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Feral cats – Step 4) Trap

Please review our trapping and make sure you trap safely according to these guidelines:

Humane Trapping Instructions

Key Highlights

Whether you’re a master trapper or just a beginner, here are the key highlights you’ll need to remember:

- Never leave a trap out unattended for any length of time, whatsoever.

- Do not trap cats after midnight the night before your appointment, due to the risk of the cat vomiting while undergoing anesthesia.

- Make sure the back of the trap is locked and kept locked.

- Line the bottom of the trap with newspaper.

- Bait the …

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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 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, …

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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 …

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Heaven On Earth’s “Spay & Neuter 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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