🎉 Operation Colony Cats is Now an Official Nonprofit! 🎉
We are thrilled to share that Operation Colony Cats (OCC) is now officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit!
What began as a small grassroots effort to help neighborhood cat colonies has grown into an organized network of fosters, trappers, transporters, and supporters making a real impact for cats and kittens in North Mississippi.
Our mission remains the same:
- Trap community cats—both feral and stray
- Neuter/Spay to prevent further litters
- Return them to their original location or place adoptable cats and kittens into foster care
Through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), foster and adoption programs, essential medical care, and community education, OCC works every day to reduce overpopulation, ease suffering, and give cats a second chance.
🌟 This Week’s Impact Report 🌟
August 2–8, 2025
🐾 This week alone: 39 spays and neuters — preventing countless future litters and helping reduce the pet overpopulation crisis in our communities.
📊 January 1 – August 8, 2025 Totals:
- 🐱 1,162 feline spays & neuters
- 🐶 137 canine spays & neuters
- 🚐 304 cats & kittens transported to our northern partner, Sweet Paws Rescue
- ❤️ 29 cats & kittens transported or adopted through Oktibbeha County Humane Society
- 🤝 9 cats & kittens transported with West Point Humane Society
💉 Medical Cases This Week
🐾 Patches – Arrived very pregnant with a broken pelvis that would have made giving birth impossible and likely fatal. She was safely spayed, and with six weeks of crate rest, her pelvis should heal.
🌈 Butterscotch – After a severe bout of Megacolon, the most compassionate choice was to let him cross the rainbow bridge peacefully.
🐾 Benjamin – Found huddled behind garbage cans along a busy highway in Reform, AL. He’s battling a URI and has a dislocated hip requiring FHO surgery.
🐾 Button – Working with shelter medicine veterinarians to determine the cause of her limited use of her back legs, possibly a spinal injury.
💛 Every number and every story represents lives changed — and none of this would be possible without our incredible fosters, trappers, transporters, donors, and supporters.
📢 If you’d like to help us continue providing care for cats like Patches, Butterscotch, Benjamin, and Button, donations of any size make a real difference.