https://www.oaklandtnrcoalition.org/

Oakland TNR Coalition, Pittsburgh, PA (2026)

10/08/2026

🎃👻 WE’RE GETTING SPOOKY AT THE KAMIN SCIENCE CENTER! 👻🎃

Join us TOMORROW, October 9 from 6–10 PM for the Kamin Science Center 21+ Night: Haunted Science Center!

We’ll be bringing along some very spooky (and very cute) guests, including black kitties Belmont & Sterling, a pair of surprise kittens, and, most importantly, Diesel!

Diesel is our main fundraising goal for the night. He has a recurring ear polyp and CT showed severe inflammation and infection, and he needs a ventral bulla osteotomy (VBO) surgery on October 21. We’re hoping to raise $1,200 toward his surgery!

Come have a hauntingly good time with us while you meet Diesel & friends, shop our merch, spin the wheel to win prizes, donate to help Diesel get the care he needs, and enjoy a night full of haunts, ghosts, tricks and treats!

Come for the spooky science, stay for the cats, and help us get Diesel one step closer to surgery!

We’ll see yinz Friday! 🎃🐈‍⬛

*Tickets for the night are available on the Science Center website!*

10/05/2026

🐢 HAPPY TAILS, KITTY! 🐢

Kitty the turtle has officially recovered from her surgery to remove the fishing hook from her throat and finished all of her medications like an absolute champ, thanks to her rescuer and foster, Cedar!

And even more excitingly, yesterday Kitty made the journey ALL the way from Pittsburgh to Sunbury thanks to Nick and Jenn, who got her safely to her new home with Chris and Shannon!

Chris and Shannon are experienced exotic animal owners, with everything from turtles and tortoises to frogs, lizards, birds, and beyond, so we know Ms. Kitty is in VERY good hands. She’ll have an awesome big indoor pond setup where she can live her best life comfortably, safely, and, most importantly, fish hook free!!

What a silly little side quest for a cat rescue. But hey, another day, another little life saved. And isn’t that the goal? No matter the species, fuzzy, furry, feathered, or covered in scales, it doesn’t matter to us. We’re going to help when we can!

(Although we are definitely sticking to cats and the occasional timestamped doggy from here on out lol)

Please, universe, DO NOT let any of us traverse the Mon in muck pants ever again.

10/03/2026

NEW TNR AND CAT ASSISTANCE WAITLIST

We’ve been completely flooded with requests for TNR and cat assistance. We’re grateful people trust us with their communities, but our current system isn’t sustainable.

So we’re officially starting a TNR and Cat Assistance Waitlist!

Need help? Start by filling out our new Cat Help Request Form, found at the link tree in our bio or website under “Cat Help Request.” This applies to anyone requesting assistance, including colony caretakers referred to us by volunteers.

Requests will generally be handled in the order received, but we’ll also use a triage system. Kittens, pregnant cats, sick/injured cats, and other urgent situations may be prioritized.

Submitting the form does NOT automatically put you on the waitlist. We’ll review each request first. If we can add it to our waitlist, you will receive next steps and our new TNR & Cat Assistance Agreement, which must be signed before you are officially added.

The agreement establishes some important expectations, including:

Friendly cats and socializable kittens trapped through our assistance become OTNRC property and enter our foster/adoption program. They will not be returned outdoors.

Truly feral cats will be returned to their original location after TNR, with the caretaker remaining responsible for ongoing food, water, shelter, and monitoring.

Caretakers must follow OTNRC’s trapping, feeding, medical, and colony-management instructions or risk removal of our services.

OTNRC is not obligated to provide updates on cats or kittens once they are in our foster program.

For now, our assistance waitlist is limited to locations within Pittsburgh city limits.

This system isn’t about helping fewer cats. It’s about creating a sustainable process that lets us be honest about our capacity while helping the cats who need us most.

Remember, our services are FREE and we are 100% volunteer-run. Thank you for understanding and helping us make this work!

If you’ve made it this far, share a photo of your kitty to help with engagement!

Help Request Form: https://bit.ly/otnr-help-request

09/27/2026

Imagine for a second that you’re a young teenager, a middle schooler even.

You’re suddenly kicked out of your home and forced to live on the streets, completely on your own with no resources and no one to help. You’re vulnerable, too young and small to protect yourself, and something bad happens to you. The next thing you know, you’re pregnant.

That was essentially Coratella’s story.

Of course not talking about a human here, but since the anti spay abort crowd loves to anthropomorphize cats in their arguments, we may as well lean into it.

Yesterday, Coratella was spayed, terminating a pregnancy that would have resulted in SEVEN kittens.

She was estimated to be under a year old, meaning she is anywhere from 6-11 MONTHS old. That’s roughly equivalent to a 10-14 year old human child. Let that sink in.

Cora clearly lived inside at some point, but is incredibly skinny and was clearly struggling to survive on the streets. Without intervention, this little girl could have been giving birth on the streets while still a kitten herself. Who knows if she or those kittens would have survived (statistically speaking, we already know the most likely outcome…).

Luckily, Cora’s story gets to end differently.

A good Samaritan found her and reached out for help. We saw another rescuer’s post, had an open kennel, and knew we had to step in.

Huge thank you to our friends at Homeless Cat Management Team for squeezing Cora in, Margo from HCMT for generously covering her vet bill, and Courtney, a volunteer with Fur All Kittys, for picking her up in Allentown and driving her all the way to Natrona Heights for her spay, then back to foster in Swissvale.

Cora is safe, no longer pregnant and will never have to give birth on the streets. Now she gets to grow up and be a normal kitten!❤️

Rescue is truly a team effort. Without collaboration between rescuers, fosters, volunteers, finders, and donors, cats like Coratella wouldn’t get their second chance!

If you’d like to help us keep saying YES to cats like Cora, donations toward her care and the 130+ other cats currently in our care are always appreciated. Even $1 helps, and sharing this post helps too!

Donate:
Givebutter —> bit.ly/otnrc_donate
PayPal —> paypal.me/oaklandtnrcoalition
Venmo —> venmo.com/u/OaklandTNR

09/24/2026

🚨Food donations still desparately needed!!🚨

We got a few bags of dry food and one case of kitten wet food since our last post, and we are SO incredibly thankful to everyone who sent a little something and shared! However with 130 little mouths to feed, sadly that little bit isn’t going to get us very far.

We are still completely out of adult wet food. We did go from zero to one whole case of kitten food, soooo progress technically???😝

But okay for real guys we really need to get our food stock back up before these cats decide they’ve had enough. At this rate, we may have to start sacrificing ourselves to feed them.

And then once they get a taste of human blood, who knows what happens next?! What if they love it and then we have 130 tiny apex predators demanding human flesh and human flesh only, and then who the hell is going to adopt our cats when they only want to eat human meat?!?!

Think of our skin (that we want to keep), think of the adoptability and PLEASE SEND FOOD! 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

A case of adult wet food, kitten food, or bags of dry food from our wishlist would make a HUGE difference right now. And if a $20 case of food isn’t in the budget, monetary donations toward our vet bills are always helpful too even $1 or $5 goes a long way in the end.

If you can’t donate right now, please don’t feel bad! Liking, commenting, and sharing this post helps get it in front of more people, and that can be just as important.

Help us feed the kitties and prevent mutiny!

Foster Wishlists:
Amazon —> amzn.to/4c7DMG1
Chewy —> bit.ly/otnrc_chewylist

Donate:
Givebutter —> bit.ly/otnrc_donate
PayPal —> paypal.me/oaklandtnrcoalition
Venmo —> venmo.com/u/OaklandTNR

09/20/2026

STOP scrolling and look at this kitten in a MINI WICKER CHAIR!!😭

Okay, now that I have your attention… I have a bit of an ask.

I know we are always asking for something. 🫩

Between our ongoing medical kitties, fundraising, and trying desperately to catch up on vet bills, I’ve kind of forgotten the ever important task of keeping our food stocked up.

And now we are running low, more than low actually. Our adult wet food shelf is completely empty and kitten wet food shelf is close behind. Our giant bin stocked of dry food is looking bare. We’re completely out of adult dry food, with only a few bags of kitten dry food left.

With nearly 140 cats and kittens in our care, that is a big yikes. So, we have just another ask. Could yinz maybe send a bag or a case of food from our wishlist? 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 Pwetty please?

Every bag, every case, every little bit helps keep all these hungry mouths fed while we work on getting caught up on our vet bills!

Foster Wishlists:
Amazon —> amzn.to/4c7DMG1
Chewy —> bit.ly/otnrc_chewylist

And if a $20 case or bag of food isn’t in the budget right now, that’s okay too! Monetary donations to help us chip away at our vet bills are always helpful. Whether it’s $1 or $5, it adds up!

And if you can’t donate at all, please don’t ever feel bad! Liking, commenting, and sharing our posts helps more than you might realize.

Donate:
Givebutter —> bit.ly/otnrc_donate
PayPal —> paypal.me/oaklandtnrcoalition
Venmo —> venmo.com/u/OaklandTNR

09/19/2026

Sometimes it really is okay to release a cat; it is the R part of TNR after all.

To be clear, we do not return friendly cats or kittens to the street. Those who can thrive in homes deserve the opportunity to have one. The cats we’re talking about here are truly feral, unsocialized cats who were born and raised outside and are happiest with their established colonies.

In years past, we tried to rehabilitate or socialize nearly every cat we thought had even a possibility of being friendly. Sometimes it worked, but more often, we ended up with semi-feral or “social with one person” cats who were extremely hard to adopt out, or are still with us.

As our impact has grown, we’ve had to reframe things. Our goal has always been fewer cats on the street, but the reality is, we will never adopt our way out of this. There simply aren’t enough homes for all the friendly cats, let alone the feral ones.

Since the beginning of 2026, we’ve had 215 intakes, compared to 106 this time last year. Of those, 70 have been returned to their colonies, compared to just 15 this time last year.

When we evaluate a cat, we have to ask: will this cat actually be happier indoors? Or could they spend months or even years terrified in a foster home, while taking resources away from cats who genuinely need to be inside?

Not every cat needs to be terrified for months until they maybe, finally “break” and decide they want to live indoors. Sometimes, the kindest thing we can do is recognize that where they are is where they want to be.

Drew, on the right, was one we questioned and kept after spay. She wasn’t socializing despite time with two fosters, so we returned her. This was her the next morning, safe back in her colony with food, shelter, and a caretaker who can monitor her to let us know if she ever becomes friendly or needs medical care.

Rescue and TNR is harm reduction - rescuing and adopting out friendly cats and kittens, while spaying/neutering and returning feral cats who are happiest outside. Because the goal isn’t to bring every cat inside, it’s to make sure fewer cats are born into a life of suffering, and help each cat live the safest, healthiest life that actually suits them.

09/18/2026

Listen it’s technically still summer!! There are still 4 days until the autumnal equinox and we’re not ready to let go of our Adult Cat Summer Adoption Special just yet!

Any adoption application submitted by September 22 that is approved will still receive our summer special adoption fees:

Adult cats: $90�Adult pairs: $150
FIV+, FeLV+ & senior (7+) cats: $75

These are just a few of the 38 wonderful adult cats currently waiting for their forever homes! From goofy lovebugs to independent old souls, there’s a whole lot of personality waiting to be discovered.

Want to know more? Visit our website to meet all of our available cats, see more photos, read their full bios, and learn how to apply!

You still have time to adopt a summer cat, so get those apps in!

Adoption Application —> bit.ly/otnrcadoption

09/17/2026

Malort Update ❤️‍🩹

Malort made it to Ohio State Veterinary Medicine Tuesday for her emergency cardiology appointment, and we finally have answers.

Because they thought she was in right sided heart failure already, we were preparing ourselves to possibly come home without her. So while the overall news isn’t great, we’re glad OSU confirmed she is not currently in heart failure.

Her echocardiogram confirmed a significant congenital heart defect affecting the right side of her heart. She has a double-chambered right ventricle, severe thickening and enlargement of the right heart, an obstruction affecting blood flow, a VSD with blood shunting from right to left, and severe tricuspid valve regurgitation.

Unfortunately, there is no surgical option to correct these abnormalities that will shorten her lifespan and eventually lead to right-sided congestive heart failure.

Right now Malort is doing fine and has a good quality of life. She’ll start meds to reduce the workload on her heart and hopefully slow progression of heart failure.

Her ultrasound also confirmed that Malort was born without a left kidney. Her right kidney is enlarged from doing all the work, but thankfully her kidney function is currently normal. They also noted anisocoria, aka different sized pupils, but figuring out why isn’t on the priority list right now.

She’ll return to OSU Cardiology in 2-3 months for another echocardiogram.

Yesterday’s emergency evaluation and diagnostics totaled $1,691.69.

A HUGE thank you to Malort’s foster, who dropped everything and drove her to Ohio. Because she made that drive, Malort got answers to start treatment and give this sweet girl a second chance.

For us, it has always been about quality over quantity. A sh*tty genetic hand doesn’t mean she can’t have a normal, fulfilled life, even if it’s a shorter one.

Your donations make this possible. They allow us to provide exceptional veterinary care without hesitation, giving kittens like Malort second chances instead of euthanasia because we couldn’t afford to get answers or save them.

We went to Ohio expecting to say goodbye. Instead, we came home with answers, a treatment plan, and more time. ❤️

Donate:
Givebutter —> bit.ly/otnrc_donate
PayPal —> paypal.me/oaklandtnrcoalition
Venmo —> venmo.com/u/OaklandTNR

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