The Metro Animal Services shelter has created a new program to rehome outdoor cats to barns and garages where they work as rodent hunters.  The goal of the program is to prevent free-roaming cats from uncontrolled breeding, by ensuring that the cats are spayed/neutered and then placing them with property owners that are best suited for working cats.

Applications to adopt a barn cat are available online or at the shelter; please print the form, fill it out completely, and bring it to the shelter or email it to us at pets@sumnerwa.gov.  Our adoption staff will work with you to ensure that the area you live in allows for barn cats and that you are able to provide safe shelter, as well as a dependable source of food and fresh water on your property.

Thanks to the support of Friends At Your Metro Animal Shelter and Pasados Spay Station, our barn cats are available at no charge to you.  To see the cats available for adoption, please visit our website and look for cats noted as “Barn Cats”.

Questions? Contact us at pets@sumnerwa.gov or call 253-299-PETS (7387)