Helping Animals Rescue Team

Helping Animals Rescue Team HART is a small non profit foster based cat rescue, meaning we do not have a facility and rely on our incredible foster homes to save animals in need.

Its taken us a while to get the 2024 numbers. We've been busy starting 2025 yay!But here are the 2024 numbers:Total cats...
02/05/2025

Its taken us a while to get the 2024 numbers. We've been busy starting 2025 yay!
But here are the 2024 numbers:

Total cats taken into rescue: 538
Total cats TNR : 292
Total Barn Cats placed from the shelter: 37

We are so grateful for all the help we get from YOU.
We are grateful for our foster homes who selflessly keep their homes open to house these cats. Some can only do 2 at a time. Some can do 10 at a time. Every single home that fosters is a life saver.
Ever person that donates to our funds even 1.00 has helped save these lives.
Every volunteer that has driven cats to the vets have saved these lives.
If you have donated off our wishlist, Brought cat supplies to our drop off location, you have saved these lives.
And without our vet of record Homestead Animal Medical Clinic, PLLC and the staff there we would not be able to help any more cats. We can't get medicine without them. We can't get diagnosis on all the crazy stuff we see in these wonderful cats without them. We can't call the vet and ask pretty please can you fix another crazy feral at the last minute, without them.

Sesquatchie valley low cost spay neuter clinic helps us fix large groups of cats and kittens.
A time for Paw spay neuter clinic for helping us get even more cats fixed.

2025 is starting our with a bang as we are already at 30 cats on our intake list this year. So when you are annoyed with the cold and miserable winter weather right now just remember that you helped 538 cats last year.
YOU.

So here is a picture of our little dingaling Byzantium. And thank you Dr Holt for running medicine for his ears over to his foster on YOUR time.

This is a story about a special kitten.  His name is Byzantium.  Aka dingaling.  Aka ding d**g. Aka super cute love bug....
01/25/2025

This is a story about a special kitten. His name is Byzantium. Aka dingaling. Aka ding d**g.
Aka super cute love bug.
This guy is not currently available and we aren't sure he can really go up for adoption.
We got him as a kitten from a colony we were trapping and fixing. Most of his litter died and Byz has had all manner of troubles in his short life. Upper respiratory infection. Viral infection. Ring worm. He had an ear polyp removed. He walks like his hip is arthritic and he has a perpetually snotty nose. He has had so many issues we had him tested for fiv and surprise!!! He is actually negative!
This kitten has so much personality!
We wondered why his food dish was always so filthy.. wellll...he picks his crunchies up and tossed them in his water bowl then eats it from there. So now we make him " cereal " we put water in his crunchies and that's how he likes it.
He wants to be friends with everything. He loves his toys. He rubs against every surface.
He may now have an ear infection. Surprise surprise.
But his foster mom just shrugged her shoulders and cleaned out the ears and started some more meds. Why are we posting about this? Because look at this cute little block head!
He's had everything against him but look how happy he is! He's never in a rotten mood and nothing gets him down..
Be like Byz!

01/23/2025

Kittens for 2025 have started! It's way to early but we're seeing requests for help with moms & newborns already.

Here are a few of our wishlists in case anyone wants to donate. We are also back out trapping starting this weekend.

https://www.chewy.com/g/helping-animals-rescue-team_b64984900

https://www.walmart.com/registry/RR/7113a528-d772-411b-b674-31aa33b6647e

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2MQNZYG9JBOUB/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go_o

As always, thank you for supporting our mission to help the cats of Cumberland county.

Balboa just made his debut at pet sense. This boy was so close to staying with his foster mom forever.   But she let him...
01/16/2025

Balboa just made his debut at pet sense.
This boy was so close to staying with his foster mom forever. But she let him go so she could keep fostering. Balboa is a sweet loving purr machine about 2 years old with soft velvety fur. He loves to snuggle!
Adoption donation is 75 and he's fixed and vaccinated and microchipped. We register the chip for you!

01/07/2025

We have 4 kittens that need a ride on Thursday Jan 16th to clinic in Crossville. Anyone available to drop them off between 7:30 ‐ 8AM please contact us

Good news on our senior girl Siren.  Her blood work was good.  Slightly dehydrated so she got fluids.  Upon sedating her...
01/01/2025

Good news on our senior girl Siren. Her blood work was good. Slightly dehydrated so she got fluids. Upon sedating her to spay it was discovered that she was already spayed.
Siren is a snoozy girl who loves wet food and naps. She can eat dry food just fine but she will lay it on thick when she gets the wets!
Its ok old Girl. We've got you covered on wet food!
Once again thank you Joanne for your donation that covered her blood work!

She is available for adoption but she's also quite comfy at Central Bark where she gets her choice of sleeping spots...like the dryer with a bed or as of today she found a basket she liked and stayed there most of the day except for trips to the litter box.
We aren't rushing her out the door. She wil stay as long as she wants.

Sibling 5 month old Rasta Pasta and Relic are at pet sense looking for their forever homes.  These two guys are absolute...
12/28/2024

Sibling 5 month old Rasta Pasta and Relic are at pet sense looking for their forever homes.
These two guys are absolutely ridiculously sweet. They purr the moment they are touched and keep purring even when you try to annoy them. They play play play and also love to snuggle and rub against you.

Applications can be filled out online at www.hartrescue.weebly.com
Or in person at pet sense.

Siren says " what do you mean i have a bed on the dryer?  I now have 3 beds in this basket too.  Bring me snaaaackies!"
12/26/2024

Siren says " what do you mean i have a bed on the dryer? I now have 3 beds in this basket too. Bring me snaaaackies!"

12/25/2024

Thank you Joann for your donation to Siren.
For anyone that would like to visit with her. (If she decides to come down from whatever snuggle perch she has found)
She is currently one of the foster cats at Central Bark

Of course Jones will think you are there to see him and he will probably want to impersonate her to get more snackies and attention. So just know that she's the skinny old lady with the cranky voice and Jones is the fat boi who lies about his feeding schedule.

Central bark welcomes visitors to the cats
Any Monday. Tuesday. Thursday or Friday.

Our newest foster kitty.  This is Siren.  Age: unknown but we are guesstimating eleventy five.  She enjoys every bed she...
12/24/2024

Our newest foster kitty. This is Siren. Age: unknown but we are guesstimating eleventy five. She enjoys every bed she can try out. Preferably up away from the other peasant cats. Lots of wet food. She will curl her tail around the dish when she's not eating it and sometimes pets the food with the tip of her tail just to let us know it's still her food and she's just taking a break.
We add warm water to the wet food because she stays pretty dehydrated. We have to put her up in a condo with a recessed litter box when the foster mom isn't there so she doesn't gave to look for the litter box. She seems to forget where it is sometimes.
She's not fond of the younger cats eyeing up her snackies.
When the vet returns from the holidays we will have her evaluated and get blood work done.
Welcome Siren!

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas Eve and Happy Holidays to all of our Paxton Patrons and their fur babies. May you and your pets know all the joy of the season.❀️

If you have the time, I would love to see your Christmas babies, Paxton kitties or not!πŸŽ„πŸ€ΆπŸŽ…

12/24/2024

A big thank you to Dr Thomas Holt at Homestead Animal Medical Clinic, PLLC and his staff for not only fixing 13 cats for us today but picking them up from the shelter!
We also want to thank the staff at the Cumberland County Animal Shelter - Crossville, TN for helping us pick and load up 12 cats that we were able to sponsor spay and neuter for.
We have very limited foster space right now as our foster homes have dwindled over the years. But we want to keep helping Cumberland county cats get homes so we were able to sponsor their spay and neuter so they could get adopted quicker. As the cats in our program find homes we will continue to pull shelter cats into our program.
Team work makes the dream work!

Thank you to the anonymous donors! We received a chewy gift card in the mail today. And a donation of canned cat food wa...
12/24/2024

Thank you to the anonymous donors! We received a chewy gift card in the mail today. And a donation of canned cat food was waiting outside our main foster location at Central Bark.
The kitties thank you so much!

How about this little boy?? This is oodles! I caught him mid wink.   He's also available for immediate adoption! Not man...
12/20/2024

How about this little boy?? This is oodles! I caught him mid wink. He's also available for immediate adoption! Not many kittens left as kitten season is thankfully winding down.

Adopted!!!!Don't get me started on this girl.  Ursaline was just spayed on Tuesday and once she recovers she is ready fo...
12/20/2024

Adopted!!!!

Don't get me started on this girl. Ursaline was just spayed on Tuesday and once she recovers she is ready for a home!
She is very playful. We had to restrict her play right after spay so she didn't pull her stitch!
Applications as usual are available at www.hartrescue.weebly.com
Adoption donation is 75.00

What's this little fluffy surprise?  Rasta pasta is a sweet purr face extraordinaire. He is about 5 months old and ready...
12/20/2024

What's this little fluffy surprise? Rasta pasta is a sweet purr face extraordinaire. He is about 5 months old and ready for adoption! He loves to play. Loves to be snuggled. Loves to purr. He's been raised around well behaved dogs and would be fine with kids also.
His brother is Relic

Adopted!!!Check out this 15 pound house lion! This gentle soul is Hesperidium.  He is about 5 years old.  He's been neut...
12/20/2024

Adopted!!!

Check out this 15 pound house lion! This gentle soul is Hesperidium. He is about 5 years old. He's been neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, flea treated and microchipped.
Applications can be submitted at www.hartrescue.weebly.com
Adoption donation is 75.00
He loves wet food. He doesn't NEED it. But he does love it.

Look who just became available for Adoption!Relic is a ridiculously sweet kitten who purrs the minute you touch him.  He...
12/18/2024

Look who just became available for Adoption!
Relic is a ridiculously sweet kitten who purrs the minute you touch him. He cannot get enough love! He gets along with pretty much everything.
Fixed. Vaccinated. Dewormed. Microchipped and flea treated.
He's at pet sense waiting for you.

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