​“SAFE RIDES FOR SECOND CHANCES”.

On-Call Community Rescue for Animals

Assisting first responders and citizens with the aid and transport of animals in emergencies.

Our Mission

OCCRA’s mission is to improve city services, save time and money for local residents and our emergency responders—and help our less fortunate animal residents, via safe handling and transport of our creature friends by well trained and equipped responders.

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How We Help 100’s of Animals Every Year

Injured Strays

OCCRA is contracted with Multnomah County Animal Services from April 2022-April 2027, to respond to sick or injured contained stray animals between 5pm and 8am, 365 days/year. Please call 503.988.7387 if you have an emergency involving a stray domestic animal. You may also try the OCCRA number directly at 971.645.3450.

Injured Wildlife

Handling and transporting wild animals is very dangerous. Please call Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) first when encountering any kind of wildlife concern or emergency. You may also try Bird of Alliance of Oregon Wildlife Care Center to help triage the situation. OCCRA assists in case by case scenarios and may be able to offer transports of injured or sick wildlife to emergency care or humane euthanasia, if you are unable to reach both agencies, please reach out to us directly at 971.645.3450 to see if it is a situation we can help with, or if we can help contact the proper agencies.

Rescue Assistance

OCCRA may be able to assist in the transport of rehomed farm animals. Please reach out to us to see how we can help you, whether you are another non profit, or a citizen, we would be happy to discuss your situation. Please note, we do not help find adoptive homes, as it is outside of our capacity. However, once a home is in place and approved by the previous owner, OCCRA volunteers may be able to assist in the transport. email: [email protected] or call 971.645.3450.

How You Can Help

Join Our Contractor Team

OCCRA contractors work 1700-0800 as after hours emergency animal control in Multnomah County, if you are interested in becoming a contractor, with a once/week shift, let us know!

Join Our Team

Volunteer

OCCRA receives daily requests to help capture and transport animals, especially wildlife! Our volunteers help us fulfill our mission, we couldn't do it without them, and we would love to talk to you about joining our team!

Volunteer Application

Donate

OCCRA volunteers are onboarded with safety gear and uniforms, each new volunteer costs several hundred dollars in equipment. Your donations allow us to grow and help more animals, as well as save for our bigger goals of purchasing a large livestock trailer, and high quality wildlife transport boxes.

Donate Now

UP-TO-DATE MAP OF OCCRA VOLUNTEER WILDLIFE RESPONSES IN THE *NORTH WILLAMETTE WATERSHED DISTRICT.

The *NWWD covers six counties. Zoom in to see the scope of volunteer wildlife call-outs to date.

Latest News

Diamond Collar Hero Award

By Virginia Borden | February 23, 2024

On 02/20/24 OCCRA President Virginia Borden had the incredible honor of receiving a Diamond Collar Hero Award from Oregon Humane Society on behalf of all the work that OCCRA volunteers have done over the years, as well the chance to highlight the incredible OHSTAR team whom we work with often. See the full video recognizing…

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SNEAK PEEK at our new logos!

By dave | December 14, 2023

OCCRA is rebranding. It’s time for a bit of a change in our logos, it’s so hard to say goodbye to the “heart paw”, especially since our belo…

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The Great Pumpkin Drive helps rescued farm animals for another year

By dave | November 5, 2023

The On-Call Community Rescue for Animals (OCCRA) is hosting the Great Pumpkin drive for the seventh year! For more Local News from KPTV: https://www.kptv.com/

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🤩🤩🤩VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT🤩🤩🤩 Meet vOCCRAnteer, and @birdallianceoforegon volunteer, Amber 🙏❤️ “I’m Amber and I made my way to OCCRA by starting at Bird Alliance of Oregon, in 2023, as a Wildlife Solutions Counselor. It was heartbreaking to take calls from folks who desperately wanted to help injured wildlife but had no way to bring them to our Wildlife Care Center. So I decided to join OCCRA to help close that gap. It is so rewarding to be able to deliver an injured animal somewhere it will get help”. Thank you Amber for all you do in the community for the animals! We appreciate your heart and your commitment to both teams!
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🤩🤩🤩VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT🤩🤩🤩 Meet vOCCRAnteer, and @birdallianceoforegon volunteer, Amber 🙏❤️ “I’m Amber and I made my...
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SKUNK 05/04/24 - WEST LINN #120 A kind Good Samaritan saw this little skunk struggling...

On Wednesday, OCCRA volunteers were busy with multiple callouts. One of which, was a bit of a mystery until volunteer arrival. A vet clinic in deep Clackamas County had someone ask to borrow their phone and “tell OCCRA I have a golden eagle in my house”…. Or something to that tune! The caller wasn’t sure what kind of raptor they had captured, just that it had an injured wing and it was “big”. Golden eagles are very rare to see on our side of the state, but it’s not “unheard of”. Regardless, because the patient was inside a home and is a dangerous wild animal to have loose in a bedroom, 2 of our volunteers kindly made the long drive out to see what they had and get the bird to help! As expected, it was a red-tailed hawk, @kifharris and @kaicameli captured the patient quickly and took them for overnight care @dovelewispdx where the patient would be transferred to @birdallianceoforegon in the morning if a candidate for rehab. Of course we will take this opportunity to remind folks that handling a wild animal is dangerous, regardless of it being sick or injured, please do not approach, touch or transport any wild animals without triaging with someone in wildlife management or rescue first. It is also very scary for wild animals to be handled by humans or surrounded by the sounds of human life inside a home. If you ever have to hold a wild animal overnight, a very quiet, insulated area and dark place is best. Thank you Tiffany and @happygrn as well for their help Wednesday! 🙏 #occra #voccranteers #wildlifetransport #wildliferescue #wildlifevolunteer #redtailedhawk
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On Wednesday, OCCRA volunteers were busy with multiple callouts. One of which, was a bit...
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Great Horned Owl - 04/30/24 - #117 vOCCRAnteers @happygrn Gary, and @virginiakrakowiak responded to Mollala...
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Great Horned Owl Nestling - 03/27/24 OCCRA had the great honor of playing liaison to...
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Red-tailed hawk 04/28/24 #116 Thank you to the Good Samaritan who called for help when...
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OSPREY 04/26/24 On Friday, OCCRA and ODFW received calls from good Samaritans and @birdallianceoforegon, as...

PIGEON - #115 04/28/24 It’s been a busy week in wildlife calls for OCCRA! We will be sharing some stories the next few days. Thank you to vOCCRAnteer Amber for responding to this injured pigeon and taking them to @birdallianceoforegon on Saturday! Amber is also a volunteer at the Wildlife Care Center and we are thankful for all she does! #voccranteer #wildlifetransport #wildlifevolunteer
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PIGEON - #115 04/28/24 It’s been a busy week in wildlife calls for OCCRA! We...
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Great horned owl nestling 04/23/24 #110 Thank you vOCCRAnteers @malidragon Annette and Lindsey for responding...
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☀️HAPPY VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION WEEK!☀️ 🦅🦉🐇APRIL 21st - APRIL 27th - 2024🐇🦉🦅 We cannot say enough...