08/13/2026
🐾 THIS Is What Community Collaboration Looks Like! ❤️
Every single day, kittens are being born outside in our community.
Under houses. Behind businesses. In sheds. Under porches. In drainage areas.
And too many of them eventually find their way to us sick, injured, underweight, orphaned, or needing medical care.
We don't want that anymore.
We don't want to keep waiting until kittens are already suffering before we step in.
We want to prevent the litter from being born in the first place. ❤️
That's exactly why our **Community Cat Program** matters.
Through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), outdoor community cats are humanely trapped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated for rabies, ear-tipped, and, when appropriate, returned to the communities they already call home.
And when we find friendly, adoptable cats and kittens along the way?
We work to give them a chance at a different life. 🐾
But every surgery costs money.
And this is where an AMAZING community collaboration comes in.
Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. is launching a fundraising campaign dedicated to helping support Dickinson's Community Cat Program, while our incredible partners at Animal Alliance of Galveston County are offering deeply discounted services to help every donated dollar go even further.
This is what working together looks like.
Animal Services provides the boots on the ground.
Animal Alliance helps make the veterinary care affordable.
Bayou Friends Forever helps fund the mission.
And our community helps keep it going. ❤️
Because TNR isn't just about the cats we're helping today.
It's about the kittens that won't be born outside tomorrow.
It's about fewer sick kittens arriving at the shelter needing medication and veterinary care.
Fewer injured cats.
Fewer overflowing kennels during kitten season.
Fewer resources spent responding to the same cycle year after year.
And ultimately, a healthier and more manageable community cat population throughout Dickinson.
This program is an investment in the future.
Doing the work on the front end—spaying, neutering, vaccinating and managing our community cat population—can help reduce the much greater costs associated with repeated litters, shelter intake, housing, feeding, vaccinations, medical treatment and placement.
Prevention makes sense.
For the cats.
For the shelter.
For our community.
And for our taxpayers. ❤️
Bayou Friends Forever now has a dedicated donation link specifically for Dickinson's Community Cat Program, and proceeds raised through this link will support this mission and help us continue getting community cats spayed/neutered and vaccinated.
🔗 HELP US GET DICKINSON'S COMMUNITY CATS HEALTHY:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/98XH5C69SJL8N
Whether it's $5, $25, $50, or simply sharing this post, you're helping create change that will reach far beyond the cat we trap today.
Healthy cats. Healthier colonies. Fewer litters. Less shelter intake.
And hopefully, someday...
far fewer tiny kittens arriving at our doors because life on the streets was already too hard. ❤️🐈
This is a long-term mission.
And we're ready to do the work.
Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. + Animal Alliance of Galveston County + Bayou Animal Services + our community.
🐾 Let's get Dickinson's community cats healthy.
Photo:
Alley Cat Allies
