Operation Cat
Feral Cat TNR Clinics at the ARF Adoption Center
Thanks to the community support of Operation Cat, ARF is able to spay/neuter and vaccinate feral cats at no charge to the volunteers who trap and bring them to ARF on our feral cat days.
We are limited in the number of feral cats we can spay/neuter on any given day. You must call 631-537-0400 option #2 to make an appointment or get more information.
- Tuesday, January 7
- Thursday, January 9
- Monday, January 13
- Monday, January 20
- Thursday, January 23
- Friday, January 24
- Monday, January 27
- Wednesday, January 29
ARF has humane traps available to borrow for a $75 refundable deposit. Each cat brought to ARF for spay/neuter must be in a separate humane trap. For the safety of the cats and our staff, they cannot be in a cat carrier. Staff will teach you how to use the trap and provide instructions. Cats that are spayed/neutered must be returned to the location where they were originally trapped.
Kittens and cats deemed friendly, social, and adoptable will be admitted to the ARF Adoption Center.
If you are interested in fostering kittens, please complete our Kitten Foster Application.
If you have questions or want to volunteer for Operation Cat, contact Jessica Quaresimo at opcat@arfhamptons.org.
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Through a vast network of volunteers Operation Cat (Op Cat) humanely reduces the growing number and needless suffering of homeless, feral and stray cats by using an effective trap/neuter/return strategy (TNR). Volunteer caretakers provide food, water and shelter for over 1,000 cat colonies, ranging in size from two to thirty cats. They trap the cats, bring them to the Adoption Center where they are altered and vaccinated, and then release them back to their colony. One of the cat’s ears is notched to identify it as an altered cat so it is not mistakenly trapped again. Since the program’s inception in 1997, over 35,000 feral cats from Speonk to Montauk and most recently Brookhaven township have been altered.
ARF’s Op Cat program offers free spay/neuter surgeries for free-roaming cats trapped in the Towns of East Hampton, Southampton, Shelter Island and Brookhaven.