Texas Critter Crusaders is dedicated to filling the unmet needs of stray and abandoned companion animals in the Taylor, Texas community and surrounding rural areas. We provide funds for medical care and other services to animals at the City of Taylor, TX Animal Shelter so they can get adopted as well as have a healthy, humane quality of life while they await that adoption.
We also provide medical care and financial assistance to community members who are unable to secure the care necessary for their companion animals. Assisting community members with their companion animals helps keep animals out of the animal shelter. The median household income in Taylor is 35% lower than the rest of our county and 14% lower than the national median household income overall. This equates to food, housing, and other insecurities for our humans, and these insecurities trickle down to the owned and unowned pets in our community.
Additionally, we’ve been expanding our TNR program for street cats, providing spay and neuter services, medical needs for injured street cats, and we take in kittens from the TNR colonies for taming so that they can then go to the shelter for adoption.
WHAT WE NEED
Right now, the need for TNR funds is crucial! In 2025, we TNRd almost 350 cats and we’ve set a goal to TNR 500 cats for 2026. We currently have almost 500 cats on our TNR waiting list – and the list grows every day! Each TNR procedure costs about $75. If we could afford to book all available TNR appointments each week for the rest of the year, we could TNR roughly 900 cats! But we need the funds to do it!
We’re a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit! That means no one takes a paycheck and every dollar goes directly to the animals and to the services we provide them.
A donation of any amount will help us increase the impact of our TNR program as well as the rest of our work in the community.
Join us Dec 6th from 3–6pm in Heritage Square for our annual Pet Pics with Santa Fundraiser.Professional photographer DeeDee Yelverton is offering her skills to provide pet parents with a high-quality, professionally-edited picture for a donation of just $20!
We can’t believe it, but it’s almost December! That means #GivingTuesday is just around the corner on 12/02!
This year, Texas Critter Crusaders is proud to join the Greater Taylor Foundation for their #GiveTaylor campaign! The Greater Taylor Foundation enables people to support causes they care about in their local community, encouraging everyone to “give where they live!” This Giving Tuesday, keep it local and support the work we do by selecting us for your donation on December 2nd!
Every day, TCC steps up for our community’s stray and abandoned animals — and helps keep beloved pets with the families who love them. We’re an all-volunteer organization, which means every dollar goes directly to helping pets in Taylor and our surrounding rural communities.
You can make a difference by donating, sharing our #GiveTaylor posts, and encouraging friends and family to support our mission
On Saturday, September 13th, 2025, the Texas Critter Crusaders will hold its 5th annual SPAY-ghetti Dinner & Dance at Taylor SPJST Hallin Taylor, Texas. This event is an opportunity for our community to come together and support the animals currently awaiting adoption at the City of Taylor Animal Shelter, as well as community pets and TNR program
This Saturday, The Texas Critter Crusaders will have merch available for any donation to TCC. There are collars, jackets, costumes and more. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come meet the cutest, sweetest, most lovable pets on the planet!
Texas Critter Crusaders is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to paying for emergency medical care and more to help the animals at the Taylor, TX animal shelter.
Texas Critter Crusaders will be holding our first ever “Spay-ghetti Dinner & Dance” on March 21, 2020 from 5 – 10 p.m. The evening will start with Yappy-hour at 5 p.m . and then dinner will be served from 6-7 p.m. Following dinner, we’ll have a ton of fun dancing the night away to the tunes of Sterling Country with a raffle drawing half-way through. You will be able to purchase beer, wine and soft drinks from the bar.
Tickets are $20 for adults/$10 for kids if purchased in advance, or $25 for adults/$15 for kids at the door. Part of your ticket purchase is your first entry into the main raffle where we will have some really nice prizes! Additional raffle entries will be offered at the event. There is the possibility of a separate “special item” raffle that we will announce later. If you just can’t handle this much fun, we will have to-go only meal tickets for $10.
Purchase advance tickets through Eventbrite or in person (shoot us a message and we’ll make arrangements to deliver).
Make plans now to join us for this super fun event! Proceeds will help us continue our mission of providing for the urgent medical and preventive care of the shelter pets located at our local Taylor Animal Shelter, as well as spay/neuter services for community pets in need.
Texas Critter Crusaders will be holding our first ever “Spay-ghetti Dinner & Dance” on March 21, 2020 from 5 – 10 p.m. The evening will start with Yappy-hour at 5 p.m . and then dinner will be served from 6-7 p.m. Following dinner, we’ll have a ton of fun dancing the night away to the tunes of Sterling Country with a raffle drawing half-way through. Beer, wine and soft drinks will be available for purchase from the bar. Tickets are $20 for adults/$10 for kids if purchased in advance, or $25 for adults/$15 for kids at the door. Part of your ticket purchase is your first entry into the main raffle where we will have some really nice prizes! Additional raffle entries will be offered at the event. There is the possibility of a separate “special item” raffle that we will announce later. If you just can’t handle this much fun, we will have to-go only meal tickets for $10. Advance tickets may be purchased through Eventbrite or in person (shoot us a message and we’ll make arrangements to deliver).
Make plans now to join us for this super fun event! Proceeds will help us continue our mission of providing for the urgent medical and preventive care of the shelter pets located at our local Taylor Animal Shelter, as well as spay/neuter services for community pets in need.
I’m Lolly and I’m your PET OF THE WEEK! That’s right. The humans say I’m sweet as sugar, so they’ve given me this honor. How nice, right? First they give me a place to stay when I’m homeless and now they give me an award! I’m grateful, but I’m ready to move on and sweeten the life with my own forever family. Maybe it can be you? I’m great with kids of the human and canine variety.
PAWS UP to Terra Properties, Inc. for sponsoring my ad and for helping Texas Critter Crusaders help homeless dogs like me. We’re FUREVER grateful! ♥️ 🐾
MY DEETS: – Terrier mix – Female – Medium (20-60 pounds)
Make plans to find your new family member at Vintique Mall this Saturday, November 9, 2019. The Texas Critter Crusaders will have dogs, cats and kittens available for adoption from the City Of Taylor, Texas Animal Shelter from 11am to 2pm. Come meet the cutest, sweetest, most lovable pets on the planet!
November is “Adopt a Senior” month and we’ve got a special senior located at the City Of Taylor, Texas Animal Shelter looking for his forever family. His name is Sully. He was found at the tennis courts in Murphy Park and has been at the shelter since July 19. The fur on his neck was worn like he had a collar on at some point so he definitely belonged to someone. Sadly, nobody claimed him.
Sully is house broken and loves female dogs his size or larger. He has health issues that can only be managed. Despite his age and health, he is still chipper and happy. If you are able to help this sweet boy enjoy his final days, please contact the Taylor Animal Shelter (Taylor, TX) at 512-352-5483.
Sully began to show signs of an illness that included weight loss and coughing, as well as a fainting episode. So the shelter staff reached out to us for help and we had Graef Veterinary Hospital check him out. Of course he’s heart worm positive, as most dogs that enter the shelter are. But his cough was being caused by fluid accumulation in his lungs; something similar to pneumonia. They also found that he has a heart murmur and an enlarged heart. It’s hard to tell if those issues are caused by the heartworm infection or if they were pre-existing conditions since there is no way to tell how many worms a dog is infected with unless you subject them to open heart surgery which he is definitely not healthy enough for. Xrays also revealed that his abdomen was filled with nothing but gas which would explain why he was losing weight despite being fed a very healthy serving every day. No blockages though, so food was basically going right through him.
After consulting with the vet we came to the conclusion that Sully was not a candidate for neuter surgery or heartworm treatment at this time. All we could do was treat him for the fluid in his lungs with antibiotics. Our best guess on his age is between 10 and 15 years. While at the shelter, he has become increasingly stressed. To the point that while he is definitely potty trained (keeps his kennel spotless) and enjoys being indoors, he HATES having to go back in his kennel.
BUT after changing his food to a more digestion friendly formula, he’s begun to put some of that weight back on! He’s not done yet! SULLY WANTS TO LIVE HIS BEST LIFE!
Here is a short video of Sully. We are trying to find a hospice home for him ASAP. He is very people friendly, housebroken and loves walks/car rides. He has a bad heart and lungs due to heart worms and advanced age. The vet says he most likely won’t make it thru heart worm treatment, which would have to be done before he was neutered. He is medium size and weighs less than 40lbs. He will be fine in a home with female dogs his size or larger, no cats though. If you are interested in helping him, please contact the shelter at 512-352-5483 for more.
Here is a short video of Sully. We are trying to find a hospice home for him ASAP. He is very people friendly, housebroken and loves walks/car rides. He has a bad heart and lungs due to heart worms and advanced age.
If you can give Sully an inside home that is somewhat calm (he faints when he gets overly excited) where he can live out his life, please contact the Taylor Animal Shelter at 512-352-5483 or send us a message. A meet and greet with your dog(s) prior to him going home with you is required as well as proof of spay, no exceptions. Once he’s settled in after a month or two, we’ll have him re-evaluated at our vet (no cost to you) to see if there has been any change in his prognosis. Since this is a situation where he likely won’t be able to undergo any treatment for his conditions, Texas Critter Crusaders will be there to help with any medical costs his health may require.
Please share this so we can get Sully out of the shelter for how ever much time he has left.
Texas Critter Crusaders will be holding our first ever “Spay-ghetti Dinner & Dance” on March 21, 2020 from 5 – 10 p.m. The evening will start with Yappy-hour at 5 p.m . and then dinner will be served from 6-7 p.m. Following dinner, we’ll have a ton of fun dancing the night away to the tunes of 
