Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animal Training, Animals

Mission: ACR is the nation''s first National Cat Protection Association. Cats are the most popular companion animal, yet they still face many dangers and much misinformation is spread about cat predation and humane control of feral cat colonies. ACR provides scientific & medical information on all aspects of cat health, behavior problems, cat predation, rabies control, zoonotic diseases. ACR is a world leader in TNR for feral colonies, and the foremost experts in feral cat behavior and humane management of stray and feral cats. The main focus of ACR is to help all cats: stray, feral and wild--ACR assists the international community and has worked in Mexico and South Africa, as our TNR Handbook is being translated into Korean to help TNR programs in that country. We have helped cats in Israel, Australia, and other countries.

Results: Each year we place about 200-250 cats into loving homes and spay/neuter around 450 cats.

Programs: ACR works on several fronts: locally we help feral and stray cats in our own backyard in the D. C. Metropolitan area. ACR rescues stray and abandoned cats, provides vet. care and sterilization, and finds them good homes. We trap and TNR feral cats. Nationally, ACR provides educational materials on all aspects of caring for domestic Housecats and feral cats. ACR promotes early-age sterilization and neuter-before-adoption, ensuring that ALL cats placed in homes are sterilized first. ACR runs national C. A. T. programs--volunteer Cat Action Teams all across the country provide help to the public to care for strays and ferals in their neighborhoods to reduce the overpopulation of cats across the United States.