• Home
  • About Us
    • A Short History
    • Meet Our Founders
    • Mission Statement
  • Contact Us
    • Address & Directions
    • Hours of Operation
  • FAQs
  • Gallery
    • Our Clinic
    • Fun Photos & Videos
  • Volunteer
  • Donate
    • Types of Donations
    • Our Major Donors
Home » Archive

Articles tagged with: feral cat

Getting Started »

Feral cats – Step 1) Complete an application

Feral cats are outdoor, free-roaming cats who are not socialized to humans. They are generally wild and unhandleable. Whether you have just one or two cats or kittens who showed up in your yard, or if you are dealing with a feral cat colony of many, you will need to complete our feral cat application form. For more clarification on the differences between feral, stray and tame cats, see our FAQ section (above link).

Feral cats will need to come to our clinic in humane cat traps, which we can loan …

What We Do, caregivers »

What is TNR?

What Is TNR?

Trap-Neuter-Return, or TNR for short, is the humane approach to controlling feral cat overpopulation. It’s a community-based program that involves concerned citizens like you trapping cats in your neighborhood, bringing them to a clinic like FixNation to get them fixed, and then returning the cats to the exact spot where you trapped them so they can live out the rest of their natural lives.

There exists in the Los Angeles area a very large population of homeless, stray and feral cats. Given their strong survival capabilities and prolific breeding, …

Getting Started »

Appointment day

Check-in time for all cats is is between 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. daily. If you are bringing tame cats, we ask that get to the clinic by 8:00 a.m. to allow more time for health exams before surgery.

Pick-up time is before 5:00 p.m. every weekday except Thursdays. We have extended hours on Thursdays until 7:00 p.m.

If you did not catch any cats for your appointment, please give our office a call that night or first thing in the morning to let us know you won’t make it. You can leave …

caregivers »

Satsuma

Satsuma
A short story by Elizabeth Cava
Aug 17, 2001

As a feral cat trapper, it’s always the one that I missed that haunts me.

The one that won’t go in the trap.

Incoming call to Best Friends Catnippers’ hotline:  “Please help!  Starving, stray cats are getting run over in the street.”

Satsuma Street Site:  North Hollywood, California.

Site History:  Elderly man feeding 18 cats dies.  Bank takes over.  Property sits vacant in limbo.  The 18 cats?  Left on their own.  To starve.

Neighborhood agrees to feed these now-feral (or wild) cats if we implement trap/neuter/return, a humane …

« Previous Page

Twitter

Donate now via PayPal!

Join our Email List

Receive Our Newsletter
Email:
For Email Newsletters you can trust

Tags

about us adoptions amazing stories applications Best Friends Catnippers caregivers cat breeds and descriptions dogs donating events feral cat media medical merchandise news organizations press prices services spay/neuter assistance Star tame cat TNR trapping projects trapping tips traps vaccine clinics volunteering

Become a FixNation Fan on Facebook!

FixNation on Facebook

ADOPT ME!

    … OR ME!

    Recent Updates

    • FixNation and Valley Vet Non Profit Team Up to Fix Feral Cats in the West Valley
    • Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
    • FixNation Needs a New Washer & Dryer
    • Hmm…What Color Is That Cat?
    • Disneyland Ferals Get Treated Like the Aristocats They Are
    • Charlie the Head Wound Wonder!
    • Top 10 Tips for Getting Your Tenacious Trap-Savvy Cat
    • An Endearing Letter From a Little Future Trapper Girl…
    • California Launches New Spay/Neuter License Plate Program
    • Purchase a Star in the FixNation Sky In Honor…or In Memory…of that Special Someone

    Blogroll

    • Alley Cat Allies
    • Best Friends Animal Society
    • Best Friends Catnippers
    • Feral Cat Caretakers' Coalition
    • Forgotten Angels Cat Rescue
    • Heaven On Earth Society For Animals
    • Kitten Rescue
    • Los Angeles Animal Services (City Animal Shelters)
    • Neighborhood Cats
    • Nutrition & Other Cat Info by Dr. Lisa Pierson
    • www.spaycalifornia.com – spay/neuter directory

    Forms and Resources

    • Application for Feral Cats
    • FixNation's Clinic Flyer (English/Chinese)
    • FixNation's Clinic Flyer (English/Spanish)
    • FixNation's Vaccine Clinic Flyer
    • Instructions: Clinic Check-in and Pick-up
    • Instructions: Humane Trapping
    • Instructions: Pre- and Post-Surgery Care
    • Instructions: Safe Housing & Transporting
    • Pricing & Services List
    • Solutions: Backyard Solutions for Problematic Cats
    • Top 10 Reasons to Spay and Neuter (English/Spanish)

    © 2010 FixNation, Inc - Home | About Us | Contact Us | FAQs | Gallery | Volunteer | Donate