<\/div>\nSeveral months ago, we began planning what we conceived of as a four-part series on pet overpopulation. This was during the salad days of our column, when we met at the kitchen table not with salads but full pots of espresso and a shopping list of great ideas, and then took to our laptops to put them into poster-reality.<\/p>\n
We planned to tie the whole thing up with a video tour through Long Beach Animal Care Services to meet the new director. We collected a few questions from LBPOST readers—some supportive of the shelter, some skeptical—and put our ducks in order, metaphorically speaking. We finally conducted an hour-long interview with the new bureau manager, John Keisler, filmed by our dauntless editor, Ryan ZumMallen.<\/p>\n
It was about a month before the first part was finally shown—we all had other stuff to do—and we stretched out the time between parts one and four of our project with timely topics that came scratching at our door. Same deal went on with Part Two.<\/p>\n