Orphan Animal Rescue and Sanctuary

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Orphan Animal Rescue and Sanctuary

Orphan Animal Rescue & Sanctuary rescues, rehabilitates and finds homes for cats and kittens. Stop in and visit our multi-room Adoption Center!
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OARS is different than many other animal welfare organizations: our adoptable cats call our cage-free Adoption Center.

**Meet our adoptable cats and kittens on Petfinder and the following link. http://awos.petfinder.com/shelters/WI341.html

These cats have the full run of a room, complete with sunshine to doze in, cozy kitty beds, and scratching posts. Our volunteers give them plenty of love, pr

oviding twice-daily care 365 days a year. While the Adoption Center is almost as good as a home of their own, we are committed to finding a forever person (or family) for each animal in our care. Providing quality care for these pets in a homelike environment is important to us. Interested in adopting? Visit our website for an application. We follow an adopter screening and application process, and seek to make a lifetime match for both person and adoptable pet. As many community shelters are near capacity, we partner with animal groups such as shelters and humane societies, rather than accepting owned pets or strays into our adoption program. Partnering offers a great opportunity to help even more pets find their forever family!

09/13/2025

✨September Volunteer Spotlight ✨
Meet Carrie, Eve, Tony, and Andy who have been weekly volunteers for more than 2 years. When they're not at OARS, they love pickleball, board games, scenic walks, and epic Mario Kart battles. They also love spending time with their cats Shadow and Moon (an OARS alum). About their volunteer experience, Mom Carrie said; "We're grateful to be a part of OARS and we're so happy to have a place available like this in our community." OARS is so grateful for them as well. Thanks for helping us continue to save the lives of cats in need.

09/04/2025

Are you ready for triple the cuteness, triple the love, and triple the purrs? Meet OARS triplets Phil, Whitney, and Ingrid! This bonded trio loves people and loves each other. Ringleader Phil is a tuxedo cat with gorgeous white whiskers. He does not believe in personal space and is always the first to investigate any situation. Sweet Whitney, a white and tabby girl, is not far behind in greeting newcomers and asking for pets. Once you’re approved by Phil and Whitney, the beautiful black cat Ingrid will make her way over to show you some love as well. While we rarely have bonded trios, these 10-month old siblings really do need each other, so we will only adopt them out together. Can you find it in your heart to give this amazing trio a home? If your home isn’t a fit, can you please share this post so we can try to reach the perfect family for them? Thank you, thank you, and thank you ❤

08/23/2025

Please help OARS save more sweet kittens like these! We are preparing for our annual fall online auction, our biggest fundraiser of the year, and we are looking for donations to auction off. We are a 100% volunteer-run, no-kill, and cage-free rescue with no paid employees and no state funding, so every dollar we make in our auction goes directly to the care of our cats. There are lots of ways for you to help us with our auction:

#1 Donate a themed basket
#2 Donate any new/unused items you have or are willing to purchase and we'll incorporate them into a basket
#3 Donate gift cards to local businesses (Neenah, Oshkosh, Appleton, Wisconsin)
#4 Donate gift cards to national chains (a great idea for our out-of-area followers)
#5 Ask your employer or area businesses to donate a basket or gift certificate
#6 Donate a service - mini photo session, makeup tutorial, pet portrait, singing lessons, whatever your talents are!
#7 Donate handmade crafts
#8 Shop the auction. Stay tuned for dates, info and auction link!
#9 Share this post!

Donations can be dropped off in the donation bin at OARS that is camera-monitored and checked daily or you can send a Facebook message or email us at [email protected] if you want to coordinate in-person drop off.

Thank you in advance for your support and for sharing this post! The cats and kittens at OARS are very appreciative, including Zinzie, Felix, Bibble, and Chuzzlewit who are available for adoption now!

08/11/2025

✨Volunteer Spotlight ✨
Meet Adessa of Adessa’s animals! In addition to being one of our weekly volunteers, 12-year-old Adessa started Adessa’s animals 6 summers ago. Every summer this amazing kid picks up odd jobs in the community – cleaning, animal sitting, weeding, vacuuming out cars and much more, and donates 100% of her proceeds to an animal organization. We’re thrilled to say that this year OARS is the recipient! To date, Adessa has donated over $3,000 to help animals. Adessa is so incredible that she’s even featured in a published book about kids and young adults making a difference. We’re so lucky to have Adessa as part of the OARS family – thank you for making a huge difference in the lives of animals!

08/08/2025

Thank you Pixel & Sophie and
Kong for the amazing toys.

08/06/2025

Ready for a love story worthy of a song? Meet the legendary duo, Elvis and Priscilla. These 5-year-old beauties are a bonded pair of outgoing kitties looking for their forever together. Both love attention and affection, and Priscilla has never met a lap she didn’t love. These two only have eyes for each other and will do best in a home without other cats and dogs. Can your home be their Graceland? Check out their videos in the comments, and then fill out an application! If you’re not their perfect fit, please share this post so we can get The King and his Queen into their happily ever after.

07/28/2025

⭐️Volunteer Spotlight⭐️
Meet Angela and Izak! Izak’s love of animals (especially cats!) is what prompted his mom, Angela, to look into volunteering with him at OARS, and they have been volunteering with us now for 4 years. They adopted two amazing cats from OARS – Phoebe and Piper. When they’re not volunteering, Angela and Izak enjoy robotics, camping, and outdoor activities. Thank you for being part of our team Angela and Izak!

07/26/2025

Adoptable OARS cat Legend has some sad news to share. Unfortunately due to construction on the street in front of OARS, we will be canceling our craft fair for 2025. The sidewalk in front of OARS and the driveway have been removed making it unsafe to host an event in our parking lot at this time. (Legend wants to make sure you're aware that we ARE still open for scheduled visits from adopters, though!) Missing one of our major fundraisers will mean that we'll need to have an extra-amazing fall online auction, so please consider making a donation of any new items that we can use for baskets. We will also continue to accept craft donations and they will either be used in the auction or next year's craft fair. Thank you so much for all of your support through our fundraisers.

07/10/2025

Calling all crafters and artists!!! Honey and Hattie, OARS’ longest term pair have a very important request for you. In order to keep saving special cats like these sweet girls, we need to have some updates to our parking lot and building ramp completed. Our next major fundraiser will be our annual craft sale August 16th and 17th. Can you please help? We greatly appreciate any hand made items for our sale – cat related or not, so let’s see what our talented supporters bring us this year! We have a camera-monitored donation bin outside our building that is checked daily, or you can schedule an appointment to drop off items by e-mailing [email protected]. Thank you!

Last call for pizza orders! Please email your order to info@orphananimalrescue.org by the end of the day today if you’d ...

06/19/2025

Last call for pizza orders! Please email your order to [email protected] by the end of the day today if you’d like to purchase. Order form is in the comments. The cats and kittens at OARS appreciate your support!! 🍕

06/14/2025

Eat pizza, save cats. It’s really that simple! Pizza models (and bonded pairs) Honey and Hattie and Tux and Tessie are the OARS cats who have been waiting for their forever homes the longest (which is crazy, because they are literally the sweetest cats ever). All you have to do to allow OARS to keep saving cats like these is to participate in our Trading Post Pizza fundraiser. These are some of the best pizzas around so you’ll be treating yourself while you’re saving lives. It’s a win-win!

Please check out the order form in the comments, and then send your orders to [email protected] by Friday June 20th. Pickup times are 12pm-2pm on Saturday June 28th and 12pm-2pm on Sunday June 29th - please note which day you will pick up in your order email. Payment is due at pickup via cash or check. As always, we thank you for your support and greatly appreciate you sharing this post.

06/08/2025

Happy Sunday! We’re working with The Trading Post in Wautoma to bring you delicious, fresh, frozen pizzas to help support OARS as we continue to raise funds to cover our parking lot and ramp replacement project this summer! We got great reviews from community members who purchased pizzas during our 2 fundraisers during 2024. New this time to purchase are Roasted Garlic Cheese Sticks!

Please send your orders to [email protected] by Friday June 20th. Pickup times are 12pm-2pm on Saturday June 28th and 12pm-2pm on Sunday June 29th - please note which day you will pick up in your order email. Payment is due at pickup via cash or check. Thanks in advance for your support!

Address

810 S Commercial Street
Neenah, WI
54956

Website

https://orphananimalrescue.org/

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