Big Bend Pets saw a better way to reduce shelter cat populations. With the vision of a cat community in balance with the resources available, our mission is to reduce euthanasia and preserve scarce shelter resources.

Before Big Bend Pets, the existing effort was to rely on individuals to sterilize their own community cat colonies. In a community with only 6K residents, the local Alpine, Texas Shelter was housing over 60 cats with 200 cats euthanized by the end of 2019.

Established in October of 2019 we began to work WITH the colony keepers and we sterilized ALL the cats they feed. Our trained volunteers work with both the keepers and local animal control to trap, provide vet transport for surgery and rabies vaccination, and then return the cat to their home colony. This is a process known as TNR, Trap, Neuter, and Return.

Our results were immediate. The first year of operation, a decrease of 38% of euthanized cats. Our second year of operation, that number increased to 50% with a third less cats entering the local Alpine shelter at all!

We are a full service TNR provider and now have expanded into our neighboring communities of Marathon and Marfa in the Big Bend region of Texas.

2022 Big Bend Pets Patsy's FACEBOOK Birthday Fundraiser

By Big Bend Pets

2022 Big Bend Pets Patsy's FACEBOOK Birthday Fundraiser

Patsy's Birthday Fundraiser June 2, 2022

Team Members