PawsWatch is a group of volunteers that provides veterinary care and shelter to improve the lives of feral and unowned cats. Before the inception of PawsWatch, the life of cats found living in colonies in Rhode Island neighborhoods was bleak -- having to fight the elements of nature, living and reproducing in starvation and squalor, often facing poisoning or mass roundup for death.

There is new hope with a new approach called TNRM, which is proving to be a better way to treat this once condemned population. PawsWatch is part of a large and growing grassroots effort to transform "street cats" into healthy managed colonies, which decline through attrition.