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Animal welfare groups in Kansas City are ramping up efforts to control the citys feral cat population through trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs. However, a shortage of volunteers and a lack of funding continue to hinder progress.

Rachel, a longtime volunteer, is known as the Cat Lady of Kansas. She regularly receives pleas for help from residents.

Theres always someone saying, 'I need help.' Theres all these cats, she said.

Rachel leads a TNR program with the Heart of America Humane Society and partners with local clinics to spay and neuter feral cats.

This has been terrible. I mean, just the last year, the last 365 days, the program that I lead with Heart of America, we have fixed over a thousand community cats, and were still just drowning, she said.

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