to Friends of Strays Animal Shelter to discuss alternative options, 727-522-6566. We will always urge efforts to have the cats neutered and vaccinated, at absolute minimum.

If you do want the cats TNVR'd but do not have permission from the property owner, we must have consent before scheduling an appointment. In this case, please select the "Other" option and provide whatever info you can.

To schedule an appointment for our volunteers to come out and assist with trapping, it is essential that we coordinate with the person who feeds the cats, because controlling the food source is vital to successful scheduled trapping.

Do you know who feed the cats? If so, are you comfortable chatting with them and offering our contact information? It is legal to provide community cats with food and care in Pinellas County as long as they follow best practices and make reasonable efforts to provide TNVR for the cats. Our operations are endorsed by County Animal Services and we do not never turn anyone away for inability to cover expenses.

If you do not know who feeds, we encourage community members to ask around in their neighborhood to see if they can learn who is feeding. If you can share with us the location of the cats, we may be able to look into possibilities for trapping, but MEOW Now does not often have volunteers available for these types of scouting efforts.

If you are willing to trap the cats on your own, Friends of Strays runs a program called Pinellas Cats Alive which can accept a cat in a trap for neuter-vaccinate-return, Sunday-Thursday, 10-6, with no appointment necessary.

Please contact us if you have any additional questions. meownow@friendsofstrays.org 727-203-5255

In order to trap cats by appointment, it is essential to control the food source. We cannot schedule assisted trapping if the person(s) providing food do not agree to remove food for the duration of trapping efforts.

If you want to trap on your own we recommend the Friends of Strays program called Pinellas Cats Alive which operates in conjunction with Pinellas County Animal Services. They can accept a cat in a trap for neuter-vaccinate-return, Sunday-Thursday, with no appointment necessary.

If you are willing to share information with neighbors to coordinate a trapping effort, please arrange to pick up materials from our office location on Tyrone Blvd - St. Pete.

Kittens less than 2 pounds are too small for spay/neuter. Kittens usually need to be at least 8-10 weeks to reach 2 pounds. If there are small kittens, we will postpone the appointment to a time that the kittens are anticipated to be big enough.