​“SAFE RIDES FOR SECOND CHANCES”.

On-Call Community Rescue for Animals

Volunteer based transport of sick and injured wildlife across six counties in the PNW.

Our Mission

OCCRA is a volunteer network that rescues and transports sick and injured wildlife in the North Willamette Watershed District to licensed care facilities on behalf of those members of the public who face transportation and safety limitations. We are committed to fostering a compassionate community that values wildlife through conservation, education and outreach. Our goal is to create opportunities for people to help wildlife thrive and expand our efforts statewide.

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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 503-292-0304 between 9AM - 5PM (open 365 days/year), 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, and it is between 5pm and 9am, 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.

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

FOX12 Live Interview about the QUACKSAFE CAMPAIGN

By Virginia Borden | August 3, 2024

  Thank you FOX 12 Oregon Greg Nibler for talking to us about the QUACKSAFE Campaign on July 31st. Do you know of a drain that has had previous trapped duckling events? Please report on our website under (RESOURCES, QUACKSAFE).. to help us with the very important first part of this campaign, data collection! LINK…

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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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Team callout with @ohs_tar_ this week. Sweet indoor cat was kicked out of an evicted...
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Wildlife C/T - #262 Thank you @frankebat for responding to help this injured corvid. A...

PLEASE FOLLOW CALI DEPT of FISH & WILDLIFE link on bio/story or copy/paste below. SOME REHABBERS HAVE EVAC’D and are not accepting patients. Stay safe, leave water outside for displaced wildlife, keep domestic animals inside. https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Laboratories/Wildlife-Health/Rehab/Facilities #californiawildlife #californiawildliferehab #californiafirewildlife #eatonfirewildlife #palisadeswildlife
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PLEASE FOLLOW CALI DEPT of FISH & WILDLIFE link on bio/story or copy/paste below. SOME...
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❤️‍🩹- #260 - RTHA - SE PDX ⛑️ - Partner callout with @ohs_tar_ . OCCRA...
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We were lucky on this call tonight, I’ve never seen anything like this capture, you’re...
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OCCRA WILDLIFE #257 (1st call of 2025) Thank you vOCCRAnteers @lexiangela @jferry326 for responding! @dovelewispdx...
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Your #vOCCRAnteers capture and transported 188 wild animals in 2024. Like, share, follow, donate, or...

✨ VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT ✨ Introducing #vOCCRAnteer Lexi! Lexi (she/her) brings incredible hands on experience to OCCRA as she also has volunteered with our community partners at the @birdallianceoforegon . Here is a bit more about Lexi ! “I grew up volunteering at animal shelters every summer and it’s always been a passion of mine. I followed that passion which earned me a degree in zoology from Oregon state university. Once I started volunteering with wildlife I knew I found my calling. My favorite wild species is probably a Vaux’s swift or the red tailed hawk. I love that OCCRA is for the animals and the community by helping both do right and get animals the care they need”! Thank you for all you do @lexiangela 🙏❤️
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✨ VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT ✨ Introducing #vOCCRAnteer Lexi! Lexi (she/her) brings incredible hands on experience to...

🙏 🐕 Appreciation post, I have permission from these kind folks to share their photo. A few nights ago, Edgar and Juan were leaving their boxing gym and witnessed a German shepherd struck by a vehicle. The driver continued but these two good humans stopped and gently helped the shepherd move out of the busy road. They called animal services and OCCRA was dispatched out under our county contract to transport the dog to @dovelewispdx who intakes injured stray animals for the county. In this line of work we see a broad spectrum of humans. What we try to focus on are all the kind people out there whom go out of their way to help an animal. Edgar and Juan waited for us to arrive and helped load the injured pup in to our van. It’s rare we ask for bystander help, but we work solo at night. So if an animal has already established trust with a good Sam, and we can have them help from a safe position on the animal, we may accept that offer. Big injured dogs are tough to move solo, thank you both for your wonderful hearts. We don’t receive any updates on the animals we transport for the county, but we hope this pups owner was located and that they know some good folks helped him to safety 🙏❤️
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🙏 🐕 Appreciation post, I have permission from these kind folks to share their photo....