I’m 46, have a studio apartment, a bad attitude and 3 cats. I grew up on a horse ranch in Montana, but have been in LA since ’85, when i moved out here to go to college. I worked in the music industry as a writer for a trade mag for ten years, and recently have had the opportunity to start writing again for an online music magazine. I’ve played in a couple punk bands, and actually got paid as a professional musician, which was kind of strange. I love …

I started volunteering with Catnippers ten years ago and became a volunteer at FixNation three years ago after I retired from the City of Los Angeles. Today, I live with two cats, one of whom I adopted from FixNation. I love cats!
1.       Name: Ann Marie Jones
2.       City and neighborhood:  Glendale, Adams Hill
3.       Years volunteering at FN:  3 years
4.       What brought you to want to volunteer for FN?:  I had just retired from the City of Los Angeles and I wanted to keep busy. I had been a volunteer with Catnippers since …

Steve Lockhart has been volunteering with FixNation since 2010.  He was chosen as FixNation’s January Volunteer of the Month because of his consistent and ongoing support in the clinic, and his willingness to learn new things and take on tasks as needed to keep things moving smoothly.

Here’s a bit more about Steve in his own words:
I’m originally from Northern California and now I live in the NoHo Arts District. I’ve worked in the entertainment biz for many years. I love cats because their poo is so much smaller than dogs!!!! …

FixNation is excited to announce that part of Best Friends NKLA (No Kill LA) Initiative we are fixing pet cats from Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Pacoima, Sylmar and Panorama City for FREE!
To be eligible for this program, the owners’ must live in one of the designated areas (91405 / 91342 / 91331 / 91605 / 91402 zip codes) and have an annual household income of less than $40,000.00.  If you qualify and would like to make an appointment, it’s simple!  Just visit this link and fill out the form.  Also …

By: Hilary Stewart
Cat Cummings was an extraordinary woman.
I only knew her for a little more than 6 years, but she made a deep impact on me, and the multitude of people whose path she crossed. She was a fun, feisty, talented, intelligent, caring, responsible, driven and amazing woman and friend.
Cat moved in with me in March, to be closer to UCLA, her doctors, and the clinical trial in which she was involved. In July, I arrived home one night from being on the road for a week, and was hoping …

Dear FixNation,
As Cadette Girl Scouts, we selected the topic of the importance of spaying/neutering cats and dogs for our Silver Award Take Action Project. We learned about the overcrowding of unwanted animals in shelters, and when they are not adopted, the end result is being euthanized. We wanted people to understand that having your pet spayed or neutered is very important and can be beneficial for you, and for others.
We found that paying for the surgeries can be costly if you have multiple pets, and many owners figure that they …

by Skylaire Alfvegren
Recently, video of a hungry black bear nosing around in the suburban La Crescenta foothills made international news, as the bear turned a corner and startled a man texting his boss about the helicopters, police cars and general commotion outside his home. With three tranquilizer darts, the bear was subdued and released deep in the Angeles National Forest, but his excursion to La Crescenta underscores the fact that the neighborhood plays hosts to coyotes and other wildlife.
La Crescenta resident Rob Feldman knows this better than anyone. When his …

Back in March, 2011, Doug Christensen filled out an application for help for the Los Alamitos “racetrack kitties.”  Doug was trying to get some help for the cats and kittens at the racetrack.  He estimated there might be as many as 100 cats on site.
Doug had done his research and found FixNation, where he learned about our life-based program for stray and homeless cats, which provides free spay/neuter, vaccinations, flea treatment, and eartipping.  Doug attended one of FixNation’s free Humane Trap Training Sessions in April 2011, where he received all …

Camouflaged by darkness, a small black cat limped out from under a fence into the parking area of an industrial site. The site was also the location of a Trap-Neuter-Return project, organized by Best Friends Animal Society.  The homeless and feral cats trapped at this site were bound for FixNation, where the trapped cats would be spayed, neutered, receive rabies and distemper shots and finally eartipped.
The chill of Los Angeles winter nights was setting in. The night before, a Momma cat and her two kittens jumped down from a wall …

January 18, 2011
By Carl Verheyen
Soon after we lost our very old cat Elvin to diabetes, my wife suggested we get another cat to ease the grief we all felt. I said, “No, it’s way too soon.” But she insisted on checking out an abandoned stray kitten who had showed up at FixNation, the spay and neuter clinic for homeless stray and feral cats in Los Angeles founded by our friends and neighbors Karn Myers and Mark Dodge. The kitten had been discovered one night in FixNation’s parking lot hiding under …