For over 25 years, Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic (OAR) has been on the frontlines of feline welfare in Greater Cincinnati. What began in 1998 as a small, neighborhood effort in O’Bryonville to help local stray and feral cats has grown into a trusted organization that helps cats across the region—and beyond.
Guided by our vision of a progressive community where cats can live their best lives, we work to provide affordable services and support to cats and their people in an inclusive environment. We believe that every cat—whether a beloved pet, a community cat, or one still waiting for a home—deserves safety, health, and happiness.
Originally named O’Bryonville Animal Rescue, our founders recognized that to truly help the cats they saw on the streets, they had to address the root of the problem. They embraced Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as the most humane solution to population control, while simultaneously building a rescue to find homes for the kittens and friendly cats born into those colonies.
In 2008, we moved to our current facility and took a monumental leap forward. We began operating our own high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter clinic. This allowed us to scale our impact drastically, providing affordable care not just to community cats and owned pets, but to rescues and shelters struggling to manage costs and keep up with surgery needs. By 2009, the clinic was operating full-time, and we officially changed our name to Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic to reflect our expanded mission.
At OAR, our mission remains simple yet profound: provide affordable services and support to cats and their people in an inclusive environment. Because when cats and their people are supported, entire communities thrive. Together, we’re building that brighter future—one cat, one family, one neighborhood at a time.
OAR’s low cost, high volume Spay/Neuter Clinic is based on the Humane Alliance model and our licensed veterinarians sterilized 10,256 cats in 2025. Since 2009, OAR has spayed/neutered over 150,000 cats.
Our Adoption Center
Located in the Joanie Bernard Home for cats, OAR’s Adoption Center strives to set the standard for for feline sheltering practices, providing a low-stress, enriching environment where cats can be cats while they wait for their new family, and members of the community feel welcomed. Our dedicated staff and volunteers treat every cat like their own, and work to understand each cat’s personality to ensure a thoughtful match between those cats and their new home.
OAR does not take cats directly from the public at this time. Instead, we partner with other shelters to pull in cats who need help, allowing our partner organizations to better serve their own communities. We’re proud to work alongside our fellow rescues to expand the safety net for cats across the region.
Once an OAR cat, always an OAR cat. If life circumstances ever prevent adopters from keeping a cat they adopted from us, that cat is always welcomed back. Our commitment to our cats doesn’t end at adoption.
Medical & Foster Care Center
The first stop for every cat entering our care, the MFCC is where we build the roadmap to a new life. Our team assesses each cat’s medical and behavioral needs, creating plans to ensure they are healthy and happy before moving forward in their journey.
This is also where we welcome our foster families, who play a critical role in getting cats from “day one intake” to “adoption ready”! Within the MFCC, we perform intake examinations, develop medical plans, house working cats waiting for placement, match loving foster homes with cats in need, provide services for our Vaccine Clinic, perform life-saving surgeries, and so much more.
Spay/Neuter Clinic
At the heart of our mission is our Spay/Neuter Clinic. We believe that the single most effective way to address feline homelessness and euthanasia is to stop unwanted litters before they happen. That’s why we’ve made it our priority to offer accessible, affordable spay/neuter to every cat.
Our Clinic is modeled after the Humane Alliance standard of care, a nationally respected framework that prioritizes both efficiency and safety in high-volume settings. Our surgical team consists of licensed veterinary, registered veterinary technicians, and trained veterinary assistants who are experts in high-quality, high-volume care.
Our clinic services a wide range of patients: owned pets, community cats brought in through TNR efforts, and cats from rescues and shelters. We welcome everyone with warmth and respect, believing that financial constraints should never be a barrier to providing care.
