{"id":2508,"date":"2015-07-07T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/pets\/special-delivery-shell-of-new-vet-clinic-arrives-at-acs-2\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:30:48","slug":"special-delivery-shell-of-new-vet-clinic-arrives-at-acs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/pets\/special-delivery-shell-of-new-vet-clinic-arrives-at-acs-2","title":{"rendered":"Special Delivery: Shell of New Vet Clinic Arrives at ACS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-41168\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shell.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Kate Karp.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a few months, the veterinary staff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/acs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Beach Animal Care Services<\/a> (ACS)&nbsp;will no longer have to work tail-to-tail in a space not much larger than a walk-in closet.<\/p>\n<p>Work can now begin in earnest to install and establish the new dual-purpose veterinary clinic on ACS\u2019s grounds. The clinic has been in the making since late 2013, and all the paperwork has finally paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing the clinic has been by grace of Long Beach\u2019s pet community. The idea was proposed by members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folba.org\">Friends of Long Beach Animals<\/a> (FOLBA), Long Beach\u2019s most venerable animal-welfare organization, and the construction was funded through a partnership with FOLBA and ACS (read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/pets\/acs-and-folba-tie-the-knot-dual-purpose-vet-clinic-on-the-horizon\/\">ACS and FOLBA Tie the Knot<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;for details on funding, construction and usage). Procuring the 810-square-foot shell was enabled by Claudia Hoffmann, founder of the free spay\/neuter effort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixlongbeach.org\">Fix Long Beach<\/a>; her employer, Paul Robles&nbsp;of <a href=\"http:\/\/swmobilehomes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southwest Homes<\/a>, obtained the structure&nbsp;from systems homes manufacturer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavco.com\/\">Cavco<\/a>. It was delivered Tuesday at 8:30AM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at third base now!\u201d said Robles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-41167\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cast-of-characters.JPG\" alt=\"Cast of characters\" width=\"640\" height=\"854\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Top, from left: Claudia Hoffmann, Ted Stevens. Bottom, from left: FOLBA board members Judy Crumpton, Nona Daly and Shirley Vaughan (president).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Getting to home plate will involve the installation of plumbing and electrical and furnishing the new clinic with spay\/neuter equipment, examination tables and machinery, laundry facilities and everything else necessary for a veterinary clinic. It will be utilized Monday through Friday by ACS\u2019s veterinary staff and by FOLBA as a low-cost spay\/neuter clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we can have it up and running in October,\u201d said ACS manager Ted Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>Which is when the new mandatory <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/pets\/mandatory-spay-neuter-ordinance-what-to-expect-oct-1-2\/\">spay\/neuter ordinance<\/a>&nbsp;kicks in. The new clinic will be one more resource for the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><i>Best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can\u2019t ask his patient what\u2019s the matter. He\u2019s just got to know.<br \/><\/i><i>~Humorist Will Rogers<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few months, the veterinary staff at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/acs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Beach Animal Care Services<\/a>&nbsp;(ACS)&nbsp;will no longer have to work tail-to-tail in a space not much larger than a walk-in closet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":67839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[141],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets","tag-long-beach-animal-care-services","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}