By Launa Johnson
We are fully in kitten season now! While our focus is in Trap Neuter Return (and vaccinating), we often receive requests for assistance with sick and/or underage kittens that are found in the community. We can only help these tiny, helpless kittens with the help of kind community members who open their hearts and homes as fosters.
When we find nursing mothers at trap sites, we often try to find a foster to keep them and their babies safe until weaned. This process ensures that Mom is able to care for her babies in safety, and also ensures that she is fixed once the kittens are weaned. It also socializes the kittens, making them ready to be adopted into a loving home. Once the kittens are weaned, Mom is fixed and either returned to site or we try to seek rescue options for her along with the kittens.
If you want to help save more cats/kittens, please consider fostering for us (or any rescue/shelter in your area). We do try to provide supplies and food from donations (see our wish list below). We have a small but tight-knit and supportive network of volunteers and fosters who help prop each other up and pull together to save as many cats and kittens as we are able to.
We have needs for fosters for everything from young kittens, older kittens in need of socialization, nursing mommas, and medical recovery adult cats. Even respite, temp fostering is helpful if you can help foster when another volunteer goes out of town or needs a break for a short time.
NOTE: Socializing kittens is necessary to help them be adoptable. Young kittens take up the least space since they just need a kennel in a corner of a room. Adults are usually the easiest since they are content to hang out with you or in a separate room/bathroom.
If you are interested, please reach out with questions. An inquiry does not obligate you to agree to foster! In each situation, we reach out in regards to what foster needs are required at the time. Together, we can discuss what you are comfortable with and able to do for the cat/kittens.
Please email Launa at kittens@bastropcats.org or send us a message on Facebook Messenger We look forward to hearing from you!
If you would like to donate funds for TNR or foster supplies, we have Venmo and Paypal, and can accept cash or checks. Or you can use the Amazon Wishlist to send supplies.
Many other volunteer opportunities are available also! Support the Bastrop community cats and volunteer today!
