All About Fixin'

04/05/2026

Reach out to Adopt a Barn Cat today to book your spay/neuter appointment! No one has room to take in kittens next month or the month after that or the month after that… so take advantage of this low cost event!

Saturday, April 11th, 2026, Adopt a Barn Cat and Friends of the Animals are hosting our Caturday - Mega Spay/Neuter Day for outdoor, feral and community cats.

Our fee of $55 covers the cost for Spay/Neuter surgery, rabies vaccination, ear tip, 30 day flea prevention and pain meds.
Additional charges for female cats in heat ($10) or pregnant ($20) or cryptorchid males ($30) will be applied.

Each cat must arrive in a humane trap.
One cat per trap. We have traps to loan.

Message us through Facebook to schedule an appointment. We will take appointments for 75 cats.

Surgeries are performed at Friends of the Animals located at 122 Old Gun Barrel Lane, Suite 8, Gun Barrel City, TX 75156.

Arrival times will be scheduled between 6:00am and 8:30. Cats will be ready to go home once they're awake - generally between 11am and 2:00pm.

Limited sponsorships are available based on colony size and needs.

If you would like to make a donation to sponsor a surgery for someone who cannot afford it, we can accept Venmo or PayPal
Venmo username is AdoptABarnCat
Paypal username is AdoptaBarnCatTX
Please note that the PayPal username needs to include TX at the end to come to us.

02/21/2026

TCAP offers FREE feral fixes to the first 12 feral cats at each open clinic each day to help reduce the wild cat population and keep new litters out of animal shelters.
Some Feral Cat FAQs👇
🐈A feral cat is a cat that does not like, or is scared of human interaction. They are brought to TCAP in live traps and do not allow themselves to be held or placed in cat carriers.
🐈‍⬛Feral cats will have their ears tipped after surgery to identify them as a feral who has already been fixed, and does not need to be trapped for spay or neuter by animal control.
🐈What about cats that live outdoors but interact with us? These community cats would not be considered feral, as they have grown used to human interaction and could be adoptable or domesticated outdoor cats. Feral cats are considered cats that would never be adoptable because of their wild behavior.
🐈‍⬛ Can I use a cat carrier instead of a live trap? No, except for on special bulk free days. Feral cats are caught in live traps because they cannot be handled by people. They are vaccinated and anesthetized through the live trap, then only handled for surgery once they are unconscious.
🐈 Why do you fix feral cats for free but not domesticated ones? Feral cats are out in the wild, not monitored by people or kept indoors where we can limit their interaction with other cats. Because of this, a feral cat can have kittens as early as 4 months old, and have up to 2-3 litters each and every year of their life! Those kittens have more litters and the cycle continues with exponential feral/wild cat population growth. TCAP offers the first 12 free at each clinic daily to help fight this issue.
🐈‍⬛What if I want to adopt a feral cat? If you are able to eventually domesticate a feral cat and get them accustomed to human interaction, then that is fantastic! However, any cat with an ear tip will always need to be placed under anesthesia for vaccines or care at TCAP.
🐈What if I trap a cat but I am not the first 12 that day for free? We offer a discounted fix rate of only $20 per feral cat by appointment and will schedule them as soon as we can!
🐈‍⬛Read more at https://bit.ly/4s12wGS

02/21/2026

Saturday, March 21st, 2026, Adopt a Barn Cat and Friends of the Animals are hosting our Caturday - Mega Spay/Neuter Day for outdoor, feral and community cats.
Our fee of $55 covers the cost for Spay/Neuter surgery, rabies vaccination, ear tip, 30 day flea prevention and pain meds.
Additional charges for female cats in heat ($10) or pregnant ($20) or cryptorchid males ($30) will be applied.
Each cat must arrive in a humane trap.
One cat per trap. We have traps to loan.
Message us through Facebook to schedule an appointment. We will take appointments for 100 cats.
Surgeries are performed at Friends of the Animals located at 122 Old Gun Barrel Lane, Suite 8, Gun Barrel City, TX 75156.
Arrival times will be scheduled between 6:15am and 8:30. Cats will be ready to go home once they're awake - generally between 11am and 2:00pm.
Limited sponsorships are available based on colony size and needs.
If you would like to make a donation to sponsor a surgery for someone who cannot afford it, we can accept Venmo or PayPal
Venmo username is AdoptABarnCat
Paypal username is AdoptaBarnCatTX
Please note that the PayPal username needs to include TX at the end to come to us.

02/13/2026

We miss JD but we're so happy he found his forever home and is recovered, healthy, and happy! ❤️

02/12/2026

Let’s focus on the ladies! 💕 Make sure to schedule your girl’s surgery before she’s five months old. Send this post to a friend who has a female kitten!

02/12/2026

💕 Feline Fact Friday 💕

One unspayed cat and her offspring can lead to hundreds of kittens in just a few years. 😿

That’s not love—that’s heartbreak. 💔

💗 Prevention saves lives.

Spay/Neuter are real acts of love.

Find low-cost spay/neuter clinics here:

➡️Spay USA - https://www.animalleague.org/get-involved/spay-usa/

➡️United Spay Alliance - https://www.unitedspayalliance.org/state-local/program-locator-map/

02/12/2026

🐾 Spring kittens are already on the way!

Cats don’t wait for warm weather to get pregnant. Many outdoor cats are pregnant right now, which means kittens will start arriving very soon.

If you’re feeding outdoor or community cats, now is the critical window to act.

👉 Request spay/neuter resources now
👉 Get on clinic waitlists early
👉 Reach out for trapping help, loaner traps, or guidance

Waiting until kittens are visible is often too late—and leads to more cats, more suffering, and fewer resources to go around.

Spaying a cat before kittens are born:
• Prevents litters from being born into hardship
• Protects mom’s health
• Reduces the overall community cat population
• Saves limited rescue and foster resources for cats who truly need them

If you care for outdoor cats, you are already part of the solution. Taking action now makes the biggest impact.

📩 Need help or resources? Ask early.

If you're in the Charlotte, NC area, visit our website to find information and/or to contact us.

🐱 The best time was yesterday. The next best time is NOW.

02/07/2026

***Update: White Knight and Princess were adopted together!!! Thank you for all of the likes and shares to get these sweet babies in front of more people so they could find their forever home!!***

✨ **Two Sweet Siblings Desperately Need a Home** ✨

Meet **White Knight** and **Princess** — an adorable brother–sister duo about 8 months old who are hoping their forever family finds them soon 💔➡️🏡
👉 They can be adopted together or separately — the most important thing is that they each find loving homes.

🤍 White Knight
• Pure white, fixed male and vaccinated
• One blue eye + one green eye (total heart-stopper!)
• A total lap cat who loves attention
• Going to be a big boy with an even bigger heart

🌸 Princess
• Dilute tortie female, fixed and vaccinated
• Smaller than her brother but full of personality
• Curious, playful and sweet once she warms up

These two are ready to settle into homes where they can be loved, spoiled, and cherished. They are desperately needing a home and have so much love to give.

If you’ve been thinking about adding a cat (or two!) to your family, this is your sign 🐾
Please comment or message if you can help, share to spread the word, or know someone looking for the perfect feline companion(s) 💕

Located in Athens, TX

01/30/2026

Book your spots today to prevent spring kittens!!

El sábado 7 de febrero de 2026, Adopt a Barn Cat y Friends of the Animals organizarán nuestro Caturday: un día de esterilización y castración masiva para gatos callejeros, salvajes y comunitarios.

Nuestra tarifa de $55 cubre el costo de la cirugía de esterilización/castración, la vacuna contra la rabia, el corte de la punta de la oreja, la prevención de pulgas durante 30 días y analgésicos.

Se aplicarán cargos adicionales para gatas en celo ($10), gatas preñadas ($20) o machos criptórquidos ($30).

Cada gato debe llegar en una jaula de transporte adecuada.
Un gato por jaula. Disponemos de jaulas para prestar.

Envíanos un mensaje a través de Facebook para programar una cita. Atenderemos a 100 gatos.

Las cirugías se realizarán en Friends of the Animals, ubicado en 122 Old Gun Barrel Lane, Suite 8, Gun Barrel City, TX 75156.

Los horarios de llegada se programarán entre las 6:15 a. m. y las 8:30 a. m. Los gatos estarán listos para irse a casa una vez que se despierten, generalmente entre las 11:00 a. m. y las 2:00 p. m.

Hay patrocinios limitados disponibles según el tamaño y las necesidades de la colonia.

01/29/2026

Yes!! That ear tip is a badge of honor and shows how much someone cared! Let’s see those ear tipped cats in the comments from all of you that cared 😻

Someone cared enough…
That’s what the corner of that cat’s ear being tipped (cut off) means. Someone cared enough. Enough to take time out of their day for that wild cat. To load up trapping supplies, go to the trapping location, set traps, monitor traps, and wait hours in most cases to fill traps. Then to bring them home in the traps and get them set up somewhere overnight and care for them. To drive them to the vet the next day, wait in line, and check them in for surgery. To pay (or get vouchers) for them to be spayed/neutered and vaccinated. If they are extra nice, they pay extra for flea meds and dewormer, knowing it will only last a month, but knowing that might be the only month of reprieve they have in their whole life from being eating alive. They care enough to drive back the next day and pick them up from the vet and in most cases house them for a day or two for recovery. In that time they care for them and make sure they are healing from surgery well. Then they drive them back to the trapping location and release them back to their outdoor home. From there, back home to clean and wash the traps and supplies to be ready for next time. This takes HOURS. Hours for a feral street cat that so many people hate.
So that feral cat you see out there with an ear tip, someone cared enough to take the time to give them a better life. To stop the cycle. To try to tackle the overpopulation and suffering. To help curb the testosterone driven territorial fights and spraying. To help that female not get pyometria from having litter after litter until she dies. To try to keep the numbers down so less people threaten their lives.
That indoor cat with the ear tip…someone cared a little extra. They saw that cat had potential to thrive in a life off the streets and they gave them that chance. They worked with them to overcome their fears so they wouldn’t live that harsh street life with a much shorter life expectancy than indoor cats.
That ear tip is how us trappers identify a cat that has already been spayed/neutered. It is a quick way to look at a feral cat and know if they have been fixed or not. This helps us not trap the same cats and send them through the stress of transport to the vet repeatedly, because we can see they have already been fixed. If a cat with an ear tip ends up in the trap, we can just release them immediately and keep trying until we get a cat that is not ear tipped.
Some people don’t like how the ear tip looks, or how painful it might be (it’s done under anesthesia during their spay/neuter surgery)… But that ear tip is a badge of honor. Someone cared enough.

Written by:
Amanda Rumble
Community Cat Care

01/25/2026

This storm has brought some seriously extreme cold and ice/sleet to Texas ❄️🥶
We’re incredibly thankful we’ve kept power through it all, so the heat lamps and heating pads for our outdoor kitties have stayed on. 🐾❤️

Here are just some of the shelters we use for our 13 barn cats, plus we keep our detached laundry room open with a heat source inside so they always have a warm place to escape the cold. I did have to defrost their water this morning, and I’m checking on everyone every few hours to make sure they’re safe and comfortable.

We also added a few pictures of our turkey, Big Tony, our donkey, Charlie Brown, and our goats enjoying the “snow” ❄️🐐🦃

How is everyone else holding up out there? Let’s see your kitty shelters and cold-weather setups! 🐱🏠👇

Stay warm and safe, friends. 💙