We are often asked about what kind of traps we recommend for purchase. We are huge fans of Tomahawk live traps. They are fantastic traps that are safe, reliable, easy to use and above all, they are humane so they do not harm cats.
Tomahawk was kind enough to create a custom model just for FixNation. We encourage anyone interested in purchasing their own trap to check out this model. It will last you for years to come, and for trappers of all experience levels, it’s truly a great choice.
Prices start …

FixNation wants you to know about an important development in Los Angeles concerning TNR. Last month a local judge issued a ruling in response to a lawsuit filed against the City of LA by wild bird groups, ordering that the City of Los Angeles is suspended in supporting and promoting Trap-Neuter-Return as a means to help homeless cats.

TNR is a community-based, humane approach to controlling homeless cat overpopulation. It involves concerned citizens humanely trapping feral cats, getting them spayed and neutered (at clinics like FixNation), and then returning them to …

FixNation loans out humane traps, carriers and equipment free of charge to the public, provided you are using our services.
The traps we loan out are humane traps that won’t harm the cats. While the traps may look intimidating, they are actually very safe. Using a humane trap is the safest solution to catch a feral cat – safer for both the cat and for you. It’s also the best way to temporarily house and transport them. Furthermore, it’s safer and easier for our vet techs to anesthetize the cat through …

FixNation clinic is featured in the recent Best Friends Magazine, 25th anniversary edition. The article is titled “Caring for Community Cats in California” and highlights our East Valley Outreach Project.
Click here to read the entire article.
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Best Friends Magazine. Reprinted with permission from Best Friends Animal Society.

A feral cat is an outdoor, free-roaming cat who has never been socialized to humans and is living in a “wild” state. This could be a formerly domestic cat who has been abandoned and has reverted back to a “wild” state, or a cat who has been born on the streets and has never had any contact or interaction with humans. (Even though feral cats are wild, they should not be confused with “wildcats” like lynx or bobcats, who are not domestic animals.)
Feral cats are not handleable. They look like …

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 the FAQ section of our website.
Feral cats will need to come to our clinic in humane cat traps, which we can …

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 free-roaming cats in your neighborhood, bringing them to a clinic like FixNation to get them spayed or neutered, and then returning the cats to the exact location where you trapped them so they can live out the rest of their natural lives, ideally with a caregiver also providing food, water and shelter for them.
There exists in the Los Angeles area a very large population of …

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 us a message at 818-524-2287 x 4 or you can drop us an email at info@fixnation.org.
Check-in time for feral cats is is between 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. daily. 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 …

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 …