Amplify Austin Day is TODAY, and we are asking you to join us in our efforts to make this the most PAWsome day of giving Central Texas has ever seen! We are writing to ask you to take five minutes to give to Bastrop CATS. After that, you can give to other nonprofits that do […]

Friends, meet Tina! In January, while trapping for TNR, this little cutie persistently got herself into Jana’s traps. She must have really liked the treats left in there to attract other cats! After several releases, Jana finally took her into the vet, despite thinking she wouldn’t be heavy enough to be spayed.  With the home […]

“It takes a village” to raise a kid, but it also takes a village to care for community cats! But what is a “community cat”? A community cat is one that isn’t a pet. In the past, people may have referred to these cats as ferals or strays, but we like to stay away from […]

On March 18, 2020, Austin Humane Society closed the community cat clinic that we utilized to sterilize our community cats due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. They remained closed throughout 2020. Bastrop CATS was able to quickly develop partnerships with Bastrop County Animal Shelter and Save an Angel to continue our TNR work along with our […]

Amplify Austin is just around the corner, and we need your help! Amplify Austin is the Central Texas Day of Giving and runs for 24 hours: 6pm on Thursday, March 4th through 6pm on Friday, March 5th, 2021. It is more important than ever to have success in raising funds during these 24 hours as […]

In early January, a Popeye’s Chicken customer noticed a cat while she was waiting in the drive-thru. When she got out of her car to explore it, she found half a dozen 4-or-5-month-old kittens staring back at her! As any of us would, she posted it on Facebook, and we were able to connect and […]

Almost two months ago, the Bastrop Animal Shelter took in scrawny, suffering, ringworm-inflicted kittens. It was the worst case of ringworm many of the staff and volunteers had seen– plus they were suffering from coccidia, ear mites, and other medical issues. These kittens needed immediate help. The shelter called upon their dedicated network of resources […]

Twice in the past month, we’ve been called on to assist cats who have been shot. The cruelty of some people is unbelievable.    Chester is a big, sweet orange tabby who was living his best tomcat life when someoneheartlessly shot him, shattering his leg bones. When we found him, we could see that the […]

We recently helped a client trap an indoor cat that had escaped the house and was running free for two weeks. They were unable to grab her by hand as she had crawled into a culvert that ran under a driveway.  We brought two traps over and disguised them with a big, brown, paper lawn […]

Starting in January 2021, the requested spay/neuter donation will be increasing from$30 to  $35. This is in conjunction with the clinic increasing their charge of that same amount. They, in turn, are raising their fee because there was a price increase in the injectable sedation drugs and surgical supplies (such as surgical thread used in […]