By TerrieLynn Bach
The 6th Kitty Bingo, themed Cosmic Kitty in honor of two eclipses this past year and the Leonids Meteor Shower, peaked on November 16, during a full moon. It was the night of our most successful Kitty Bingo EVER!
Tickets for this event sold-out the weekend before. Over 300 people, patrons, and volunteers came together at the Bastrop Convention Center for a night of fun bingo games, great food, sumptuous desserts and our new Ears & Tails Game.
Ears & Tails was so much fun! To play, we sold many blinky rings, which participants wore on their fingers. Then, just before tossing a coin, you put one hand on either their “ears” (head) or “tail” (rear). Depending on if you called it correctly, heads or tails, you either lost a ring or kept it. In the end, the winner was the last person with rings! The winner won a two nights’ staycation package at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines, which included golf donated by the Hyatt and a spa certificate donated by Janis Penick. Nice prize package!
Many fabulous bingo prizes were won, and the raffle and silent auction were a huge success! We will be able to help a lot of community cats in 2025!
Bastrop C.A.T.S. thanks all in our community, and even in Austin, for donating prizes, gift cards, and fabulous experiences to make this night memorable for so many lucky folks.
We appreciate our meow-velous sponsors, without whom we could not make Kitty Bingo happen!
A big meow of thanks to our presenting sponsor, the Juried Foundation! Bless you, Amy Juried, for being a Bastrop C.A.T.S. supporter since our founding in 2014! We now have over a decade of assisting the community cats of Bastrop County. Your support these last ten years has been much appreciated and truly an integral part of our success.
A big meow of thanks to all our sponsors: DelMar’s Animal Refuge Network, the Bastrop Convention Center, the Campbell Family Foundation, Lost Pines Toyota, Live Love Adopt Leeville Fosters, Essential Vet Care, Roadhouse, Skywall Construction, Sprk Host, Clutterbug Organizing, Best Friends Boarding, Lost Pines Gold Club, Glitterarti, 1832 Farmers Market, Bluebonnet Power, Janis Penick, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, CC Wine & Co., Jeri and Gary Stevens, Raelynn and Joseph Maxwell, Tolua Umaleava, Shade Tree Construction, LAC Painting/Dale Fischer, Butch Carmack, and Judy and Steve Morgan.
Kitty Bingo only can happen because of our many volunteers! Much love and gratitude to all our amazing volunteers!
Save the Date for Kitty Bingo 2025: September 21, 2025, a Sunday afternoon with brunch menu at the Bastrop Convention Center.
If you missed Kitty Bingo and would love to have one of our Cosmic Kitty tee shirts, come by and pick one up from us on November 30, where you will find Bastrop C.A.T.S. Meow Merch for sale at the 1832 Farmers Market on Chestnut St., right next door to the Bastrop Convention Center. We will be there from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with all our meowful fabulous holiday gifts! See you there! Meow!