Organizations Filed Purposes:
Operation Catnip provides programs and services for community cats and their caregivers through sterilization, collaboration, and education.
Clinical Services Operation Catnip builds humane communities through the programs that utilize clinical services, and these programs continue to reap huge benefits. The Kitten Shelter Diversion Program was responsible for another decline in kitten admissions at the open admission municipal shelter and at our private shelters and rescues. Private shelters and rescues found themselves in a position of being able to assist the rest of the region because they were not over-burdened with kittens. Our Critical Care Program ensures that community cats with severe illness or injury receive the medical care needed to allow them to return to their outside homes, free of pain and suffering. The Intake Diversion Program provides expert trapping for cats that would not otherwise make it to a clinic for spay-neuter-vaccination or treatment and would otherwise continue to reproduce.
Caregiver Community Support Our services continue to empower individuals to control the community cat population through affordable and accessible spay-neuter, vaccination, and medical services. In 2020 1,064 unique caregivers received help and nearly 5,000 cats were provided medical care, including spay-neuter, vaccinations, treatments for various illnesses and injuries, including 25 live-saving amputations and 48 enucleations, not to mention dentals and other surgeries and procedures. The caregivers benefit because by mitigating the suffering of cats in their care, we ease their burden. The community benefits through reduced free-roaming cats populations accomplished via humane community cat management techniques.
Vet Student Training Opportunities We are uniquely positioned to provide veterinary students, primarily from the University of Florida, with service-learning opportunities enabling students who avail themselves of these opportunities, to graduate as confident and competent clinicians and surgeons. A vet student can graduate with a degree in veterinary medicine and obtain a license after performing little to no real surgery, certainly not being confident or competent. Operation Catnips emphasis on providing enhanced training opportunities teaches the students the simple, humane solutions to managing community cats and empowers them with the skill set to be effective. These students take this expertise with them wherever their careers lead them. For several it has led them to careers in shelter medicine.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Audrey Garrison | Executive Director | 40 | $45,378 |
| Zoe Haraden | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Mandy Reed | President | 1 | $0 |
| Cassidy Schiefer | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Drbrian Digangi | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Elizabeth Fitzpatrick | Member | 1 | $0 |
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