Trap-Neuter-Return non-profit Bushwick Street Cats is in need of foster parents to accommodate a growing number of unhoused Bushwick street cats. BSC Treasurer Chris Glazier points out to Bushwick Daily that in the past they haven’t needed to constantly outsource foster homes but that the overflow happens “pretty much all the time these days.”

BSC recruits foster parents via Petfinder, Adopt-a-Pet, Craigslist, Instagram, Facebook, and joins weekly adoption events in Williamsburg.

Immediately aware of the overflowing cat population ubiquitous with Bushwick streets after Glazier and BSC President (and Glazier’s domestic partner) Jeannie Purvis moved to Bushwick in 2006, the two took in a pregnant kitten named Lucy. After Lucy gave birth and they adopted her litter out, Purvis and Glazier started the process again with more unhoused cats in the neighborhood. “Back in those days [the ASPCA] charged $25 per cat to fix,” says Glazier.