The adoptable kittens here are calendar-babes-in-waiting, all ready for next year. They all have distinctive faces and characters. Visit this link\u00a0<\/a>to fill out an adoption application.<\/p>\n Note that for the month of September, CatPAWS will donate all adoption fees collected to support Best Friends efforts toward helping displaced pets in the areas hit by the hurricanes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Before being taken in by CatPAWS, Pat Sajak<\/strong>\u2019s wheel of fortune had stopped on bankrupt and Alex Trebek<\/strong> was in jeopardy of losing his life. The two game-show namesakes are 4-month-old brothers who deserve to be winners all their lives. Alex is a little shy but is very curious. He loves to play with stick toys. He will chase soft pom-pom balls and then carry them around in his mouth. Pat is cautious, but once he trusts you, he rolls over for belly rubs. He loves to wrestle with his brother and little Kong toys or stuffed animals. They are both so sweet!<\/p>\n Claude<\/strong> has the face of an aristo-cat waiting for the sculptor to finish the last touch. He\u2019s 5 months old and a complete love. When his foster takes him for private playtime, he purrs loudly and begs for more and more petting! Like many kittens, he can become overstimulated, but his loving human companions are working with him on this.<\/p>\n It seems as if every year, numerous pet calendars crop up faster than you can say \u201cpenthouse.\u201d They aren\u2019t the ones you can buy online or at bookstores\u2014full-color glossies of strangers with fur, feathers or scales adorning each month. The pets in these calendars live in actual homes\u2014maybe yours\u2014and are selected through donations to pet rescues. I figured that a separate section is in order until the entry deadline. Pick your pet picture and enter!<\/p>\n Helen Sanders CatPAWS \u201cShow Us Your Kitties\u201d Calendar Fund-Raiser<\/strong><\/p>\n To September 15 at this link\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n $5 donation per initial entry, $1 donation for each subsequent vote<\/strong><\/p>\n Hey, CatPAWS Community and all fellow Cat Lovers! It is time for you to…Show Us Your Kitties!\u00a0CatPAWS\u2019 annual Calendar Contest Fund-Raiser has begun! Submit photos of your beautiful cats and kittens for a chance to be featured in the 2018 Show Us Your Kitties Calendar! It’s simple\u2014submit an entry photo of your cat or every cat that has touched your heart. The 12 cats that raise the most donations in the form of votes will have their photos featured as one of the months in the calendar, and the cat or kitten with the most total votes will be featured on the cover. All donations will cover CatPAWS\u2019s rescue efforts and medical bills. Let’s honor all those cats or kittens we\u2019ve been privileged to love and raise money for those who haven’t had the chance yet. Submit your photos here\u00a0<\/a>and read the full set of rules.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Friends of El Dorado Dog Park Holiday Bone-anza and Calendar Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, November 19, 10AM\u20134:00PM (Calendar Contest Entry Deadline September 30), El Dorado Dog Park, 7550 East Spring Street, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Calendar Contest free to enter: Bone-anza free to attend<\/strong><\/p>\n Friends of El Dorado Dog Park is announcing its third-annual Pet Photo Calendar Contest and fund-raiser. The top winner will be on the cover page, and the next 12 winners will each have their own calendar month.\u00a0The Calendar Contest winners\u00a0will be announced at\u00a011:00AM\u00a0at the Holiday Bone-Anza. The 2018 calendar\u00a0will be available to purchase\u00a0for $20 at the event. Even if your entry isn\u2019t selected as a winner, every dog entered will be spotlighted\u00a0in the calendar. Application is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Bone-anza will be a fun-filled event featuring food trucks, vendors for your holiday shopping, contests, a DJ featuring Christmas sounds, elves, your doggie\u2019s photo with Santa, and a silent auction and raffle featuring great gifts from our sponsors.\u00a0All proceeds\u00a0from both the calendar and the event will go to support enhancements of the El Dorado Dog Park.<\/p>\n Home at Last! Coldwell Banker\u2019s Third Annual Adoption Event<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, September 9, 11AM\u20133PM, Centinela Feed and Pet Supplies, 4700 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Free to spectate; adoption fees apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Three years ago, Coldwell Banker and Adopt-a-Pet.com<\/a>, an aggregate\/search facilitator for adoptable shelter pets nationwide, created the \u201cHomes for Dogs\u201d event, whose objective is to get as many pets out of the shelters and rescues and into loving homes. In just the first year alone, the organizations helped to facilitate more than 20,000 adoptions across the country. This year\u2019s local event will be held at Centinela Feed and Pet Supplies; it promises to be yet another success!<\/p>\n \u201cWe are lucky enough to help people in the Long Beach community find new homes every day,\u201d said Phil Jones, a broker\/owner affiliated with Coldwell Banker Coastal Alliance in Long Beach. \u201cNow, we get to extend that service to homeless pets in need. It\u2019s a win-win!\u201d<\/p>\n Check out Coldwell Banker\u2019s new commercial, \u201cSomebody to Love<\/a>,\u201d a national advertising campaign that tells the story of a man and a homeless dog who find each other. The New York Times<\/i> called it a \u201ccommercial to love.\u201d We call it \u201cBreak out the Kleenex!\u201d Come home a critter.<\/p>\n Grand Opening of the Long Beach Bee Sanctuary<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, September 9, 10:00AM\u2013noon, Orange Avenue, north of Willow Springs Park between Spring and Willow streets, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Free event <\/strong><\/p>\n The Long Beach Beekeepers invite you to the grand opening of our new sanctuary\u2014a collaborative project between Eagle Scout candidate Mauri Lathouwers, his family and Boy Scout Troop 105 and the Long Beach Beekeepers. Visitors\u2019 parking is on the street or in the park. Light\u00a0refreshments, shade and restrooms will be provided. Speeches will be few and short\u2014very little buzz and lotsa honey! For their help in turning our vision of a municipal refuge for bees into reality, Long Beach Beekeepers thanks the City of Long Beach, current and former city council members, the city Office of Sustainability, the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine and its current and former commissioners, Long Beach attorney David M. Zeligs, and Mauri Lathouwers, his family and Boy Scout Troop 105.<\/p>\n spcaLA September Foster Class<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, September 16, 10:00AM\u2013noon, P. D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village and Education Center, 7700 East Spring Street, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Free event\u2014they provide supplies, and you provide the home and love. No parking fee for Village visitors.<\/strong><\/p>\n Want to help a cat or a dog become adoptable? Submit an application (available here<\/a>) and then come to a foster class!<\/p>\n Fix Long Beach Free Spay\/Neuter Clinic<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, September 23, 7:30AM\u20134:00PM, Houghton Park, 6500 Atlantic Avenue (near Jordan High), Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Free to qualifying residents; free microchips; low-cost shots ($10 each); $10 flea med doses<\/strong><\/p>\n The grassroots free spay\/neuter organization<\/strong> Fix Long Beach invites you to make an appointment for your unfixed dog, or get vouchers for free procedures for your dog or cat! These clinics are generously sponsored through Hope for Paws<\/a>\u00a0and Eldad Hagar.<\/p>\n Visit this link\u00a0<\/a>for qualifications and an application for your appointment. There is also a donation button to help Fix Long Beach continue their efforts. Click the organization\u2019s Amazon Wish List link<\/a> to donate items, or bring them to the event if you find a better deal!<\/p>\n Let\u2019s continue to help make Long Beach no kill, one pet at a time!<\/p>\n Volunteer Meeting for the Friends of El Dorado Dog Park\u2019s Holiday <\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, September 24, 1:00PM, El Dorado Bar & Grill, 3014 N. Studebaker Road, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Free<\/strong><\/p>\n Friends of El\u00a0Dorado Dog\u00a0Park (FEDDP) is gearing up for the sixth annual Holiday Bone-Anza, and we couldn\u2019t do it without our star volunteers! So please mark your calendar, and let’s make this a fun and exciting day for everyone. Our goal is to get drinking fountains in the small and large dog park, and we need you to help get our doggies hydrated! The event will take place November 19 at El Dorado Park and will include vendors, crafters, Santa visits, a silent auction and, what else, elves. And we don\u2019t mean Chihuahuas! Please help us make this great event happen! More details on our website.<\/a><\/p>\n Pet Adoption Event at PFE<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, October 7, 11:00AM\u20133:00PM, Pet Food Express, 4220 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Adoption fees apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Find your new BFF and everything that he or she could ever want or need, in one place. Long Beach Animal Care Services<\/a> (ACS)\u00a0and other rescues will be bringing some wonderful dogs ready to go home with their new people. Everything is high quality at Pet Food Express, and that includes the adoptive pets! Check out the Cat Adoption Center, featuring fine felines from Long Beach Animal Care Services and Stray Cat Alliance.<\/p>\n K9\u2019s Uncorked Benefit for the Pups<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, October 21, 5:00PM\u20138:00PM, Harvey Girls Gallery, 130 \u00bd Main Street, Seal Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Ticket prices $35 online, $40 at door<\/strong><\/p>\n Who doesn’t love wine and food? Better yet, who doesn\u2019t love animals? Join the K9 Kismet<\/a>\u00a0rescue for the fund-raising party of the year in the swell little beach community of Seal Beach! In addition to wine and food (human and dog) tastings, we will have live jazz music, adoptable dogs, a silent auction, a raffle, boutique shopping and a glass-etching class (bring your own wineglass)! Costume up yourself and your dog,\u00a0and come on and paw-ty! Sponsorship donation and tickets can be purchased here.<\/a>\u00a0You do not want to miss this one!<\/p>\n Free Pet Food Distributions<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 Papa, a big \u201cteddy bear\u2019 of a dog, sits with his human in Ashlee\u2019s Pet Care station at Beacon for Him.<\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Beacon for Him <\/strong><\/a>has extended an outreach for people experiencing homelessness and their pets. Pet food, primarily dog food, is available at their facility at 439 West Anaheim Street, Mondays from 9:00AM to noon and Saturdays from noon to 3:00PM. A dog-washing station with a stainless-steel tub is also available onsite at these hours. Donations and supplies such as shampoo, flea control and, of course, pet food are always gratefully accepted.<\/p>\n The Pet Food Bank<\/strong> is sponsored by Christian Outreach in Action<\/a>. COA is located at 515 E 3rd St, Long Beach. Hours are Thursday from 9:00AM to 11:00AM.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Shelter-Enrichment Supplies Needed for ACS Dogs!<\/strong><\/p>\n Drop-off: Wednesdays through Fridays, 10:00AM\u20135:30PM and Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00AM\u20134:00PM, 7700 East Spring Street, Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Individual donations requested<\/strong><\/p>\n ACS is continuing our kennel enrichment activities for our canine\u00a0guests here and could use so more donations (there are plenty for the cats!). Here is what\u2019s needed:<\/p>\n Donations are tax deductible. Our pups say thanks so much!<\/p>\n \u00a0 IndieGoGo Fund-Raiser for Trots Dogs Incorporated\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Until beginning of September<\/strong><\/p>\n Individual donations<\/strong><\/p>\n Long Beach resident Johanna \u201cJoJo\u201d Stanford started Trots Dogs Inc. in 2009 after being inspired by Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer. Stanford says that her goal is \u201cto provide Long Beach with a dog-training facility with structured daycare and boarding that accepts all dogs regardless of temperament or behavior by educating staff, dogs and owners. Our mission is to create a community of people who understand their dogs and want to have a loving, balanced relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n Stanford\u2019s group is looking to purchase about 10,000 square feet of warehouse space with a potty area and are partnering with a design group. Click on the link in the header to find out all the details of this enterprise.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ll be helping us fund\u00a0a model that could\u00a0turn\u00a0a \u2018dog-friendly city\u2019 into a city of\u00a0friendly dogs,\u201d Stanford said. \u201cImagine the possibilities of having\u00a0an entire city of balanced dogs who are happy, obedient, well behaved and pay attention.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0 Long Beach Animal Care Services (ACS) Information for Low-Cost Vaccinations and Spay\/Neuter Clinics<\/strong><\/p>\n 7700 East Spring Street at entrance to El Dorado Park (no fee for shelter visitors), Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n Prices vary<\/strong><\/p>\n Vouchers that take a big bite, so to speak, out of the cost of spay\/neuter procedures are available at ACS during their public hours. Visit this link\u00a0<\/a>for information on clinics that accept the vouchers and for other spay\/neuter assistance.<\/p>\n![\"Pat](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pat_Sajak.jpg\")
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<\/strong><\/p>\nPet Projects<\/h1>\n
Countin\u2019 the Days in Humane Ways<\/h2>\n
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