We are thrilled that Bastrop CATS has been selected for a $1,000 matching grant from The Community Cats Podcast Grant Program!  Our goal is to raise $1,000 between now and Sunday, November 14 via a $5 Friday Campaign. When we hit that $1,000 mark, The Community Cats Podcast Grant Program will double our impact! One […]

TNRTexas.com is a website managed by a small group of people in the greater Austin area who volunteer in some way to improve the quality of life for animals. Most of us are involved in a few different ways of doing what we can to make things better but all of us share a love […]

By: Eileen Haag Hey, All You Cat Lovers! You can support Bastrop CATS’ Mission to assist the feral, free-roaming, and stray cats in Bastrop County, and it’s super easy! Are you actively trapping cats in our TNR program, doing your best to help out, but simply cannot afford to pay surgery costs for all of […]

By: Terrie Lynn Bach   Late one Sunday night last spring, we got a message that there was a single neonatal kitten found. The finder did not want to take care of such a tiny kitten who needed to be bottle fed and was not interested in learning. Our Cat Team had to hustle to […]

by: Terrie Lynn Bach Just before Mother’s Day, we got an urgent message regarding an emaciated, friendly cat who wandered up to the home of our TNR volunteers who lives in Smithville. Bastrop CATS got this very sweet, very sick kitty into the vet and posted lost cat notices in the local lost and found […]

Get out your money trees because if you’re not spaying and neutering the community cats in your neighborhood, you’re going to need an extra money tree or two!  We did the math to show you just how cost effective it is to spend $70 to spay and neuter a male and female cat rather than […]

After 7 weeks of trapping, persistence pays off! In February, we received a call for help from a daughter of a family in Circle D.  She told us that she thought they had about 30 cats; however, after time spent there, we realized there were actually 34. This “porch cat” colony had started from two […]

On May 5th, Save an Angel hit their one year anniversary of being open full-time, two days per week! And, in late April, they performed their one thousandth TNR cat surgery in partnership with Bastrop CATS! And here he is: Bastrop CATS and Save an Angel have been partnering together for eight years, and they look […]

Thank you to those generous individuals who contributed to Bastrop C.A.T.S. as part of the Amplify Austin Day of Giving in early March! From your charitable donations, we raised $7,248.  But we still need donations– helping to cover the spay/neuter surgery, medical cases, foster supplies, traps, and more cost lots of money, and we are […]

Springtime is in the air, and that means pregnant and in-heat cats– and soon: kittens!  Every spring, the Bastrop County Animal Shelter (BCAS) is inundated with kittens. Well-meaning good Samaritans scoop up litters of kittens that they think have been abandoned by the mom and bring them to the shelter. However, in most cases, the […]