Our Mission
Get adoptable stray cats off the streets and into homes
Manage stray cat colonies
The stray cat problem in Ottawa is significant and twofold: feral cat colonies exist all over the city and are not managed in part because there are no public-accessible spay/neuter-and-release programs. These colonies grow ever larger when pet cats are not neutered or spayed, and are abandoned, lost, or allowed to be outside to breed with ferals and other strays.
About OSCatR
OSCatR is a registered Canadian Charity (No. 83641 4573 RR0001), no-kill volunteer-run cat rescue based in Ottawa, Ontario, established in 2011. OSCatR does not have a shelter or central facility, and all cats are in loving foster homes allowing the cats more freedom to be cats. This helps maximize the use of funds and donations.
We take in only stray, abandoned and community cats. If you know of a stray or community cat in need of help, please fill out the Intake or TNR form and we will do our best to bring the cat in as soon as possible.
Our Cats for Adoption
At any given time, OSCatR has 50-100 cats available for adoption. All these cats are in foster homes and have been assessed for temperament and health, and all see a vet as soon as possible to be vaccinated, microchipped and spayed/neutered. We take care to ensure that homes and cats are well-suited to each other.
Our Community Cats
OSCatR feels that community cats deserve the best life possible, even if that life is outdoors. Community members make this possible by feeding and monitoring community cats, which are humane-trapped by OSCatR, spayed/neutered, microchipped and returned back into the colony. OSCatR does not test for FIV or FeLV; instead, we spay/neuter to prevent the spread of these diseases as much as possible.
Our Impact
We were curious to see what kind of impact we’ve had so far on the cat population in Ottawa, so we had a statistical simulation done on our data. From 2011 – 2013 we’ve spayed 173 female cats.
That translates into preventing approximately 63,000 possible strays/ferals from being born in the Ottawa region. Amazing right?
That figure is based on:
20% annual mortality rate (after weaning age)
3 litter per year, per female
average of 12 kittens per year, per female
15% loss rate of kittens before weaning
46.5% of all kittens born being female
It was a 5 year simulation