Who We Are
About Us
Our TNR Strategy
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Create a culture of "ownership" of free-roaming cat colonies by individuals, businesses, volunteer groups, youth groups, municipal bodies, and others.
Through online resources, public presentations, and use of news and social media outlets, we seek to raise awareness of the prevalence of free-roaming cats (also known as "community cats"), the causes and consequences of their presence, and how humane action by affected parties can create sustainable results in reducing their numbers and managing their behavior.
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Encourage implementation of Trap Neuter Return programs based on benchmarked policies and procedures.
By creating and providing fact sheets, instructions, and other resources derived from respected national peer sources and tailored to our region, as well as quarterly TNR Basics Seminars, we promote the use of standard and effective approaches. We also link the community with resources provided by other service organizations, and reward and promote success with an annual award program for outstanding advocates.
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Coordinate and fund high-value, measurable Trap Neuter Return projects
We focus on definable, measurable projects to create results that promote similar projects, combining the efforts of multiple organizations and governmental and private bodies for comprehensive and sustained results. Past focus has included mobile home communities, small municipalities, and college campuses.
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Operate a dedicated Trap Neuter Return surgery clinic to provide a high volume of spay/neuter surgeries and related services for community cats in the 15 counties of south-central Pa.
We use a highly qualified and motivated paid staff in a modern, permanent clinical setting. Services are offered at a low cost of $40 per cat and include altering, rabies and distemper vaccination, parasite treatment, and ear tip.
Our Mission
The Nobody's Cats Foundation promotes the adoption of Trap Neuter Return (TNR) as the preferred strategy for humanely stabilizing and reducing free-roaming domestic feline populations in south-central PA. This approach prevents suffering among the cats, protects public health, reduces stress on wildlife, and enables communities to redirect desperately needed resources elsewhere.
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TNR is virtually universally acknowledged as the primary tool for reducing the overpopulation of domestic felines. Momentum to implement TNR in our community has grown dramatically in the past few years and we want to build on that momentum by providing access to the knowledge and resources necessary to implement TNR.
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Our various strategies include mentoring and training in the strategy and its tactics, a food and coupon bank, distribution of all-weather shelters, loan of equipment including humane traps and deterrents, and a dedicated, high-volume spay/neuter surgery clinic. Through these efforts, we hope to help the regional community humanely and sustainably manage and reduce its population of free-roaming cats.
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Our Spay/Neuter Clinic Dedicated to Community Cats
The Nobody's Cats Foundation opened its spay/neuter surgery clinic in Camp Hill (Lower Allen Township) in October 2013 and has altered tens of thousands of community cats. Our clinic is dedicated solely to the benefit of free-roaming domestic cats, providing spay or neuter surgery, rabies and distemper vaccinations, parasite treatment, ear tip, and related services for $40 per cat, regardless of gender.
Our Board of Directors
Christine Arnold​
Christine founded Nobody's Cats in 2012 and has served as managing director since its inception. Highly active in the Trap Neuter Return (TNR) strategy since 2004, Christine is an active colony caretaker and trapping project coordinator. She served for six years as a weekly cat shelter caregiver for the Helen O. Krause Animal Foundation, and on the boards of and as a volunteer for PAWS, the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance, Rehabitat, and Wind Ridge Farm Equine Sanctuary. She is a former corporate communicator and free-lance writer with professional experience in all aspects of business and marketing communication. She lives in rural northern York County and is an avid birder and gardener.
Jeanine Osman
Jeanine learned of the spay/neuter strategy as a child in the late 60s with the neutering of her family's new kitten and, as an adult, became an advocate for spay/neuter for the barn cats at her equine stable. Learning more about the foundation's TNR offerings through her advocacy, Jeanine began actively volunteering in fundraising and special events, before adding board membership and management of our shelter distribution program to her service. Formerly active with other local non-profit organizations, including the Hearing Loss Association of the Capital Region, Jeanine is a business consultant with undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science. She and her husband have retired near the Caribbean Sea along the Mayan Riviera. She will continue her support by remotely serving on the board.
Tracy Bixler​
Sara Pike
Tracy is a former volunteer for the PAWS TNR Program. As the program's data manager, she collected and maintained details about the more than 15,000 domestic felines processed through the program, as well as associated client and demographic data. She has volunteered for high-volume surgery clinics, served as a mentor for colony caretakers, and is a colony caretaker at her rural Schuylkill County home. A resident of central Pennsylvania, she is a graduate of Upper Dauphin Area High School and has recently retired from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Insurance Department after 35+ years of service. Ms. Bixler and her family provide care for numerous rescued animals including indoor cats, dogs, and two chinchillas. In her spare time, Tracy enjoys crafting, traveling, attending concerts, and serving as treasurer for her church.
Sara participated in her first TNR project in Lewisberry in 2012. A former volunteer for the Helen O. Krause Animal Foundation, Furry Friends Network, and Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance, Sara led a team to start the Shippensburg University (SU) Campus Cats program and the Shippensburg Community Cats Facebook group. An alumnus of Messiah College and Clarion University, Sara hails from Springfield, Massachusetts. She recently relocated to New England but continues her involvement on our board while volunteering with a TNR group in her new community. She shares her home with two rescued cats.
Pamela Lighty
Pamela has volunteered with several non-profits over the last 20 years. Her volunteer experience includes the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and various animal organizations. She began volunteering with Nobody's Cats after visiting the annual open house and being impressed with the organization's dedication to their mission. She felt compelled to help homeless animals after adopting two cats from a local rescue and witnessing the large number of animals sharing a small room. Pamela has over 20 years of banking experience and currently works in Retail Operations at Orrstown Bank. She is committed to supporting small businesses and can always be found at local community events supporting local merchants. She lives in Mechanicsburg with her two rescued fur babies.
Irene Anderson
Irene relocated to south-central Pennsylvania in 2020 from New Jersey, where she held various accounting positions over the years. She was an active member of the New Jersey Animals Rights Alliance. Many Saturdays she could be seen with her sign protesting a bear hunt, circus, a puppy mill store, or a fur salon. She was a founding member and treasurer of an animal welfare group in Mercer County, New Jersey, which focused on spaying and neutering of community cats and providing food to caretakers. Irene was active in trapping projects and fostering, although she was a "foster failure" as often happens. Irene and her sister, Marion, adopted a Suri Alpaca named Gloria, who is boarded at a York Springs farm.
Our Bylaws and Policy
Our Non-Profit Company Information
The official registration and financial information of The Nobody's Cats Foundation may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.​