Operation Git-Meow

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Operation Git-Meow

Operation Git-Meow provides veterinary care to manage free roaming cat populations in Guantanamo Bay. area.

Operation Git-Meow’s focus is on military members and their pets. Operation Git-Meow is a Virginia non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to helping the cat populations of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the greater Washington, D.C. We encourage education on responsible pet ownership, and assist in providing micro-chips and other veterinary medications and care to community cats. Kittens and cats who can be soci

alized and adopted will be available for adoption both at Guantanamo Bay, and in the United States through our website. Operation Git-Meow works closely with partner organizations to assist with our mission of better education and care for community cats.

01/08/2025

Operation Git-Meow assisted nearly 450 animals in 2024! Through our veterinary care clinics, education, transport, rescue flights, and adoptions in GTMO, St. Kitts, and the DC area.

We wanted to thank everyone who has volunteered, donated, adopted, and helped us in so many ways this past year. We couldn’t do this without all of the support we’ve received.

12/03/2024

We’ve been busy this year, between our GTMO clinics, rescue flights, adoption program, and owner assistance work in St. Kitts we’ve helped almost 500 animals this year!

We recently had 2 foster kittens require sudden hospital and surgical bills totaling $7,000. Both are young, happy, and doing much better after this crucial care. We’re asking for donations to help offset these recent expenses.

Last month Scooter came down with a mystery virus and ongoing high fever, he’s recovered after his week long hospital stay with nonstop medications and fluids. Pebbles has a badly broken leg and is going into surgery today to repair the bone. Her leg will be fully back to normal in a few weeks after this expert surgery.

We’re committed to providing the care animals in our program need in addition to the high volume clinic work we do. This year we had 375 patients at our GTMO clinic, 50 on the rescue flight, and 60 more taken in for adoption or we assisted their owners with transport and vet care through our St. Kitts program. We appreciate and cannot thank you all enough for the constant support and donations that sustain our nonprofit.

11/01/2024

Dot and Dash are a dynamic duo. Their favorite place to sleep is on your legs or cuddled up togedher. Preferably both! Dot is the friendliest girl, she really wants attention and uses her head to nudge your phone away for more petting. Dash is always entertaining, he’s very playful and has the loudest purr.

They get along great with other cats, dogs, and children. The bonded pair are about 6 months old, spayed and neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and negative for FeLV and FIV.

10/21/2024

We have a lot of excess merch especially in sizes L, XL and above! We won’t be getting more of these so limited edition! We’re trying to get as much as we can sold so we can do at cost pricing as we prepare for our big building move this week! We’re hoping to have another rescue flight and another free veterinary care clinic in early 2025.

Please share this post, we can ship items and they’re available on base also.

We’ve had almost 900 patients at our 4 clinics and have flown off 150 cats through our 4 rescue flights. Cats both for adoption and pets reunited with their families as it’s complex to get animals off base on military flights.

Thank you all so much for the donations it’s truly helped cover the costs of the move. We run solely off of volunteer donations and grants provided by SPCA International. It’s a lot of fundraising for a small group with big dreams!

10/14/2024

We need help raising funds to offset costs of moving! We’re switching clinic buildings on base at GTMO next week which will cost about $2,500 between hotel, flights to DC and GTMO, rental truck, gas, meals, and other assorted expenses. We’re hoping to raise some funds through another merchandise sale on base, online orders, and donations.

If anyone is interested in donating or purchasing some t-shirts, hats, hoodies, pins, patches, or challenge coins on or off base send us a message! We’ll be at the NEX on Sunday the 20th. Any little bit helps!

09/17/2024

Trying to gauge interest in Operation Git-Meow’s next order of shirts for a NEX sale on October 13th as we really need to fundraise for a spring clinic. These are dry fit t-shirts.

We’ve got a lot of the tan t-shirts and long sleeve UV shirts in L, XL, and XXL. If you’d be interested, could you send a message so we have an idea of how many shirts to order? We were planning to order mostly Small and Medium since we’re mostly out of those sizes in other styles. If you can’t make the sale we can still get you any items you’d like!

09/02/2024

For anyone on base with kittens, please note anyone who was too small to be fixed at our last clinic is now ready to start reproducing. A colony can double in size in just 6 months, and continue exponentially. Breeding season in a hot climate is continuous, there’s no slow down during the winter months.

If you have kittens or cats you were hoping to bring in, you can try to reach out to base vet clinic to schedule surgeries at full cost. It’s $200 for a spay, additional costs for vaccines, microchips, and parasite prevention. They will mate with their parents, siblings, and relatives, inbreeding can cause additional health complications.

We won’t be able to hold another clinic any sooner than April 2025. Even if a new building is found before then, we’re only allowed to fly Space Available, and there’s not enough space for our team during other months.

08/30/2024

We have some very unfortunate news, we have to cancel our October clinic.

Issues have arisen with use of our clinic building and housing. We’ve spoken to the base to try and resolve these issues, but we couldn’t do so in time for this clinic. They want to work with us however we understand it’s a Naval base and many other priorities come before Git-Meow.

We’ll need assistance from residents in October to move all of our equipment to a new location. We’ve been able to treat almost 900 animals in 2 years and we’ve flown off 100 animals with Wings of Rescue. This project has only been possible due to the hard work and dedication of the GTMO community and we sincerely thank everyone who’s supported us along the way.

07/30/2024

Our NEX sale is this Sunday August 4th from 12pm-3pm!

We have new UV long sleeve shirts, hoodies, t-shirts, challenge coins, baseball caps, insulated cups, car magnets, patches, koozies, and pins!

We operate on donations, grants, and merchandise sales to fully fund these clinics at no cost to the government.

07/20/2024

Operation Git-Meow is hoping to do another NEX sale on base soon, we have new UV shirts!

We wanted to make sure everyone knows, ZERO government money is used for our program. We are 100% funded by donations, the merchandise sales, and grants. We’ve spayed/neutered over 650 cats and another 200 have come through for vaccines, microchips and other service. A few dogs too!

We truly appreciate all of the support we’ve had from the community on base and off base!

07/03/2024

All merch is now back in stock! We’ll be sending most of it to Gtmo for any folks on base who’d like to buy some. If anyone off base would like to order just let us know your sizing and we can mail out through USPS! We’re low tech but we appreciate all the support. These sales have truly sustained the clinics and have been our main source of funding!

06/22/2024

We’re awaiting our restock shipment of t shirts and hoodies and hats, but we also just got in these new design UV long sleeve shirts! Look good and feel good protected from the sun while helping support our free vet clinic program.

06/03/2024

We have merch! Hoodies, t-shirts, baseball caps, challenge coins, pins, patches, car magnets, and can koozies! We can ship items to anyone off base. Shirts and hoodies also have the flag on the right sleeve. We have some logo t-shirts in olive green also.

We’re very grateful for the support on base at the NEX sale yesterday! If you’re on base and missed the sale you can still get items just send us a message.

05/21/2024

Galleon and Doubloon are looking for their forever home! They’re extremely affectionate lap cats, purring is nonstop, and they get along great with other cats and dogs. They sleep on the bed, they come running when you come home, they meow adorably to request more kibbles and canned food. Rescued in St. Kitts from the Shipwreck bar as babies they were rolling in the road not worried about the cars going by.

We scooped them up and raised them, they’re now 6 months old, have had all their vet care, and are ready to find their forever family!

04/16/2024

We had 130 cats yesterday and 55 more so far today. Last clinic we had 175 total in 3 days so we are on track to beat our 200 cat goal in the first half of the week. We are so thrilled to be here yet again and see the same faces over and over. The community support is incredible!

04/15/2024

Our 4th free veterinary care clinic is off to an amazing start with 93 animals in before noon!!!

03/29/2024

We’re hard at work preparing for our next free veterinary clinic the week of April 15th-18th and our big 50 cat flight April 23rd! We’re so grateful for all of the community support both on and off island and the amazing work of our veterinary team.

Each clinic we’ve had more patients than the previous clinic as we build momentum and trust in the community and we’re so happy to be going back soon!

03/06/2024

These 2 former Gtmo cats could use a foster from spring 2024 to December 2025 while their mom completes a masters program overseas. They’re an incredibly sweet bonded pair who have been living their best lives in Washington DC the last few years.

Address

P. O. Box 523373
Springfield, VA
22152

Telephone

+16092809853

Website

http://www.operationgitmeow.com/

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We’re hard at work preparing for our next free veterinary clinic the week of April 15th-18th and our big 50 cat flight April 23rd! We’re so grateful for all of the community support both on and off island and the amazing work of our veterinary team. Each clinic we’ve had more patients than the previous clinic as we build momentum and trust in the community and we’re so happy to be going back soon!

Our new challenge coins featuring some of the other GTMO animals have arrived! We’re raising money for our next clinic in April where we’re looking forward to helping a few hundred more animals, and the humans who love them! They’re $25 each, pickup on base or we can ship.

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Operation Git-Meow’s focus is on military members and their pets. Operation Git-Meow is a Virginia non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to trying get permission to work with the Navy to help manage the cat population at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At the present time, we operate in the greater Washington, D.C. area and provide trap/neuter/vaccinate/return services to the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) as well as monthly cat visits to the residents at AFRH since most of our group consists of current or former military members. We encourage education on responsible pet ownership, and assist in providing micro-chips and other veterinary medications and care to community cats. Kittens and cats who can be socialized and adopted will be available for adoption through our website and Petfinder. Operation Git-Meow works closely with partner organizations to assist with our mission of better education and care for community cats.