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.

We are located in Crossville, TN. We rescue high risk cats from our local animal shelter & conduct TNR. Chewy Wishlist
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03/21/2025

We've got another s/n trip coming up on Tuesday March 25th. We need drivers for both drop off and pickup. As usual, we have a minivan available so your car doesn't get dirty.

Clinic is in Dunlap and drop-off is 7:30 cst. We expect to have 18 cats - mix of friendly and feral. Pickup is usually after 2pm, but varies depending on how many surgeries they have.

Please PM us or call Deborah.

Thank you

03/14/2025

We are looking for a volunteer available during the day that can pick up adoptable cats and take them to pet sense. This would involve setting up the litter box..food and water at the pet sense cat habitat and putting the cats in the condos. Usually 1 or 2 cats at a time. When we have them available and ready to go. We will show you how to do it! Usually takes about 10 minutes to do.

03/09/2025

We have a s/n clinic run this Wed March 12th for up to 18 cats / kittens and the kitties need drivers to help get there and back. We do these trips on average twice a month (roughly every 2 weeks). These trips are critical for our TNR, barn cat and adoption programs. No kitties leave us before being fixed.

Morning drop off is 7:30am in Dunlap (straight down 127 to 111). Minivan available in lake tansi to make transporting easy. Pickup at 6:45.

After surgery pickup and return to Crossville sometime between 2 and 4 (will call usually 90 minutes before).

Contact us here or reach out to Deborah directly. Thank you!

Flower has joined Mercedes at Pet Sense today. This little one year old is a sweetheart who loves attention! She is a sw...
03/08/2025

Flower has joined Mercedes at Pet Sense today. This little one year old is a sweetheart who loves attention! She is a sweet gentle little soul.

Mercedes is ready to find a home! She may be going to pet sense this week!This 1ish year old girl is super affectionate ...
03/07/2025

Mercedes is ready to find a home! She may be going to pet sense this week!
This 1ish year old girl is super affectionate and always always wants attention. She loves her wet food and we just dialed it back a little (i know! How can we do that to her!!)
But her p**p was getting a little soft with all the rich wet food.
We just wanted to get a little more weight on her. But she is ready !
She would do well either in a home with other cats or by herself with all the love on her. She doesn't care either way so long as she can rub her face on you and make you hers!

Adoption donation is 75.00

03/06/2025

We got food donations today! Thank you so much! Wet and dry and Big Tuna spent a good portion of the day sitting on one of the cases of wet food!

This guy is all cheek. Big Tuna is a four year old hunk of sweetness. He weighs about 12 pounds. He wants to play with...
03/05/2025

This guy is all cheek. Big Tuna is a four year old hunk of sweetness. He weighs about 12 pounds. He wants to play with the other cats even though he is twice their size. He is fostered at Central Bark and loves to hang out there. When dogs get too over whelming he politely puts himself up on a shelf or the washing machine until things calm down.
What a giant charmer!

Millicent is 6ish months old and she just made her pet sense debut today! This playful girl is also affectionate and sw...
03/05/2025

Millicent is 6ish months old and she just made her pet sense debut today! This playful girl is also affectionate and sweet. She can hold her own with the other cats when playing and likes to make her little voice heard when she's in kitty battle. Fierce little red head!
She's fixed and vaccinated. Dewormed..flea treated and microchipped.
Adoption donation is 75

02/21/2025

Looking for a volunteer to drive cats to Dunlap Tuesday Feb 25th. Would need to leave Crossville abt 6:30 AM for drop off at 7:30 AM. Access to a minivan may be available. Mix of friendly and feral cats (15 max) and possibly a small to medium sized dog.

Please send us a message if interested.

May also need pickup driver between 2 - 4pm. Time varies depending on how surgeries go.

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.

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Looking for a volunteer to drive cats to Dunlap Tuesday Feb 25th. Would need to leave Crossville abt 6:30 AM for drop off at 7:30 AM. Access to a minivan may be available. Mix of friendly and feral cats (15 max) and possibly a small to medium sized dog. Please send us a message if interested. May also need pickup driver between 2 - 4pm. Time varies depending on how surgeries go.

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.

As the cold weather settles in, we have a big need for fosters. HART provides everything needed from dishes to bedding to medical. What we need are people who can open their hearts and their homes to provide love and playtime. We will work with you to find the right fits age wise. The length of time will vary with the age and health of the kittens / cats. If interested please fill out a form on our website https://hartrescue.weebly.com/ or send us an email at [email protected] Please feel free to share with friends and family who may not be on Facebook. Thank you!

Beautiful day at Swing On Brewery's annual car show. Meet lots of great people and revealed 2 baskets from the auction.

Yikes! Forgot to post we need drivers for our upcoming spay /neuter run Tuesday July 2nd. It will be too Dunlap for 18 - combo of feral and friendly. Drop off is 7:45 cst Pick up usually between 3 - 4. Varies according to surgery schedule We have access to a dodge caravan for transporting. Not fancy but solid.

#catlivesmatter #tnrworks #thankyou

Our TNR team was hard at work this weekend catching 21 cats from a SINGLE colony! There are 5 more to go and we are continuing to try and catch the last of them. We are going through a TON of wet food for surgery recovery. Anything pate or in gravy is preferred. #tnrworks

A foggy morning doesn't stop our volunteers from feeding our cat colony! Sampson (fluffly) and Spunky lead our feeder down the trail to the feeding station where Spicey waits for breakfast. We are grateful and thankful to our volunteers and donors for their support in helping this colony thrive. Very healthy kitties! We are ALWAYS accepting donations of dry and wet cat food for our colonies and those TNR caretakers who could use a little extra help this winter. #tnrworks

Little Toast is ready for his forever home. This sweet little cross-eyed guy is pretty small for his age, just 3lbs at 5 months old. What he lacks in size he makes up for with personality. Toast loves to be carried around but not so much sitting on a lap. He hates being alone so please have a friend to keep him company. Toast has never been outside so an indoor home is best for him. Toast enjoys trilling and chirping, eating treats and wet food and playing with any toy he can find! Toast has been neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, treated for fleas and microchipped. Share this post and let's find Toast a home!

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