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Tips & Tails TNR and Rescue, Inc is a non-profit, 501c3 in York County, SC committed to reducing the stray, feral, and unwanted cat population through TNR, fostering and adoption. Our mission is to educate community members and support government agencies to reduce the population and improve the lives or stray, feral, and discarded cats and kittens through humane TNR techniques, fostering, and adoption.

The shelter depends on foster families to help as many homeless and helpless animals as they can.  Please consider volun...
06/08/2026

The shelter depends on foster families to help as many homeless and helpless animals as they can. Please consider volunteering!

Kitten season is here โ€” and that means our tiniest arrivals need you. ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿพ

WE ARE LOOKING FOR DAIRY GODMOTHERS ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿพ for our Bottle Buddies Program.

Are you an experienced bottle feeder or ready to learn the art of nursing newborn kittens?
If you are experienced, please click on the application below to get started.

If you are new to bottle feeding, once you complete the application below, we will contact you to join a class to learn how to bottle feed.

If you are interested in bottle or syringe feeding tiny kittens and can provide round-the-clock care, feedings every few hours, and lots of love, we need you. ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง!

๐—ก๐—ข ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—˜๐—ก๐—–๐—˜ ๐—•๐—จ๐—ง ๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—œ๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ ๐—ช๐—”๐—ก๐—ง ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—›๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—ฃ? ๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ! ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฝ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€, ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜€, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ.

๐Ÿ’ก Why Foster?

Help save lives

We provide all supplies

You provide the love!

Fosters need to be a York County residents and must not have any negative animal history.

Interested? Apply online at https://www.cognitoforms.com/YorkCountyAnimalControl/KittenBottleBuddiesFosterApplication ๐Ÿ’•

06/06/2026

Set your traps this weekend! Bring them on Monday!

Monday, June 8th, you can bring TNR (feral) cats to be altered and get a rabies vaccine for $50!

Drop them off starting at 8:30 am, no later than 10 am. Pick up is the same day.

Location: Topgun Veterinarian Service, LLC 4046 Bookout Rd Rock Hill, SC 29730

Help the feral community and bring them in to be spayed/neutered ๐Ÿพ

What was supposed to be an 8-10 cat TNR project quickly revealed itself to be something much bigger! ๐Ÿพ After days of tra...
05/31/2026

What was supposed to be an 8-10 cat TNR project quickly revealed itself to be something much bigger! ๐Ÿพ

After days of trapping, transporting, surgeries, feeding, recovery, and monitoring, we have 30 total cats sterilized! โœ‚๏ธ

* 13 males
* 17 temales
* 2 neonates (1 male, 1 female)
* 4 dumped sick kittens ๐Ÿ˜ฉ
* 5 spay/abort procedures performed
* 15 unborn kittens prevented from being born into a life of uncertainty, disease, hunger, and suffering

โ€ผ๏ธ Without intervention, the impact of this colony would have grown rapidly! Read the math!

Starting population:
17 breeding females + 13 males= 30 cats total

Even using CONSERVATIVE estimates, those 17 females could have produced approximately 136-306 kittens within a SINGLE year! Just twelve months.

And it doesnโ€™t stop there.

Female kittens can become pregnant as early as 4 months old. Once the next generation begins reproducing, population growth becomes exponential. Colonies that start this size can easily reach several hundred cats within a year and well over 1,000 cats within two years.

๐Ÿฑ Year 0: 30 cats
๐Ÿฑ Year 1: 166-336 cats
๐Ÿฑ Year 2: 500-2,000+ cats

Survival: In real-world (feral/outdoor) conditions, kitten mortality is high- often 75%+ do not survive to 6 months due to disease, predation, starvation, trauma, etc. And the cycle just continues. ๐Ÿ”„

This is why TNR matters!

Thirty surgeries may not sound dramatic to some, but today there are 30 healthier cats, countless future suffering litters prevented, and a colony that will no longer grow.

Thank you to our volunteers who tirelessly trapped, transported, fed, monitored recovery, spent their own gas and believed this project was worth doing. Every single cat mattered. ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›

Chester County folks!  Please take advantage of this.
05/30/2026

Chester County folks! Please take advantage of this.

05/29/2026

One thing people struggle with understanding is this:
๐‚๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ.

The kittens.
The spraying.
The fighting.
The dozens of cats everywhere.

That happens because ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ต๐˜€โ€ฆ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€.

๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™—๐™š๐™˜๐™–๐™ข๐™š ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ.
๐™‹๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š ๐™›๐™š๐™™ ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ž๐™ญ.
๐™‹๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™š๐™ก๐™จ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™ž๐™ฃ.

And eventuallyโ€ฆthe situation feels impossible.

๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ.

But prevention wouldโ€™ve been ๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™ž๐™š๐™ง, ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™จ ๐™–๐™œ๐™ค before the population ever reached crisis level.

Thatโ€™s why we push spay and neuter so aggressively and are willing to work alongside people and teach them.

๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐„๐…๐Ž๐‘๐„ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ .

To the POS that dumped these babies to die, We hope you have the life you deserve.  Video footage shows who you are and ...
05/29/2026

To the POS that dumped these babies to die, We hope you have the life you deserve. Video footage shows who you are and charges will be coming.

At just 4 weeks old, they cannot eat on their own, they are covered in fleas and fly strike. One had an injury with live maggots pouring out with hundreds of eggs set to hatch any day.

Sadly, we do not have foster space as we are recovering from a TNR site that landed 15 kittens in our lap - if you are a REPUTABLE rescue and are able to help, please reach out ๐Ÿ™. At this time we are not expanding our foster/adoption program due to prioritizing the rescues mission : Prevention through education and TNR.

No rest in rescue.  After a whirlwind last few days trapping and vetting 30 cats, the work must go on.  We have 10 more ...
05/28/2026

No rest in rescue. After a whirlwind last few days trapping and vetting 30 cats, the work must go on. We have 10 more going to surgery tomorrow

These babies should have never been born and forced into a life of survival. All it took was 1 person to spay/neuter when the mom and dad showed up to eat.

05/27/2026
9:15am: loading traps into the van and heading out to scout what we thought would be a small colony of 8-10 cats.Fast fo...
05/24/2026

9:15am: loading traps into the van and heading out to scout what we thought would be a small colony of 8-10 cats.

Fast forward to nowโ€ฆ itโ€™s 6pm, weโ€™ve trapped 21 cats, rescued two tiny 2-week-old kittens, and there are still at least 2 more cats out there keeping us on our toes. ๐Ÿ˜…

What started as a โ€œquick scouting tripโ€ quickly turned into an all-day TNR marathon, because when we arrived, so many cats were already out and visible that we knew we had to jump into action immediately.

Days like today are exhausting, chaotic, emotional, and incredibly important. Every cat trapped today means fewer kittens suffering outdoors tomorrow and a healthier colony moving forward.

Weโ€™re grabbing a quick reset and heading back out now to finish the job. Wish us luck for the last few holdouts! ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ’ช

TNR Tuesday at York County Animal Services!!
05/24/2026

TNR Tuesday at York County Animal Services!!

๐—ง๐—›๐—œ๐—ฆ ๐—ง๐—จ๐—˜๐—ฆ๐——๐—”๐—ฌ, ๐— ๐—”๐—ฌ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ๐—ง๐—› ๐—ข๐—ก๐—Ÿ๐—ฌ
11:30 AM - 2 PM

๐—ง๐—ก๐—ฉ๐—ฅ (๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ-๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ-๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ-๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ป-๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€) ๐—ข๐—ก๐—Ÿ๐—ฌ!
THIS IS NOT FOR OWNED OR FRIENDLY CATS. THIS IS FOR FERAL CATS THAT MUST BE RETURNED TO THE PROPERTY THEY CAME FROM.
LIMIT OF 2 CATS PER HOUSEHOLD.
๐˜ ๐˜–๐˜™๐˜’ ๐˜Š๐˜–๐˜œ๐˜•๐˜›๐˜  ๐˜™๐˜Œ๐˜š๐˜๐˜‹๐˜Œ๐˜•๐˜›๐˜š ๐˜–๐˜•๐˜“๐˜ . You must have a York County Driver's License or Government ID with a York County address to receive services.

TNVR CATS ONLY
NOTE: THIS IS ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ง FOR OWNED CATS OR FRIENDLY STRAY CATS

Help us conquer the community cat population!
We have limited spaces for TNVRs (Non-Friendly community cats).

๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š (๐‘ต๐’๐’-๐’‡๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’…๐’๐’š) ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’•๐’”
Community cats are sterilized for population reduction through the TNVR (Trap-Neuter- Vaccinate-Return). To take part in this program, the cats must be returned to the location they were trapped from. We will accept a limit of 2 CATS per residence. TNR is for feral cats only that are 14 weeks or older. Cats MUST arrive in a humane trap covered with a towel or sheet. Only one cat per trap. We will not accept cats through TNVR that are not in a humane trap for the safety of the animal and our staff.

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York County, SC
29745

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