Community Cats Program
Best Friends for Life Community Cats Program assists both animals and people around our community by providing a variety of services to improve the lives of free-roaming and feral cats.
Community Cats are un-owned cats that live outdoors in the community. They may be feral or friendly, may have been born into the wild, or may be lost or abandoned pets.
Our community cats program provides assistance for stray and feral cats as well as aid for community members seeking help caring for both community and personal cats.
Benefits to the Community:
TNR helps the community by stabilizing the population of the feral colony and, over time, reduces it. Spayed/neutered cats cease behaviors that instigate complaints by people. Neutered males have no desire to mark their territory, so they stop spraying. Females never go into heat, so the yowling created by mating no longer occurs. Male cats stop fighting because there are no females in heat to fight over, and neutered males have no desire to mate even if a female in heat is in the area. The practice of TNR enables feral and outdoor cats to live their lives without adding to the overpopulation of homeless cats.
TNVR
Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) is a program in which free roaming cats are humanely trapped, spayed/neutered, vaccinated for rabies and other feline viruses, microchipped and then returned to their outdoor home to live out their lives. TNVR involves a caretaker who provides food, adequate shelter and monitoring of the cat’s health. TNVR has been shown to be the least costly most efficient and humane way of stabilizing community, feral, outdoor cat populations.
Community Cat Pantry
BFFL is aware that some families in our community might need assistance in feeding their beloved pets due to financial hardship.
We provide life essential supplies such as wet and dry food for 204 personal pets and over 1000 community/free-roaming cats in our City of Laredo every month!
Donations are always welcome in the form of dry or wet cat food. We will take open bags of fresh cat food.
Items can be dropped off at Cat Village daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Do you feed a colony of stray or feral cats?
Working Cats
Traditional home adoptions aren’t for every cat. Our Working Cat Program works to find outdoor homes for cats and kittens.
Why adopt a Working Cat?
They serve as excellent critter control – even if they are not particularly skilled hunters
Studies have shown that just the smell of cats on your property might even be enough to keep mice away
They are an eco-friendly solution to your vermin problems
They can be low-maintenance
They are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped
They have a waived adoption fee
And most importantly, it saves lives!
Check out our Working Cats
