About

Mission Statement:
Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission is to enrich the lives of cats and communities in Greater Cincinnati by providing low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services for ferals, strays and pets; offering TNR (trap-neuter-return) and other outreach programs; and running a no-kill adoption center dedicated to finding loving homes.

OAR helps cats and communities. Twenty-five years ago, O’Bryonville Animal Rescue started to help people spay and neuter feral cats and find permanent indoor homes for friendly community cats.

Now, OAR stands for Ohio Alleycat Resource and Spay/Neuter Clinic. Its home has changed to Madisonville, and its mission has greatly expanded. 

Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay / Neuter Clinic

OAR’s low cost, high volume Spay/Neuter Clinic is based on the Humane Alliance model and its licensed veterinarians sterilized 11,515 cats in 2022 alone. It also serves the community by providing a regular low-cost vaccine clinic to the public.

The Adoption Center

The Joanie Bernard Home for Cats is OAR’s adoption center. Dedicated staff and volunteers work to match cats and kittens with their people. In 2022, OAR adopted out 1,519 cats.

The adoption center does not take cats from the public, but instead pulls animals at risk of euthanasia from other shelters. 

However, once an OAR cat, always an OAR cat. In other words, if anything at all happens that prevents adopters from keeping the cats or kittens they adopted from OAR, those cats are always welcomed back.

Cat people are everywhere. So are cats. Our goal at Ohio Alleycat Resource is to make life happier, healthier, and more fulfilled for cats and their people.

Lifesaving Partners

Community Partners

OAR is grateful for the support of community members and businesses–the work OAR does would not be possible without these wonderful people.

  • Alfio’s Buon Cibo
  • ASI Signage
  • American Sign Museum
  • Aronoff Center for the Arts
  • Aster
  • Bee’s BBQ
  • Behringer Crawford Museum
  • Booz, Allen, Hamilton
  • Bouquet
  • Buffalo Trace
  • Care Center
  • Cars 4 Good
  • chewy.com
  • Chipotle
  • Cincinnati Art Museum
  • Cincinnati Ballet
  • Cincinnati Landmark Productions
  • Cincinnati Marathon, Inc.
  • Cincinnatus Insurance LLC
  • coolsisters
  • Cork ‘N Bottle
  • CYCLEBAR
  • Dewey’s Pizza
  • The Dilly Deli
  • Donna Salyers Fabulous Furs
  • Trisha Durham
  • The Echo Restaurant
  • Elemental Om
  • Essex Studios
  • French Rendez-vous
  • Fox 19
  • Frazier History Museum
  • Fur Reality
  • Richard E. Godfrey DDS
  • Grand Finale
  • Hello Sunshine Yoga
  • Kenton County Public Library
  • Leapin’ Lizard Event Center
  • Liberty Veterinary Hospital
  • Listermann Brewing Company
  • Lucky Cat Museum
  • MedVet
  • Oreo’s Commissions
  • Park + Vine
  • PetSmart
  • Pet Wants
  • Pies and Pints
  • Pinot’s Palette
  • Pleasant Ridge Pet Hospital
  • Plonk Productions
  • Remke
  • Ringtail Café Productions
  • Riverview Animal Hospital
  • Ross Design
  • Solutions Unlimited Marketing and Sales Promotion Company, Inc.
  • Sottile and Barele
  • Stitch Boots
  • Streetside Brewery
  • Studio Lince
  • Taft Museum of Art
  • Taglio
  • Tokyo Kitty
  • Tomahawk Traps
  • WAVE Foundation
  • World Equestrian Center

Volunteer Groups That Support OAR 

  • the dd+p group
  • Great American Insurance
  • #Kindflash 
  • Lighthouse Community School
  • Norwood High School 
  • Phi Mu-University of Cincinnati

Foundations and Organizations That Support OAR 

  • Amazon Smile Foundation
  • Austin Pets Alive
  • Best Friends Animal Society
  • Bernice Barbour Foundation
  • Maggie Homan Beckmeyer Family Foundation
  • The Joanie Bernard Foundation
  • Cambridge Charitable Foundation
  • Rafael De Acha and Kimberly Daniel De Acha Foundation
  • Evelyn W. Dunn Charitable Trust
  • The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
  • Robert A. and Marion K. Kennedy Charitable Trust
  • The Kroger Foundation
  • Maddie’s Fund
  • The George and Margaret McLane Foundation
  • Agnes Nordloh Charitable Trust
  • Ohio Animal Foundation
  • On Shore Foundation
  • Petco Foundation
  • Petfinder Foundation
  • PetSmart Charities
  • Robert H. Reakirt Foundation
  • The Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust
  • United Pet Fund
  • J. Frederick & Helen B. Vogel Charitable Trust
  • Teresa Wong Charitable Foundation
  • Ohio Pet Fund
  • Bissell Pet Foundation