Tame cats are considered pet cats, or even friendly stray cats who have been abandoned or “strayed” from home but were likely once pet cats. Tame cats can be generally picked up, held and easily handled. “Tame” refers to the temperament of the cat.

No application is needed to bring a tame cat to our clinic, but advance reservations are required.

You may call our front desk at 818.524.2287 x 4 to speak to our receptionist and get booked for a spay/neuter reservation. The best time to call is between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily. If you call and it goes to voicemail, please leave your full name, street address, city, zip code, phone number and your email address. Please spell out anything that might not be clear over the phone. We’ll get you set up in our database and will call you back with the next available appointment date and instructions.

When you are calling to book a tame cat appointment, please be sure to specify that you need a “tame cat appointment”. We book feral cats differently, and we only have so many tame cat appointments slotted per day.

Cats should not have any food after 12 midnight the night before surgery. Water is okay. The only exception to this is with kittens four months or younger. Kittens under four months should have a small amount of food (about a teaspoon) around 5 or 6:00 a.m. the morning of surgery to keep their blood sugar levels from dropping too low.

Please make sure you transport each tame cat in an individual secure, hard plastic carrier –  no cardboard boxes, cardboard carriers or canvas pet bags allowed. Only one cat per carrier. You may want to cover the carrier with a towel or sheet to keep the cat calm, particularly during transport.

Tame cats can be fixed for free under our free feral program provided they are eartipped. Eartipping is the way to identify that an outdoor, free-roaming cat has been sterilized. Under our free feral program, cats receive the spay/neuter surgery, a distemper vaccine, rabies vaccine, flea treatment, de-worming and the eartip — all for free. We can do a small eartip, too, for any tame cats or kittens who you are trying to find homes for, and the services will still be free. Just be sure to ask for a small eartip at check in.

For any tame pet cats who are not being eartipped, our prices are $55 for a female/spay or $40 for a male/neuter. Shots and flea treatments are extra. For a listing of additional services (offered only at the time of surgery) and associated pricing, please see our price sheet in our “Forms & Resources” section in the bottom right section of our web site.  

We accept cash or check at the time of pick-up. Sorry, no credit cards.

Please note that if your tame cat is over five years of age, we will not be able to fix your cat here. Instead we recommend you take your cat to a full-service vet hospital.

On your appointment date:

Check in is from 7:00 a.m – 8:00 a.m. When you arrive at the clinic, please leave the cats in your car and come into the clinic to fill out the check-in admission form. Once you’ve completed the check-in paperwork, you can then bring your cats into the clinic. Since we’re a high-volume clinic, our lobby gets very busy in the morning, and this just helps us to keep things running smoothly for everyone.

While your cat is here at the clinic, please make sure you are at a phone number that is reachable, or check your messages often. If there is any emergency, we will need to get a hold of you. Also, we will call you as soon as your cat is ready to go home.

Cats do go home the same day; we do not hold cats overnight. We will call you when your cat is ready to go. Normally cats are cleared for release between 1pm – 4pm; however, exact times vary depending on how many surgeries we have that day. Pick up needs to be before 5pm daily except for Thursdays. Thursdays we are open until 7pm for late pick up.

If you need to cancel or change your appointment for any reason, please call us as soon as possible.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you and your kitties at FixNation!