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Feral cats – Step 3) Trapping that cat!

Whether you’re a master trapper or just a beginner, please thoroughly read our trapping protocol to make sure you trap safely according to the FixNation-specific protocols.
Humane Trapping Instructions
Key highlights to remember:

Never leave a trap out unattended overnight or for any length of time, whatsoever, for any reason.
Do not trap cats after midnight the night before your appointment; tame strays need to be taken in off the streets before midnight. This is due to the fact that if the cat eats after midnight, they will likely vomit while undergoing anesthesia and …

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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 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 …

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Feral cats – Step 4) Appointment Day

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 …

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Heaven On Earth’s “Transport Program” for San Fernando Valley Residents
Heaven On Earth’s “Transport Program” for San Fernando Valley Residents

Heaven on Earth Society for Animals, a leading animal rescue group in the Los Angeles area, has launched a transportation program to and from FixNation clinic, specifically for residents within the San Fernando Valley. All you need to do is the trapping, and then HOE will pick up your cats, transport them to FixNation for their spay/neuter appointments, and then return them to you at the end of the day. To schedule transportation with them, please call (818) 474-2700 ext. #6 or email them at spay@heavenlypets.org.

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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 …

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