Fix & Feed Feline Feral, Inc.

08/10/2024

08/07/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Patsy Stewart, Bev Kohut

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

08/07/2024

Help raise funds! Every purchase with our name in the comments gives us 20% of your purchase. Thank you.

08/02/2024

Come see our selection of adoptable kittens Saturday from 12-4 and throughout the week. This week’s special guest is Hubert, a sassy tux who will always let you know when it’s time to eat. He’s playful and energetic but also enjoys lap cuddles. He’s been neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, deflead, microchipped, 10 weeks old and is ready to go!
We always recommend 2 kittens to avoid single kitten syndrome (think biting, attention seeking destructive behaviors). Please message me for further details.

07/28/2024

Mention our rescue name at checkout and we get 20%!! Thank you

07/26/2024

Alley cat TNR tips
Prepare and try to trap ALL cats and kittens you plan to TNR during your first trapping session. The more times cats are exposed to the trapping process, the more suspicious and avoidant they become—which makes trapping difficult!
Withhold food 24 hours before trapping, but always provide water. This will ensure that the cats are hungry enough to go into the traps. Remind other caregivers and neighbors to withhold food as well.
Always return community cats to the exact area where they were trapped. They have to go back to the outdoor home and feline family they know and cannot be released just anywhere. That’s why it’s called Trap-Neuter-RETURN and not Trap-Neuter-RELEASE.
Never leave set traps unattended; stay nearby but out of sight. Once a cat enters a trap, cover it with a trap cover, towel, or blanket ASAP to calm them. When trapping in hot or cold weather, move cats immediately to a temperature-controlled space.
ALWAYS use the proper equipment. Only use humane box traps to safely trap cats. Never use nets, darts, or tranquilizer guns, all of which are dangerous and stressful to cats and kittens. DO NOT pick up cats. For the cat’s safety and your own, don’t attempt to pick the cats up or catch them with your hands, a blanket, or the like.
Get cats comfortable with entering humane traps by feeding them out of UNSET traps for a week or two before your planned TNR date. Then when the time comes, they’ll go in with no issue!
Place the bait at the very back of the humane trap beyond its trip plate, then drizzle juice along the trap floor and out of the entrance to encourage the cat to walk in. A tiny bit of bait just inside the trap’s entrance could help, too!
Just like you have paths you walk every day, so do community cats! Be observant and watch for the trails that cats most often take. Note if there’s a certain tree or bush they like to sleep under, and what time of day they’re most likely to be in a specific area. Set your humane traps at these places and times.
Once community cats are trapped DO NOT remove them from their humane trap. The veterinarian will remove them after they are anesthetized for surgery, and you can release them from the trap when they are recovered and ready to return to their outdoor home. If a cat must be moved to a larger enclosure, such as for a longer recovery time from surgery or other medical concerns, use a transfer cage.
Make sure every recovery space is temperature-controlled, especially shortly after surgery. Anesthesia impacts a cat’s ability to regulate her body temperature.
Cats can be returned to their outdoor homes 24 hours after surgery if they’re clear-eyed and alert. Female cats may need longer to recover from spay. The clinic may ask you to make exceptions for other cats who are slow to recover or need continuing post-operative care.

Tips For Hard-to-Trap Cats

If you’re having trouble, try to lure the cat into a more confined space. It’s easier to trap when you don’t have to do it in the great outdoors! Place food into a smaller space you can close in, like a garage or shed. Hide and wait for the cat to enter, then shut the door behind her. Before you lure the cat in, prepare the room with a set humane trap with more bait inside.
Put a stick in it! For cats who have learned to step lightly to avoid triggering their humane traps, slide a stick through the side holes of the trap just in front of the trigger plate and a few inches off the trap floor. The cat will be forced to step over the stick and her paw will land harder on the trigger plate just beyond it.
Get creative! Try to camouflage the trap with a material like burlap. Then, place leaves, small branches, palm fronds, or whatever is in the natural environment around the top, sides, and on the floor inside the trap. Just run a test first to make sure your disguise doesn’t interfere with the trap door closing!
Learn more TNR tips for those savvy, hard-to-trap cats at alleycat.org/HardToTrap.

07/16/2024

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉

Carol Kramer, Sherry Ervin, Heidi Mauter-Hale, Holly Dolland, Ariana Lia Anderson

07/14/2024

This is the letter I sent to florida house of representative Paul Renner (speaker of the house for the state of florida): Mr. Renner,
I’m writing during this record hot summer with my grave concern for polk county animal control/services and any other animal control or taxpayer funded shelter in the state of Florida LACKING AIR CONDITIONING for the animals. Will anyone go up against Sheriff Grady Judd? The sheriff should not be in control of Animal Services. Police have no role in animal welfare. The animals brought there by well meaning citizens in good faith that they will be taken care of are being misled. If I leave my pets in a hot house with no air conditioning it’s inhumane.
Here is the email [email protected]

You may have read the headlines already: Viral photos of living conditions for cats at Polk County Animal Control spark debate...

There's a rally today at the animal control to help give these cats a voice and hopefully help some improvements be made... if all the cats have is fans circulating hot air, they really need air conditioning!! 🌞😿

This time of year is especially brutal here in Florida, there's more info about the rally here: https://www.facebook.com/events/832238945527088/?ref=newsfeed

07/11/2024

Huge thanks to Weruva, the TNR cats love their varieties after neuter surgery!

07/10/2024

Post your kittens!! Give them an extra treat today

07/09/2024

Cheekster update! 2 more days and I will check with vet to make sure the cone can come off. Once we are in the safe zone I think cheeks will go to a foster. Then we will be scheduling a hernia repair for a different torn up street cat I took in 😬

07/06/2024

Tampa FL - We still have around 10 cats that need to be relocated to barn homes or sanctuaries ASAP before the storage containers on the property that they shelter in are demolished...

Work as already started on the property and several promising barn cat locations/owners have just stopped replying, time is running out!

Please let me know if you can take a barn cat or two? (please send direct message to the page) we're willing to transport and also provides supplies for the right locations to make sure they are safe and have a nice life!

Thank You

07/06/2024

07/04/2024

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07/03/2024

Mention Fix & Feed Feline Feral, Inc. at checkout and we will receive 20% of your order

07/03/2024