Thank you to all of the FixNation supporters who joined us Downtown to celebrate World Spay Day in honor of Los Angeles street cats.  We hope you enjoyed yourself as much as we did!
Great wine, food, music, and the company of passionate animal lovers and advocates — what more could you ask for on a Tuesday night!
FixNation. Committed to Cats. It Starts with One!

Tune in this Saturday, January 7 at 8pm to watch the Season 2 premiere of “My Cat from Hell” with Jackson Galaxy on Animal Planet.
FixNation is thrilled to be a part of this premiere episode where we spay the former feral, Larry.  Yes, we spayed Larry, who is a girl!
Check out this clip below, to get a taste of this kitty’s troubles, but watch the show to get the full story.

DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 31.
Every donation made until December, 31, will be matched by PetSmart Charities! If ever there was a time for you to help homeless cats of LA, it is now!
Your heartfelt donations to spay/neuter homeless cats in LA go twice as far when you donate now, thanks to PetSmart Charities who will match whatever you donate, dollar for dollar!
PetSmart Charities has challenged FixNation to raise $51k in new donations before the end of this year – December 31, 2011! For every dollar we raise from a new donor, …

THANKS, EVERYONE, FOR HELPING MAKE COOL CATS FOR FIXNATION AT THE G2 GALLERY FEATURING THE CARL VERHEYEN BAND ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 SUCH A SUCCESSFUL AND MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE!
Community spirit, art, music, cats and charity all came together at the wonderful G2 Gallery Friday night August 19, where everyone joined hands to support FixNation, and “get down” with the Carl Verheyen Band, performing as the “Cool Cats”.
(All photos courtesy of G2 photographer Jen May)

Our hosts, Susan and Dan Gottlieb, the founders and owners of the G2 Gallery, deserve special thanks …

Open Letter
To all of the donors, clients, employees, volunteers, sponsors, friends and supporters of FixNation:

Each year, Los Angeles Magazine searches out to find a limited number of special companies and organizations that deserve to be honored and recognized as the “Best of LA” in categories representing the wide variety of goods and services that make up the rich texture of Los Angeles as a community. This year, we are proud to say that FixNation – your FixNation – has been named the Best in our category – stray cat (spay-neuter) …

FixNation is Deeded the Plot to Toto’s Final Resting Place in Hollywood Forever Cemetery
 
Toto from The Wizard of Oz is one of the most well-known and beloved canine movie stars of all time. Say the word Toto to almost anyone in the world and they immediately know who you are talking about.
As a film, The Wizard of Oz was epic when it was released back in 1939. It was witness to the launch of Technicolor, it won several Academy Awards, and to this day it’s one of the biggest films …

Great article from the Washington Post: “Fight Over Ferals Boils Down to One Question: Do Alley Cats Live a Good Life?” We think the answer is a resounding YES, especially after they are fixed.

The latest from Vox Felina, one of our favorite blogs, on the misrepresentation and false assertions being trumpeted in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s feral cat management plan for the Florida Keys: “Cat Management Plan Reads Like Fiction.”
 

There was a great piece that aired last week on NBC Nightly News about feral cat caretaking. The piece educated about feral cats and showed how trap-neuter-return is the only humane solution to helping the cats within our communities. Very well done. Bravo NBC!

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Peter J. Wolf debunks the pseudoscience that’s all-too-frequently used as part of the TNR debate. He zooms in on the details and lays out the real facts in his recent blog post “It’s Not the Media, It’s the Message.”