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Top 10 Tips for Getting Your Tenacious Trap-Savvy Cat

Some cats just don't seem to want to go into the trap, no matter how hard you try. You've used smelly bait, you've withheld food to get them hungry, and yet you still sit out night after night and come up with an empty trap! Here are the top 10 tips and tricks I've collected over the years that may help you nab your wily kitty: Pray. Even if you don’t pray...pray. Drink. Even if you don’t drink...drink. Communicate telepathically with the cat. Even if you don’t believe in communicating telepathically with a cat...send them mental mindwaves to let them know their [...]

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

A young couple, James O'Neel and Justine Hong, came in to FixNation recently for trap training classes. They had an orange tabby cat who needed to be TNR'd. This orange girl constantly hung out on the top of a concrete wall in between their condo yard and the yard next door. According to James and Justine, this orange kitty would not come down onto the ground for anything! They only ever saw her up on the wall. She was very skittish and very elusive. While this Cirque du Soleil aerial scenario would present a tricky challenge for any trapper, the [...]