Have a barn? Adopt a barn cat!
Healthy, active young cats are ready and waiting to take up residence in your barn. They will perch in a safe spot and watch as you do your chores and provide environmentally safe and effective rodent control services! Most of these cats are stray or feral cats who are not socialized to humans and are looking for a safe place to call home but will thrive in a barn environment.
About the Barn Cats Program.
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Our Barn Cat program was started in 1993 when our founder Linda Weber started actively rescuing homeless community cats. Helping challenging cats appealed to Linda once Peg Banes, founder of Spay and Save, showed her the ropes.
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Barn cats are feral cats that live outdoors and control the rodent population of a property. These cats aren’t socialized like domestic house cats but that doesn’t mean they can’t live a good life! If given a proper barn home, they can hunt and pounce without worry of having a safe place to sleep.
How it Works
OUR PROCESS
We will gladly travel to approved barn homes to deliver our helpful mousers. All of our barn cats are spay/neutered, microchipped, fully vaccinations and combo tested. Our first contact will be to request a site visit. Our barn cat volunteers will come to your property and discuss with you the best area to set up the cats. Once that is approved and established, we will then return with our barn cats along with their acclimation cage and accessories. We provide our barn cats with a cozy "cat condominium" to live in for at least three to four weeks in their new location. The crate allows the cats to acclimate to their new home without the danger of them running away once released in search of their old stomping grounds. During this acclimation period, your help is necessary. Once the cats have been set up in their acclimation cages, we ask that you continue to provide fresh food and water and change litter as needed during the acclimation period.
ABOUT ADOPTIONS
If you have a barn home available, fill out the application below and we will be more than happy to discuss the process further with you.
All barn adoptions must be a minimum of two cats, though 3, 4 or more compatible cats can be adopted depending upon your needs and desires. Adopting barn cats is a way to help rescued cats in need of homes, control your rodent population and warm your heart, all at once!
We offer this service at no cost, although monetary donations are always welcome.
Other Resources
Comprehensive resources for TNR are provided online by Alley Cat Allies, a national non-profit. Have questions about TNR? You can get answers by clicking the button below for the Best Friends Frequently Asked Questions page.
While Stray Cat Blues is dedicated to effective TNR, we cannot guarantee that we can take on every request. For a list of other groups providing TNR and related services in Philadelphia and the surrounding regions, click the button below.
Looking for low-cost TNR?
Click below for a list of organizations in Pennsylvania that provides low-cost Trap-Neuter-Return services for animals.
Get in touch.
Fill out the Barn Cat Adoption application for more information.
This form is for Barn Cat adoptions only.
All barn adoptions must be a minimum of two cats, though 3, 4 or more compatible cats can be adopted depending upon your needs and desires. Adopting barn cats is a way to help rescued cats in need of homes, control your rodent population and warm your heart, all at once!