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Read heartwarming stories of cats who have come through our clinic, and the caregivers and volunteers who help to make our work possible.

Meet children’s book author Valerie Ingram!

We hope you enjoy this exclusive interview with author and humane educator Valerie Ingram, who recently spoke to us about her latest children’s book, Nobody’s Cats. We love this book and it’s so inspiring. It’s based on a true story? Nobody’s Cats IS based on a true story! It tells the tale of a boy who saw a tiny black cat shivering in the snow by an old shed, one of many that had been born or abandoned there. These kitties were seen as a nuisance and ignored, but the boy in the story stood up for the cats and [...]

2020-03-11T16:36:24-07:00 July 10th, 2017|Happy Tails|

Real Men Love Cats – Carl Verheyen

CAT MEN WE LOVE — Carl Verheyen, Singer, Songwriter, Musician “Cat ladies” aren’t the only ones with a soft spot for kitties. Men are big fans of felines too! We’re profiling some of FixNation’s favorite cat-loving gents in a special series of emails throughout the month of June. Enjoy! Q. What do you love most about cats? Those furry little carpet subs trolling around on the floor always make me smile. Especially when they follow me around from room to room. Q. How many kitties do you have? Just two. A 17-year-old skinny female named Marcie Dot and a big fat grey [...]

2020-03-11T16:36:34-07:00 June 23rd, 2017|Happy Tails|

Real Men Love Cats — Joe Federico

  CAT MEN WE LOVE - Joe Federico, Volunteer Extraordinaire “Cat ladies” aren’t the only ones with a soft spot for kitties. Men are big fans of felines too! We’re profiling some of FixNation’s favorite cat-loving gents in a special series of emails throughout the month of June. Enjoy! Q. What do you love most about cats? I used to be intrigued only by big cats. Lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my! Now I know there's a big cat in every kitten and a kitten in every big cat. I love getting to know both sides, the soft, gentle, purring [...]

2020-03-11T16:38:22-07:00 June 9th, 2017|Happy Tails|

Team Effort Helps Temple Cats

A Thai Buddhist temple in Ontario with a major homeless cat problem recently got some help from a diverse team of cat lovers – FixNation’s TNR expert Joe Federico, three volunteer trappers, the owner of a high desert cat sanctuary, a generous local veterinarian, and students and staff from Western University. Sometimes it takes a village!   The Thai Buddhist Temple in Ontario is known for its distinctive architecture, serene grounds, orange-robed monks and – most recently – a growing colony of several dozen homeless kitties, many of which were abandoned and somehow found their way to temple. With the [...]

2020-04-07T13:17:24-07:00 May 3rd, 2017|Happy Tails|

10 Questions for Michele Guzy, Animal Communicator

1. What exactly does an animal communicator do? Animal Communication is the ability to talk with an animal telepathically.  An Animal Communicator is a person that is able to send and receive messages to these animals through various methods such as creating images, feelings, thoughts and/or physical sensations. Many people call it a psychic ability. That is actually something very different. Animal communication is a direct form of communication with your pet that doesn’t involve reading body language or making assumptions based on current or past behavior.  Most animal communicators work with just a description or a picture of the animal instead [...]

2017-06-23T07:04:27-07:00 February 10th, 2017|Happy Tails|

Happy Tail! Cassius

We thought we’d share another FixNation success story with you! Read on: We borrowed a cat trap from FixNation in late May/early June of this year. It took us a few days of setting the trap and hiding out, but we eventually caught the sick kitty with the collar around his neck. He had really bad mange, but we gave him the shots (thanks to FixNation) and now he is all better. Anyway, just wanted to send you some photos of him now. We named him Cassius. If it weren't for Fix Nation, and you letting us borrow that trap, we don't know how [...]

2017-02-14T09:49:24-08:00 November 16th, 2016|Happy Tails|

12 Reasons to Love Black Cats

To celebrate National Black Cat Appreciation Day this August 17th, we thought we’d share a few reasons why we love our ebony kitty friends: Black cats were worshiped in ancient Egypt. Black cats have had starring role on TV shows and in the movies, such as The Simpsons, Star Trek, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Black cats are so elegant. They’re always ready for a fancy black tie affair! Black cats are like mini ninjas, practically invisible at night. How cool is that? The richest cat on earth is a black cat. His Italian owner bequeathed him $13 million when she [...]

2020-03-11T16:37:38-07:00 August 17th, 2016|Happy Tails|

Walter The Kitty

Architects for Animals “ Giving Shelter” 2016 on March 10 was a spectacular event that celebrated the artistic and innovative designs of LA’s top architects and designers. These creative geniuses compassionately donated their time to conceptualize and build state-of-the-art cat structures that any homeless cat would be lucky to inhabit.  These works of art were exquisitely photographed by the gifted product photographer, Meghan Beierle-O'Brien who also generously donated her time. “It was fun to work on an event like that where you are giving back and shooting something precious but something that’s really cool.  The architecture was pretty impressive. To [...]

2020-03-11T16:37:44-07:00 April 24th, 2016|Happy Tails|

Hell’s Kitty

Her name was Angel despite playing her hellacious self in writer/director Nicholas Tana’s soon to be released feature film based on his hit webseries Hell’s Kitty, a comedy-horror web series about a Hollywood writer and his possessed cat. Hell’s Kitty is based on Tana’s real life experiences dealing with his lovable but unruly cat. The series has a devoted following of ardent cat lovers and horror fans alike.  Tana attributes the series success mostly to his magnetic star. "It’s not so bad when you have a star like Angel in your show." What was the impetus for creating Hell’s Kitty? [...]

2020-03-11T16:37:48-07:00 April 24th, 2016|Happy Tails|

One woman’s fight to save Israel’s Cats and how FixNation is helping

When most of us think about Israel, images of bombs exploding in markets and public squares come to mind. It is a beautiful but deeply conflicted, war torn country.  Most people living there are understandably consumed with their day-to-day survival much less caring for the livelihood of millions of their country’s homeless cats. Conversely in a small town outside of Tel Aviv Israel, Riva Mayer, a cat welfare specialist and Founder of The Cat Welfare Society of Israel has selflessly made it her life’s work for the past thirty years to fight for the plight of Israel’s homeless cats. In [...]

2016-03-15T11:23:58-07:00 January 25th, 2016|Happy Tails|