Name:  Joann Keegan About:  I have been an Insurance Industry Specialist for the last 25 years, but an animal lover my entire life! City and neighborhood:  Sunland, CA Years volunteering at FixNation: 6+months What brought you to want to volunteer for FixNation:  Years ago, there was a big problem on my street, and at one time, I had over 30 feral cats living on my property.  There were many more at other homes on the street as well.  I live way back in the foothills.  I think that people just drop cats back here and think they will survive. I heard about Fixnations services by [...]

A handsome Russian blue came into FixNation as part of a large-scale T-N-R effort, a friendly boy who had recently joined a caretakers’ colony. Blue, as she’d been calling him, had shown up about a month ago, and usually came by for dinner nightly. He was a large, outgoing cat, quite different from the rest of the colony that was quite feral. The trapper resolved to find him a new home, and brought him into FixNation for neutering before putting him up for adoption. To everyone’s surprise, Blue was not only already neutered but also microchipped…and his name was Max, [...]

Name: Joseph D. Federico About: Born in Ohio, Schooled in Florida, I have lived in Southern California since 1978 City and neighborhood: Altadena, California has been my home over the last 22 years.  It's a little more wild than some of the other towns nearby like Pasadena and Arcadia, but it is full of incredibly warm and helpful neighbors that are always nearby.  It's because we have such a great community that we all join together to help the feral cats find safety and population control. Years volunteering at FixNation: I have only recently found my way to FixNation this year and have wanted to volunteer to be [...]