Nominations for the 2024 Toby Franks Community Cat Champion Award

Do you know of someone who has done an extraordinary job of working (e.g., trapping, caretaking, spay-neuter services, veterinary care, shelter-based programs, leadership, education, research) on behalf of Ohio’s community cats? Please let us know by nominating him or her for the 2024 Toby Franks Community Cat Champion Award (sponsored by the Rascal Unit Charities).

2023 Photo Contest submissions are due by March 3!

Submissions are open for the 2023 Photo Contest. To enter, email up to three photos to: communitycatsohio@gmail.com Contest Rules: The deadline to enter is March 3, 2023. Limit of three (3) submitted original photos per entrant. Ensuring the absence of copyright and/or trademark infringements is the responsibility of the photo contest entrant. Photos must be Read More …

The Together Initiative and OAA release Ohio Community Cat Resource State of the State report

“Identifying Ohio’s Community Cat Resources: A State of the State Report, 2023” is now available. The report, which is the result of research funded by Ohio Animal Advocates (OAA), provides a directory of community cat spay-neuter and trap-neuter-return (TNR) services by county and an assessment of the current community cat resource landscape in Ohio. The Read More …

Congratulations to Don Burrier – 2021 Together Initiative/Toby Franks Community Cat Champion

Congratulations to the 2021 Together Initiative/Toby Franks Community Cat Champion honored at the Ohio Community Cat Summit: DON BURRIER of North Canton! Before retiring, Don was the director of the Elyria Public Library. He is a former board member of the Friendship APL (1980s) in Lorain County. Don has managed and cared for countless outdoor Read More …

Dan Spehar and Peter Wolf publish, The Impact of Return-to-Field and Targeted Trap-Neuter-Return on Feline Intake and Euthanasia at a Municipal Animal Shelter in Je fferson County, Kentucky

Dan Spehar and Peter Wolf recently published The Impact of Return-to-Field and Targeted Trap-Neuter-Return on Feline Intake and Euthanasia at a Municipal Animal Shelter in Jefferson County, Kentucky in the journal, Animals, to examine changes in feline euthanasia and intake, as well as additional shelter metrics, at a municipal animal shelter after an RTF program Read More …

Nominations open for the 2023 Toby Franks Community Cat Champion Award!

Do you know of someone who has done an extraordinary job of working (e.g., trapping, caretaking, spay-neuter services, veterinary care, shelter-based programs, leadership, education, research) on behalf of Ohio’s community cats? Please let us know by nominating him or her for the 2023 Toby Franks Community Cat Champion Award (sponsored by the Rascal Charities).