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Kitty Call with Greta

January 18, 2011 By Carl Verheyen Soon after we lost our very old cat Elvin to diabetes, my wife suggested we get another cat to ease the grief we all felt. I said, “No, it’s way too soon.” But she insisted on checking out an abandoned stray kitten who had showed up at FixNation, the spay and neuter clinic for homeless stray and feral cats in Los Angeles founded by our friends and neighbors Karn Myers and Mark Dodge. The kitten had been discovered one night in FixNation’s parking lot hiding under an old truck, and she was obviously very [...]

Meet Ember, a little rescue from the Station Fires

The Station Fire is the largest fire southern California has seen in over 100 years. The fire raged across La Canada, Pasadena and surrounding areas north of Los Angeles in August and September of this year, and destroyed over 140,000 acres of land and hundreds of homes. Two firefighters lost their lives, and countless animals were displaced and killed during the horrific inferno. It took until mid October to fully contain the blaze. During the period of mandatory evacuation in many of the areas, tiny little Ember was found. She was three weeks old at the time she was discovered [...]