City News
Free Barn Cats
Georgetown Animal Shelter is offering free barn cats for anyone that has a farm or ranch and would like some help with rodent control. The cats will be spayed/neutered and given their rabies vaccination.
Semi-feral is a term used to describe animals that are not completely socialized to humans. Because of this, these cats are not meant as house pets, but can live a productive life “earning their keep” by providing their owners with very effective pest control.
“This program was created to give feral cats an option to find a home. These cats, through no fault of their own, have not been socialized, but they can be incredibly hard-working additions to area farms and ranches,” says Jackie Carey, animal shelter director.
To get a new mouse-catcher to feel at home on your farm or ranch, it helps to have some sort of way to keep them confined to the barn area for a couple of weeks until they realize that this new place is a safe home.
Please call before stopping by. The shelter will schedule to have the cat spayed or neutered before it can be adopted, and there may be a wait list for your new feline farm-hand depending on the number of available cats at the shelter.
For more information, call Georgetown Animal Shelter at (512) 930-3592 or email Jackie.Carey@georgetown.org.
Posted in Animal Services, City Hall, Police Services
Print This Post
4 Responses to “Free Barn Cats”
We were so excited to see the free barn cats since we have a need for a cat that can protect themselves and our barn on our 25 acres. After calling first and driving over an hour to Georgetown, my daughter was presented with a very rude lady who said the cats were not availalbe. I called and was also treated very rudely – in fact she hung up on me. She says she is the only one there – July 20 at 2:00 – and whoever she is – is not representating the City well.
I’m sorry if you were not given the correct information when you called here. We do not have the cats altered until we get a request for them. I am the Manager and I spoke to your daughters when they were here after they spoke to one of our volunteers. I explained to your daughters the procedure and said we would be happy to give them feral cats as soon as we had them ready. I will speak to the volunteer that talked to your daughters. If you would like to email me or call me I would be happy to speak to you.
Sincerely,
Jackie Carey
Animal Services Manager
512-930-3592
Thank you for providing this service, it sounds like the program will save some lives.
Laurie, we have barn cats that are ready to go! Check us out at http://www.texasbarncats.org and please fill out the interest survey form. The Georgetown area is within our service area.