About
Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic (OAR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating a progressive, compassionate community where cats can live their best lives. For over 25 years, we’ve worked to enrich the bond between cats and the people who care for them by providing affordable, high-quality services and support in an inclusive environment.
Originally founded as O’Bryonville Animal Rescue to address the needs of feral and community cats, we’ve grown into a vital resource for Greater Cincinnati. Today, our Madisonville-based facility offers:
Low-cost spay/neuter services for pets and community cats,
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs to humanely manage community cat populations
Inclusive Adoption services, matching cats with loving families
Outreach, education, and support to empower cat caregivers
At OAR, we believe every cat deserves safety, health, and happiness—and every community thrives when people and pets are supported. Together, we’re building a brighter future for cats and their people.
OAR’s low cost, high volume Spay/Neuter Clinic is based on the Humane Alliance model and our licensed veterinarians sterilized 8,278 cats in 2024. Since the beginning of 2020, OAR has spayed/neutered over 55,000 cats.
The Adoption Center
OAR’s Adoption Center is located in The Joanie Bernard Home for Cats. Dedicated staff and volunteers work to match cats and kittens with their people. In 2024, OAR adopted out 1,361 cats. Since the beginning of 2020, OAR has adopted out over 8,500 cats.
The Adoption Center does not take cats directly from the public at this time. Instead, OAR partners with other shelters to pull in cats who need help. This allows our partner organizations to better serve the community.
Once an OAR cat, always an OAR cat. In other words, if anything 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 fulfilling for cats and their people.
Lifesaving Partners
Corporate 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
