We feed over 40 feral cats in the Homewood area as well as look after the cats in these colonies. If one is sick or injured, we trap them to provide medical services. If they are feral, they will be released back to the colony once treated.

Understanding the Context

We will also retire old colony cats to reside at the rescue building. TNR stands for "trap, neuter, release". FERAL definition: existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild. See examples of feral used in a sentence.

Key Insights

1. a. Having returned to an untamed state from domestication: a pack of feral dogs. b. Existing in a wild or untamed state.

Final Thoughts

2. Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage: a feral grin. [From Latin fera, wild animal, from ferus, wild; see ghwer- in Indo-European roots.]