ICRA is Volunteer Run
ICRA is an all-volunteer organization (we have no paid staff), with limited resources. We receive more requests for help than our volunteers can possibly respond to. Because of this, we focus on helping community members who are able to help them most with fixing problem they call us about. We give urgent situations top priority — pregnant females, newborn litters, injured cats, and so forth.
For the same reasons, we can’t help with every problem that involves cats. Our focus is “community cats” (free-roaming and unowned cats, whether friendly or not). Our core activity is trap-neuter-return (TNR), which has proven to be the most effective and humane way to solve the problem of community cats.