After months of organizing, volunteers in a fledgling “trap, neuter, return” program say they have already reduced the feral cat population in Lavallette.
Borough residents last summer began coming to the borough council with complaints over a growing feral cat problem, particularly near President Avenue, leading the town to begin to make changes in its approach to animal control. Starting this year, Lavallette trained an in-house animal control officer rather than leaning on Seaside Heights to provide the service, and a group of volunteers from local towns began the TNR program.