Central Florida Community Pet Clinic — Prospective TNR Surgical Partner Google Street View DeBary City Council has voted to turn its trap-neuter-release program into a permanent permit ordinance, cementing a volunteer-driven effort to address the city's feral cat population. The vote locks in a process that traps free-roaming cats, has them surgically neutered, and returns them to the exact spot where they were found
WKMG reported that city leaders formally wrote the effort into law this week. The outlet credited council member Patricia Stevenson with championing the program, including approaching Central Florida Community Pet Clinic about partnering to handle the surgical side of the work
Volunteers trap the cats, and the clinic takes it from there, carefully matching each animal to its trap before and after surgery so it can be returned to the same colony. The clinic dedicates a specific recovery space to the post-surgery period, one that staff have nicknamed “the Beach,” per the station's report. Volunteers then hold the cats through that recovery window before releasing them back to where they were originally found, a process DeBary resident Robin McClintock described to WKMG
The city's own account of the program, posted by DeBary, explains the civic logic behind it: residents volunteer their time and resources to provide food, water, and shelter for local feral cat c