Mitigation of impediments uncovered in this study will likely play an important role in leveraging this opportunity. Overall, significant potential within Ohio for expansion of collaborative non-lethal management programs for community cats seems to exist. In addition, local ordinances preventing TNR were cited as substantial hindrances. Moreover, a majority of stakeholders cited access to low-cost spay-neuter surgeries as essential to the initiation of TNR programs multiple participants described lack of nearby access to such services as an impediment to conducting TNR. A prevailing willingness on the part of stakeholders to collaborate and widespread support for non-lethal methods of unowned cat control were discovered. Participants representing ten humane societies/shelters, four county animal control agencies, a TNR-cat rescue group and a municipal government located in various parts of Ohio were interviewed over an eight-week period. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with stakeholders as part of a qualitative approach. An additional objective was to uncover impediments to the implementation of collaborative programs. The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify new or underutilized public-private collaborative practices, and associated elemental factors, that have the potential to be used as-or incorporated into-templates of best practice for the non-lethal management of unowned cats in Ohio. Collaborative TNR programs are experiencing success in a growing number of communities.

Research has indicated strong public support for employment of non-lethal methods, like trap-neuter-return (TNR). Unowned cat management typically necessitates a choice between utilization of lethal or non-lethal measures. Nevertheless, disparate groups of stakeholders share a common goal of fewer community cats. A contentious debate over the management of free-roaming cat populations is ongoing.

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