Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society - Bastrop CATS

04/03/2025

Ah-hem

03/16/2025

03/07/2025

03/06/2025

Final push! 45 minutes left! We are 68% to our goal! 🥅 🐱

SHARE! SHARE! SHARE! We are half-way there!
It's High Noon and now is the perfect time to help us reach our goal!
Donations can be made until 6pm today!!!

https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc

03/06/2025

SHARE! SHARE! SHARE! We are half-way there!
It's High Noon and now is the perfect time to help us reach our goal!
Donations can be made until 6pm today!!!

https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc

03/06/2025

BIG NEWS! -We're already a third of the way there... let's keep going!

Amplify Austin's 24-hour giving event is LIVE!
Help us raise $20,000 for TNR and medical care of homeless cats in Bastrop Co. Every dollar counts!

Donate now: https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc

03/05/2025

A very special THANK YOU to our Amplify Austin Fundraising Champions!

TerrieLynn Bach, Launa Johnson, Martha Granger, Michael Bach-Lesak, Shelly Ballard, Carol Calvery, Patty Deak, Theresa Heckel, Tammy Heitz, Shannon Martin, Jacqueline Perez, Alexandria True and Jane Walton.

You can find their individual campaigns here - https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc

03/05/2025

🚨 Amplify Austin Day kicks off March 5 at 6 PM! 🚨 this is a 24 hour period of giving with I Live Here, I Give Here, and we’re going ALL IN to make it a success! We have a $5,000 matching donation from the Serendipity Fund - Empowering Love andd Hope. 🌻 This means your donations will be doubled!

💙 Every dollar helps us help more homeless cats and kittens, serve more clients with TNR needs, and saving homeless cats lives by reducing unwanted litters of kittens, vaccinating and providing medical care.

Like, share, and donate to help us reach our goal!

📅 WHEN TO DONATE:
🕘 Now (Early giving) thru March 6 (ends at 6pm)

🔗 Donate here: https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc

I’m ready to support Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society-Bastrop C.A.T.S. Inc. on March 5, 2025 during Amplify Austin Day 2025. Learn more about Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society-Bastrop C.A.T.S. Inc. and all the other organizations participating in Amplify Austin Day 2025.

03/04/2025

This little organization does BIG things for Bastrop's community cats. Please join us in the Austin Amplify campaign. Every contribution makes a BIG difference!

Amplify Austin and Kitty Bingo are our biggest fundraisers each year, supporting our work assisting community cats in Bastrop county to live better lives!

We would love all you cat lovers out there to help support this event by donating, creating your own donation page, and sharing the event with your friends and family.

March 5th and 6th, for 24 hours, is the actual event, but you can donate now or during the event itself.

[Check out our page](https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc) for matching funds and read stories about the amazing work Bastrop C.A.T.S. does to help lots of kitties!

[Amplify Austin](https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc) officially happens this week! Please help us make our goal of $25,000, the equivalent of over 300 cats spayed/neutered and vaccinated!

I’m ready to support Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society-Bastrop C.A.T.S. Inc. on March 5, 2025 during Amplify Austin Day 2025. Learn more about Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society-Bastrop C.A.T.S. Inc. and all the other organizations participating in Amplify Austin Day 2025.

03/02/2025

SCAM ALERT ‼️
Please do not send money to anyone that requests money from you via Venmo (that you do not know and expect the request).
There have been several central Texas animal charities posting that they have been alerted to someone (scammer!!) using their name and images to request money from people.
Bastrop CATS does not have a current Venmo acct and we will never ask you for money through any of our accounts. Please do not fall for this scam!

02/16/2025

Amplify Austin is one of our biggest fundraising events of the year! This 24-hour giving day (March 5–6), hosted by I Live Here I Give Here, helps support local nonprofits like ours.

Early giving has started, and every donation between now and March 6th could set us up for additional “bonus prizes” toward our $20,000 goal to help improve the lives of Bastrop County Community cats.

We also qualify for a matching fund provided by an anonymous supporter for organizations in the animal care & services category. Each nonprofit in this category will receive matching funds pro-rata based on total funds raised during Amplify Austin Day. While this is not a dollar-for-dollar match, every donation made on the Amplify platform between January 29 and 6 PM on March 6 will qualify toward our match total—making your gift go even further!

Donate today at https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/bastrop-cats-anonymous-tnr-society-bastrop-c-a-t-s-inc

You can also choose to donate through a volunteers individual fundraiser by choosing their BCats fundraiser on the link, scroll down to the bottom. We are grateful to all of our supporters that are creating fundraisers to share on our behalf! If you would like to create a fundraiser to share on your personal pages as well, choose the “Fundraise” option and share away! 😸

I’m ready to support Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society-Bastrop C.A.T.S. Inc. on March 5, 2025 during Amplify Austin Day 2025. Learn more about Bastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society-Bastrop C.A.T.S. Inc. and all the other organizations participating in Amplify Austin Day 2025.

02/15/2025

To wrap up our fun little game
Where we put your ex’es to shame
There is no ex more fitting
Than a dude with a name resubmitting!
(We can’t make this up y’all!)

02/14/2025

We understand that TNR and all that goes along with it is something you’ve never had to think about. On the other hand, our volunteers think about it, discuss it, and spend countless hours helping clients trap. So sometimes we forget how much we have learned through our efforts. So when we say that we recommend spaying pregnant cats (if they can’t be caught earlier) please know that after careful consideration we know this best for the cats and already born kittens. Take time to read this other TNR group’s perspective.

What convinced me to spay pregnant cats?

When I began my journey into TNR, of course I immediately encountered a pregnant cat. And when I looked for help from the local cat rescue organization, they let me know they could take her in and spay her.

Like many people who have not been involved in cat Rescue, I was horrified. Weren't we out here trying to save their lives? How could we talk about spaying a pregnant cat?

Another woman had seen me setting traps and working hard to trap this elusive cat, and when she found out I was talking to the group who would spay this cat she said oh I can take her, let me take her. I'll let her have her babies and I'll work on finding them homes.

I did catch the cat, and I arranged to bring her to this woman's home. When I got there, the smell of cat urine was overpowering. Walking into the house it appeared clean - but all the furniture was covered in plastic, and there were cats everywhere. Dozens of cats.

We walked into a different room where this very kind lady wanted to just open the carrier and let this shy newly trapped pregnant cat loose in this house with dozens of other cats. I didn't want to offend her, but I could see this was not saving this cat. There's no way I could leave that cat. And so I looked at her and said “you know, I can leave this cat, but I had another offer of a home for her, and they would keep her as their own cat. Would you mind if I gave her to them?”

Yes, I lied. In my defense, I will say I lied out of kindness, because the only reason this woman offered to take the cat was because she was going to be spayed. She didn't need another cat, she didn’t want another cat, and she definitely didn't need a litter of kittens. And, as soon as she knew there was another home available, she was happy to let her go.

That year, our local shelter was euthanizing 40 healthy tame kittens a week. 40. Healthy, tame, already born kittens.

I took the cat to the cat Rescue; they kept her and she was spayed and adopted out. That cat's life mattered - and she got a home. And I saved several kittens, because by spaying this cat before she had kittens, already born kittens who may have been euthanized got into homes.

Every time I took on a new TNR situation and saw kittens in the bushes -sick kittens, dying kittens, feral kittens - I became more comfortable with spaying every cat I trapped. Every time I saw or heard of a pregnant cat with complications - pyometra, mastitis, complicated births which would have ended in death for the cat without intervention - I became a strong advocate of spay them all. I only hope others who find pregnant cats can put aside the emotional response, look at the reality of Rescue, and know, spaying those pregnant cats save lives.

02/14/2025

James didn’t care
to be caught in our snare,
But he was, and was snipped
And no longer equipped!

02/13/2025

How could it be? This Ashley makes 3!
All sweet and Innocent, this kitty is named for someone that has bad intent!

02/12/2025

The swim team may have been cut but the Coach will never retire!

02/12/2025

Oh em gee! Another Ashley!
No offense to others with this name
I’m sure y’all don’t play that game,
This one’s a piece of work
And if I dare say - kind of a jerk!

02/11/2025

Hey Eric, at least you can console yourself by saying “neuter is cuter” 🙀