Since 2019
Operation Community Cats
Our History
Operation Community Cats also known as OCC, is an Idaho 501 C3 non-profit. Our outside or community cat program was founded in early 2019. We are an all volunteer organization and dedicated to providing Humane TNR for lost, abandoned, stray and feral cats to reduce the over population of community cats.
Operation Community Cats volunteers have over 200 years experience in TNR (trap-neuter-return) and have helped to build several Catios (cat patios) in our valley.
One of our goals is to form a cat coalition with cat rescue group, shelters and cat loving individuals so we can work together toward our common causes for the community and the cats.
Coming together is the BEGINNING staying together is PROGRESS and working together is SUCCESS
Team
Our Board of Directors
Vacancy
President
Lou Ann Gaskell
Vice President
Lou Ann retired from HP where she spent 20 years as a software engineer. Prior to HP, she was principal flutist in a Florida regional orchestra.
Her family includes her husband, two daughters, a granddaughter, and a grandson. Lou Ann lives on a small acreage with eight cats, a Shorkie dog, and three Morgan horses. Animals have always been a part of her life, a cat named D.C. (That Darned Cat movie) being her first. Horses were her passion from an early age. She enjoys trail riding and cart driving, sometimes competing in area shows.
Lou Ann joined Diane Ayres in the early formation of SNIP and then became a volunteer for the Idaho Humane Society SPOT program focusing on the trapping, spaying/neutering, and returning (TNR) of feral cats.
These days, she focuses her volunteer time on teaching others how to trap and providing advice on feral cat care and socialization.
Cindi Boone
Secretary
Beulah Geren
Treasurer
Mary Wilson
Board Member
Michelle Glaze
Board Member
