Our Barn Cat Program
Common Questions
What are Barn Cats?
Barn Cats are healthy, sterilized cats that are semi-feral, meaning they don't want to live in a home and prefer outdoors, but they are too friendly to be released into the wild. Sometimes feral cats are also in our program due to being deemed medical unfit to go back outside, such as being FIV+, or having another long-term condition that requires human intervention. Instead, we employ these cats as "barn cats" to live at a farm, horse stable, warehouse, plant nursery, or other suitable outdoor location to be fed and cared for, while paying their rent as vermin control. Cats will keep rodents, snakes, bugs, etc away from food storage areas or plants.
What care will these cats have before they come to me?
Cats will be spayed and neutered, tested for feline leukemia, examined and deemed healthy by a veterinarian, rabies vaccinated, and vaccinated for distemper. They are also microchipped! They will stay in our care for a while before becoming adoptable so that we can properly assess their personalities, preferences, and what type of living situation they would thrive in.
What do I need to do to keep a barn cat?
The property owners only responsibility will be to provide daily food and water, protection from the elements, monthly heartworm and flea preventatives if the cat allows, and long-term vet care.
What are the requirements to apply?
There is an $20 placement fee per barn cat to help us recover some of the cost of veterinary care and supplies. Fill out the adoption application below to apply for a barn cat. Please fill one out even if we do not have any cats listed, since we have a constant influx of semi-feral cats and the wait list remains short.
Barn Cats are healthy, sterilized cats that are semi-feral, meaning they don't want to live in a home and prefer outdoors, but they are too friendly to be released into the wild. Sometimes feral cats are also in our program due to being deemed medical unfit to go back outside, such as being FIV+, or having another long-term condition that requires human intervention. Instead, we employ these cats as "barn cats" to live at a farm, horse stable, warehouse, plant nursery, or other suitable outdoor location to be fed and cared for, while paying their rent as vermin control. Cats will keep rodents, snakes, bugs, etc away from food storage areas or plants.
What care will these cats have before they come to me?
Cats will be spayed and neutered, tested for feline leukemia, examined and deemed healthy by a veterinarian, rabies vaccinated, and vaccinated for distemper. They are also microchipped! They will stay in our care for a while before becoming adoptable so that we can properly assess their personalities, preferences, and what type of living situation they would thrive in.
What do I need to do to keep a barn cat?
The property owners only responsibility will be to provide daily food and water, protection from the elements, monthly heartworm and flea preventatives if the cat allows, and long-term vet care.
What are the requirements to apply?
There is an $20 placement fee per barn cat to help us recover some of the cost of veterinary care and supplies. Fill out the adoption application below to apply for a barn cat. Please fill one out even if we do not have any cats listed, since we have a constant influx of semi-feral cats and the wait list remains short.
Do you want to be a foster for one of our barn cats? You can apply below!
We do not have any barn cats available at this time
