Helping Community Cats
Operation Community Cats
Preliminary Results are in from Idaho Gives! OCC ranked #9 in the Small Organization category with $12,630 with more checks coming in the mail. We also ranked #4 in for the Unique Donors prize of $750. How about that?! Come all volunteers to help us fix more cats.
Our special thanks to OCC’s donation match supporters, Bark n’ Purr and an anonymous donor. We truly appreciate your generosity.
FREE FERAL FIX EM ALL YEAR
Operation Community Cats is paying for all Ada County feral cats and kittens spayed and/or neutered at the Idaho Humane Society SPOT clinic. Made possible with help from the Alley Cat Rescue, Pet Friendly License Plate, and Community Cat Podcast grants. Schedule appointments by calling (208) 331-3985 or email Ewest@idahohumanesociety.org.
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Stay tuned for Giving Tuesday coming up December 3rd!
A big thank you to Alley Cat Rescue
for the $2,500 TNR grant we received!
2023 Successes include OCC ended the year fixing at least 417 outdoor cats and kittens. We cannot always get receipts from the clinics that help us, so this number is actually much higher.
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We just received a $3,594.50 check from the Mondelez Tickets Support Charity for the 2023 Albertsons Boise Open. Even better news is that they invited Operation Community Cats to be one of the 40 charities to participate in the ticket sales for the 2024 golf tournament. Thank you all who chose OCC as your charity to support when you purchased tickets for the tourney.
Thank you to all the wonderful donors that have sent and/or left on our doorstep dry and wet cat food. Your generosity is greatly appreciated and we can always use more. With the extreme temperatures, mama cats giving birth to kittens, and additional colonies we support, we are in great need of cat and kitten food. Hard to believe, but kittens are being born now and all year long. Please visit our wishlists on Amazon and/or Chewy to help feed even more homeless outside cats.
OCC is actively working on new solutions for spaying, neutering, vaccinating, feeding, and providing medical care for homeless outside cats at no charge.
We rely on local veterinary clinics, like the SNIP clinic, to provide these services. Through September, we are funding two Feral Friday clinics per month for 70 cats to be fixed for free!
In addition, we currently have an arrangement with the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) SPOT clinic that allows caregivers to bring feral cats directly to the IHS clinic and OCC will cover the cost of the spay/neuter surgeries. Schedule appointments by calling (208) 331-3985 or email Ewest@idahohumanesociety.org.
Your gifts by mail, PayPal and Venmo make all these things possible.
Operation Community Cats
Email occidaho@gmail.com for mailing address.
Thank you for helping. Your gift will make a huge difference for these homeless cats and the community as a whole
You are a true hero!
Donors like you are the lifeblood of Operation Community Cats, an all volunteer non-profit organization.
OUR MISSION
To reduce the population of community cats through trap, spay, neuter and return.
Our Vision
A world where all cats live safely inside.
Services
We support homeless outside cats via the effective, humane TNR (trap-neuter-return) approach. OCC also provides cat food and some medical assistance to homeless outside cats.
For adoptions, please contact our partners on our resource page.
❤️ With your help, we were able to save many… including these abused kittens.❤️
WHAT IS A COMMUNITY CAT
According to ASPCA, “Community Cats” is a term used to describe outdoor, unowned, free-roaming These could be friendly, feral, adults, kittens, healthy, sick, altered and/or unaltered. They may or may not have a caregiver.
Free spays & neuters for all cats is our dream.
HOW TO HELP COMMUNITY CATS
- Give them shelter. Feral cats need a space where they can escape the rain and extreme temperatures of winter and summer.
- Feed them
- Quench their thirst
- Contact a rescue group practicing Trap-Neuter-Return
- Determine if cats are actually homeless, check for microchip at veternary clinic or local shelter
- Consider finding a home for a stray
What is TNR
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the humane approach to addressing community cat populations.
Safe Outdoor Enclosure for a Happy & Healthy Cat.
Click HERE to see video from Catio Spaces
Cats naturally want to be outside where they can breathe fresh air and experience the sights, sounds and stimulation of the natural world.
