Like many urban areas, Trenton faces limited resources for the cats who can’t care for themselves. Trenton Cats Rescue steps in to help — caring for the community’s feral and homeless cats since 2012.
Our Mission
Trenton Cats Rescue is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to helping community, shelter, and family cats in Trenton, NJ since 2012.
Our Goals
- Provide humane, non-lethal methods of free roaming cat population management in the City of Trenton (Trap-Neuter-Return)
- Reduce the burden on Trenton Animal Shelter by caring for the adoptable cats of Trenton and removing cats from the shelter system whenever possible
- Conduct adoption events to place shelter and foster cats into permanent homes
- Increase public awareness about resources available to care for homeless and needy cats, most importantly sterilization services
- Provide financial assistance where possible for spay and neuter services
Our Leadership
Kathy Collins
Kathy has been involved in animal rescue since 2007, when she started volunteering and fostering for a local rescue. She managed volunteers, arranged adoptions and took care of cats and kittens in her home and at an adoption center.
After leaving her job in finance in 2010, she volunteered at a spay/neuter clinic and continued TNR and adoptions. When in late 2011 Trenton TNR and TAS Volunteers agreed to merge, she became a founding director of Trenton Cats Rescue, bridging TNR efforts with adoptable cat programs.
Since TCR was formed, every cat adopted through TAS and TCR has been spayed or neutered, and the live release rate has increased every year.
Lisa Tusay
Lisa has volunteered with TCR in a variety of capacities since the summer of 2012. Her support has included everything from fostering, coordinating events, processing adoptions, mentoring fosters, assisting with daily operational needs, and more.
Currently, Lisa leverages her talents as a creative marketing and production executive to help build and maintain the websites, marketing, and communications for the rescue. Her work has helped save hundreds of cats and kittens over the years.
Lexi Duran
Lexi is a passionate animal advocate with nearly three decades of experience in cat rescue and care. Having started fostering cats at the age of 6, she has dedicated her life to improving the lives of felines in need.
Lexi became a director in 2023. She currently splits her time between working at a cat-exclusive veterinary hospital and serving as an animal control officer for a local township. She has a special affinity for challenging behavioral cats and feral kittens. At home, she shares her life with her husband and three beloved personal cats, as well as a multitude of fosters.