I have a few questions and am desperate for some advice. I have been doing TNR in our neighborhood for five years. We were told by promises, spay today, and alley cat this was the best way to manage a feral colony, so out of our own pockets we began to TNR. Every time a new cat shows up we trap and pay out of our own pockets for it to be altered and get its shots. Over the past couple years we have managed to socialize and find homes for 6 of these adult cats and kittens we always take in and get homes for. Sad as it is most we have to release after spaying/neutering. Recently our neighbor decided to start trapping and destroying these cats that we put tons of money and time into by having them spayed/neutered, getting them shots, and feeding. Not only are they trapping feral cats they are trapping pets (I mean declawed, totally tame, obviously pet cats). She has been nasty to me, but I have to be nice to her so she shows me the cats she trapped. She gives me the option of taking them inside to do something with them myself before she takes them away and does God knows what to them. It has made us and my two little daughters sick and a wreck because we have to decide what cats live and dies. If I do not take them inside she destroys them. Yesterday she brings me a purebred siamese from her trap, so I take it over to the owner who says to me, "I can not take what this lady is doing because I just lost my father and the cat keeps escaping. Please take him or I am just going to have to let her destroy him." Now I had to make the decision if this big lovey siamese lives or dies by the hands of this evil neighbor, so of course he is now in my back bedroom hoping for a foster family. I have my own house cats that we have rescued and do not let out. We can not take anymore. They claim not to want these cats in their yard, yet they are luring them over into their traps and into their yard with tuna and wet cat food. How is this even legal after we spent all this time and money because we were doing what we were told was the most humane and best way to manage a colony of feral/stray cats? We have offered to help them plant rue and mint to deter the cats, buy them car covers, buy them motion detector sprinklers, and buy them sprays to repel cats to help deter the cats from their yard. They do not want to hear it. They want us to stop feeding them because they think their plan of relocating and desposing of them will work better. This colony was about 20 when we moved in. They got into to trash and sprayed everywhere. Because of spaying/neutering and placing some of the more friendly ones in homes we have managed to get it down to around 8. They are not reproducing or spraying because they are fixed, and they do not get into trash because they are fed. I admit every spring more irresponsible pet owners drop off cats and we have to TNR a new crop. This has just gotten out of hand with the neighbors. They complained to my landlord about me feeding cats, but fortunately we asked him before we ever fed them, so he does not care. They spy on my porch at night to see how many cats I am feeding; therefore, how many still need trapped. By me feeding them I feel I am luring them to their deaths, so I have to stop (I have someone else in the neighborhood away from them to still feed from time to time). Here is the problem before I stop feeding. I have a two who come to my porch for feeding that we can pet and three kittens and a mommy cat someone dumped. I feel since they are the ones that have depended on us much of their life for food and shelter that I owe it to them to get them out of here since it is now unsafe for them to live here. I know a sweet farm lady who actually loves cats for her farm and feeds them, I told her the situation here, and she offered to take the ones we tamed and fixed but still live outdoors. I heard relocating them is very dangerous for them. Is this safe for them to go to the farm? The other option, although a bit expensive I believe, is to build an outdoor cat enclosure for some of the more tame ones. This was my landlords suggestion. Is this option do able, safe and humane? That would make these free roaming cats now trapped and caged. Also, I can touch the mom cat and want to get her spayed, but how do I get all three of her babies who just run from us? I am still confused how people think TNR and feeding the cats makes them reproduce. I do not know what this neighbor thinks is going to happen to this colony of cats once nobody is continually fixing them, giving them shots or feeding them. They are just going to multiply endlessly. As it already stands since they have began to take the cats we did TNR with away new cats I have never seen; therefore, are not fixed are moving in already. I am not TNRing a new crop of cats just to have them once again destroyed. I can not reason with them and have given them pamphlets from alley cat to educate them, but it has not helped. I have called many places for help, but I guess what they are doing is legal. For TNR to work everyone has to be on board. There has to be some laws protecting these animals once they are spayed/neutered. This is hardly fair to the cats or the people putting out the money to help solve this vast problem by doing what they are told is the right thing to do, only to have someone else next to you trapping and destroying the same cats you have put money into.