/Happy Tails

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

Contest Winner: I’m a trap and release kinda cat lady

Congratulations to Jenna Allen who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! My story begins 5 years ago when we bought our house. There was an above ground pool and rotting deck in the backyard and a pregnant cat was living under the house. She soon gave birth to a litter of three kittens. I found about FixNation shortly after that and went about trapping the momma and her kittens. By the time I had [...]

2015-12-16T20:16:07-08:00 November 28th, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: Nicholas

Congratulations to Yvonne Gomez who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! I have learned so much about my colony’s feral cats; every new experience is amazing. One day, a new feral male kitty came in to eat.  I noticed that he did not have a complete tail.  He ate and promptly left, it was dark and I did not notice his full condition at that time. One day, I saw him come in the [...]

2015-11-19T15:46:29-08:00 November 27th, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: The love goes both ways

Congratulations to Lisa Cordero who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! I am writing on behalf of our amazing colony of feral cats in Boyle Heights. Our journey began about three years ago when we noticed a feral mother cat, since named Grumpy, the loyal father cat, aptly named Poppa, and their five tiny kittens in a yard across the street. I decided to put a bowl of food outside on our front porch [...]

2015-11-19T18:00:17-08:00 November 25th, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: Gunner & B.B.

Congratulations to Jean Lupien who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! I have been taking care of a colony in North Hollywood for about 5 years. But, a family of b&w’s pushed out the other neighborhood cats and seemed to claim me as their own around 2012. No other cats dared come around. I learned about TNR’ing at that point because my landlord insisted I get them all fixed if I was to continue [...]

2019-03-19T09:07:45-07:00 November 24th, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: The beginning of my adventure into the world of TNR

Congratulations to Beryl Acosta who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! About 5 years ago my elderly neighbor, Alice, had been feeding cats that would come around. One day she told me that a Mom-Cat had emerged from under a bush in her garden with 4 little kittens. That is the beginning of my adventure into the world of TNR and the feral cats I have come to love so much. Since that time, [...]

2015-11-21T10:58:10-08:00 November 23rd, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: It definitely is worth it

Congratulations to Sandra Lynn who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! My story with community cats started about three years ago when I was leaving work and I saw a Siamese kitty wet and crying, I noticed that he was left alone when two wild dogs killed his mother in the back of the big parking lot.  I built a shelter outside of my office to protect him from cold and other predators. I was [...]

2015-12-16T16:28:48-08:00 November 22nd, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: Black cats are for loving

Congratulations to Rodger Mc Cullough who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! I am Rodger I am 54 years old this week. I have had cats all of my life. In 2000 I moved to a rural area with open space. How God guided it I will never know, but a 6 week old black kitty appeared in my yard in spite of coyotes and such. Joe became my buddy and is still [...]

2015-11-19T14:20:52-08:00 November 21st, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: Annie

Congratulations to Judy Taylor who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line, through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! Here is her story, written by Larry Taylor: It was a pathetic little thing. A tiny, filthy creature, mostly bones and matted orange-and-white fur and not a lot of that. Half of its face was covered with mange, and fleas ran wild. Its stomach, bloated with worms and parasites, ballooned out from the fragile skeleton. The insides of its ears, made comically [...]

2015-11-24T16:05:40-08:00 November 20th, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: If you feed them, you must fix them

Congratulations to Tom Pepper who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! My name is Tom and I am not a cat person. I live with my elderly parents who are cat people. But for the last 50 years, they will not go out and get themselves a cat. But they will feed strays until the cows come home. Enter tortoise colored female cat named GPS (name to be explained later), and her single male [...]

2015-11-19T18:18:38-08:00 November 9th, 2015|Happy Tails|

Contest Winner: Eleven out of thirteen

Congratulations to Sallie Higgins who won a free outdoor shelter for their colony cats and a bottle of Feral Flower Essence from FixNation board member Jackson Galaxy's Spirit Essences line through FixNation’s National Feral Cat Day story competition! When I first moved into my house in South Hollywood it had been vacant for 10 months. I soon discovered that not only had my fixer been home to the homeless but when I took possession it was still home to a dozen rapidly multiplying feral cats that had taken residence in the crawl space beneath the house. It didn’t take long to [...]

2015-11-19T18:17:45-08:00 November 8th, 2015|Happy Tails|