FERAL CAT SPAY and NEUTER DAY - 80 Cats Spayed/Neutered!

On February 23, 2003 a very exciting event took place for the feral cats of our community! O’BRYONVILLE ANIMAL RESCUE (O.A.R.), The Greater Cincinnati Resource for Feral Cats, organized a SPAY and NEUTER day in an effort to help control the huge overpopulation of feral cats in our city. The day resulted in 80 cats getting fixed! 42 of these cats were female, so we’ve estimated that this one event prevented 220 homeless kittens born into our city!!!

The miserable weather did not stop volunteers across the city staying up nights to trap the cats in neighborhoods like Anderson, Clifton, Columbia-Tusculum, Pleasant Ridge, Madisonville, Roselawn, and Walnut Hills. The cats were kept safely and warmly in volunteer’s garages before and after the event, and then released back into their colonies. O.A.R. applies the same Trap-Neuter-Release program used by national organizations like Alley Cat Allies and the Feral Cat Coalition as a safe and humane animal control solution.

Of course O.A.R. could not have done this unbelievable event without the collaboration and help of many other wonderful people! United Coalition of Animals (U.C.A.N.) was there every minute to help run the operation smoothly! Dr. Paul Levitas, Dr. Bev Ramos, and Dr. Carrie Ellis from the Animal Hospital on Mt. Lookout Square and Dr. Zeke Zekoff from Towne Square Animal Clinic spayed and neutered all day long! Each vet and vet tech gave up their entire Sunday to administer their care and excellent veterinary skills to alter these feral cats! And of course the countless volunteers that trapped, cared for, carted, carried, cleaned, and monitored the cats all made the day a complete success!