Virtually Pets
Saturday, about 100 adorable little dachshunds will be enjoying themselves, putting on a hilarious semblance of a race for thousands of adoring spectators at Los Alamitos Race Track. I’m not sure where most of them came from, but they all seem to be coddled and spoiled. Good.
Among them is Ladybug, who introduced the Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals story. She did come from a shelter—yet another example of purebreds dumped in shelters. Want one of your own? Here’s a whole page full.
Using “dachshund” as a keyword on Petfinder, PetHarbor and other websites that aggregate shelter and rescue pets will also give you “dachshund and …” mixed breeds. They need homes, too. In honor of Ladybug and of any dog that may have been thought of as being “misbegotten,” here are a couple of doxie mixes.
Little Toby urgently needs a quiet foster or a home. He was found in a box in front of a Walmart, completely terrified, hungry and thirsty. He’s scared of men and has to gradually learn that the world is not all bad. Toby needs a very calm, adult household, preferably a female household with access to a secure yard, as he is too scared yet to go on walks. He absolutely loves other dogs, and they help him to overcome his fear of humans, so the rescue is looking to place him into a home with another dog. Toby will need some love and patience to become a happy guy and enjoy life again. Contact [email protected] for more information.
This is Jenny O. She’s a sweet young girl about two years old who’s had a couple of births herself. No more of that—she needs a good home with people who love her. For more information about Jenny O, contact [email protected].
Mark Your Calendars (the People Way)
Petco’s Be a Foster Event, with Helen Sanders CatPAWS
Saturday, July 22, 1:30PM–3:30PM, Petco, 6500 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach
Free event
Fosters for pets are in short supply, as anyone who’s friends on Facebook with an animal advocate will tell you. For anyone who would like to foster, or learn more about fostering, CatPAWS will be partnering with Petco this Saturday for Petco’s nationwide Be a Foster event! Come by and learn what it takes to be a foster. Fostering saves lives, and we are forever grateful for those who choose to open up their homes to help. Applications will be available at the event for anyone who would like to apply to foster with CatPAWS. We hope you can join us!
Drag Queen Bingo Fund-Raiser for Fix Long Beach
Sunday, July 30, 4:00PM, Paradise Bar and Restaurant, 1800 East Broadway, Long Beach
No cover; donation for Bingo cards
Sunday can be a real drag, and that’s a good thing for pets and their owners! Long Beach Pride 2017 Imperial Court Empress Mia Farrow and her entourage will be calling numbers and awarding prizes both silly and sweet. The funds from the event will go toward Fix Long Beach to help people who can’t afford to spay or neuter their cats and dogs. They offer free spay/neuter projects, low-cost vaccines, free microchips and education, which is also free. Drag Queen Bingo offers a lot of fun in the process!
22nd Annual Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals
Saturday, July 22, 6:30PM–9:30PM, Los Alamitos Race Course, 4961 Katella Avenue, Los Alamitos
$3 for adults; free for kids 17 and under
Julie Woods’s Darcy, 2016 Wienerschnitzel Champion. Photo courtesy of Los Alamitos Race Course
Herding cats is nothing when it comes to getting dachshunds to race along a course—but that’s the fun of it all! This oft-hilarious event features one qualifying race, 10 trials, one specialty “big” versus little match and, of course, the grand championship at the end. Each trial winner will receive $100, and the champ will get a bunch of prizes, including a $1,000 award—that’s a lot of grain-free kibble! Come early, because this event is very popular, and general admission fills up quickly! No ice chests, and no dogs allowed at event except for the racing guys. Best of all, all proceeds go to Seal Beach Animal Care Center. Visit the Wiener Nationals website for more info!
spcaLA July Foster Class
Saturday, July 22; 10:00AM–noon, spcaLA PD Pitchford Companion Animal Village and Education Center, 7700 East Spring Street, Long Beach
Free event—spcaLA provides all the supplies. Foster parents provide the home and the TLC.
Want to help pets? Become a foster parent by submitting an application and attending a foster class. Application available here. Please call 323-730-5300 x300 for more info. We can’t do it without you!
Summer Events with Shelter Pets!
Monday, July 24–Thursday, August 24, Band events’ van arrival at approximately 4:30PM, Movies in the Park’s van arrival at approximately 6:00PM. See schedule for locations.
Events are free; adoption fees apply (senior pets are discounted at $20!)
Don’t you love previews of coming attractions? At this year’s Summer Events at our parks and beaches, you can preview our pets and make room for some of them in your home! ACS’s new mobile vehicle will be attending all of these events before they start and leave when they begin. A heads-up—and a tails up—for you!
Municipal Band events start at 6:30-Van will arrive around 4:30-5:00pm
Movies in the Park start at Dusk (approximately 8:00pm)-Van will arrive around 6-6:30pm
Van is estimated to leave when the event starts.
July Events
7/24—Monday—Drake Park, 951 Maine Avenue, Long Beach (Movie in the Park)
7/28—Friday—Houghton Park, 6301 Myrtle Avenue, Long Beach (Movie in the Park)
7/31—Monday—Ernie McBride Park, 1550 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, (Movie in the Park)
August Events
8/1—Tuesday—Signal Hill, 2175 Cherry Avenue, Signal Hill (National Night Out)
8/4—Friday—El Dorado Park, 2800 N Studebaker Road, Long Beach (Muni Band)
8/10—Thursday—Bixby Park, 130 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach (Movie in the Park)
8/18—Friday—Silverado Park, 1545 W 31st Street, Long Beach (Movie in the Park)
8/24—Scherer Park, 430 E 49th Street, Long Beach (Movie in the Park)
‘Guys and Dolls’ Fund-Raiser for FOLBA
Thursday, July 27, 6:30PM–approximately 11PM, Long Beach Playhouse,5021 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach
$30; includes play and reception
We’re willing to gamble that you’ll enjoy yourself at this production of the Tony Award-winning musical Guys and Dolls! Talk about a winning trifecta: a reception with tasty “paw food” and Ralph Brunson’s expert tickles of the ivories; a production of the classic musical based on Damon Runyon’s tales of mugs, hot tomatoes and playing the ponies; and the Dine Out Raffle and Silent Auction and door prize drawing by FOLBA canine volunteer Ruthless McKenzie. All that lettuce from the proceeds goes to FOLBA, Long Beach’s most venerable animal-welfare charity! It’s no sucker’s bet that you’ll have a whoopee of a time!
Pet Adoption Event at PFE
Saturday, August 5, 11:00AM–3:00PM, Pet Food Express, 4220 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach
Adoption fees apply
Find your new BFF and everything that he or she could ever want or need, in one place. Long Beach Animal Care Services (ACS) and 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.
Fix Long Beach Free Spay/Neuter Clinic
Saturday, August 12, 7:30AM–4:00PM, Houghton Park, 6500 Atlantic Avenue (near Jordan High), Long Beach
Free to qualifying residents; free microchips; low-cost shots ($10 each); $10 flea med doses
The grassroots free spay/neuter organization 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 and Eldad Hagar.
Visit this link 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’s Amazon Wish List link to donate items, or bring them to the event if you find a better deal!
Let’s continue to help make Long Beach no kill, one pet at a time!
Saving Kittens Workshop and “Kitten Shower”
Monday, August 14, 6:00PM–8:00PM, Veterans Park Community Center, 101 East 28th Street, Long Beach
Tickets $10, available at the Kitten Lady website and the Eventbrite link
The Little Lion Foundation, Helen Sanders CatPAWS and City of Long Beach Animal Care Services are teaming up to hold a two-hour information-packed Saving Kittens Workshop with Hannah Shaw, the orphaned-kitten warrior from Kitten Lady. Kitten Season pretty much runs all year long here in Long Beach, and it’s in full swing now—the shelter and rescues are full, and we need people to save the lives of some of the most helpless but promising creatures in the world—neonatal kittens who may have been born just hours before they’ve reached decent human contact. You will learn everything there is to know about saving kittens’ lives in this fun, interactive event! Our friends at Pet Food Express will be there, too! We hope that this event will find lots of fosters hyped and ready to save more tiny lives!
This will also be a Kitten Shower, so please feel free to bring kitten donations such as KMR, bottles you’re your pet-store employee to point out the ones that are used for neonatal kittens), Nulo brand chicken and turkey canned food, baby blankets, and kitten toys! We have 175 seats to fill, and they’ll likely fill up quickly, so claim them now! See event heading for website.
Let’s save some tiny but mighty lives because every cat deserves to roar!
Ongoing
Free Pet Food Distributions
Papa, a big “teddy bear’ of a dog, sits with his human in Ashlee’s Pet Care station at Beacon for Him.
Beacon for Him 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.
The Pet Food Bank is sponsored by Christian Outreach in Action. COA is located at 515 E 3rd St, Long Beach. Hours are Thursday from 9:00AM to 11:00AM.
Shelter-Enrichment Supplies Needed for ACS Dogs!
Drop-off: Wednesdays through Fridays, 10:00AM–5:30PM and Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00AM–4:00PM, 7700 East Spring Street, Long Beach
Individual donations requested
ACS is continuing our kennel enrichment activities for our canine guests here and could use so more donations (there are plenty for the cats!). Here is what’s needed:
- creamy peanut butter
- yogurt
- beef broth (canned or in the box)
- chicken broth (canned or in the box)
- incense
- carabiner clips (heavy duty)
- ice cube trays
Donations are tax deductible. Our pups say thanks so much!
IndieGoGo Fund-Raiser for Trots Dogs Incorporated
Until beginning of September
Individual donations
Long Beach resident Johanna “JoJo” Stanford started Trots Dogs Inc. in 2009 after being inspired by Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer. Stanford says that her goal is “to 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.”
Stanford’s 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.
“You’ll be helping us fund a model that could turn a ‘dog-friendly city’ into a city of friendly dogs,” Stanford said. “Imagine the possibilities of having an entire city of balanced dogs who are happy, obedient, well behaved and pay attention.”
spcaLA Friends for Life Summer Camp™ Registration!
Begins April 17, 10:00AM on this link
$350 for each camper
spcaLA Friends for Life Summer Camp is for kids 8 to 13. At camp, kids learn the basics of pet care and responsibility, respect for all animals, and the beginnings of dog training, all while making new friends! There are eight Monday through Friday sessions, running June thru August.
Long Beach Animal Care Services (ACS) Information for Low-Cost Vaccinations and Spay/Neuter Clinics
7700 East Spring Street at entrance to El Dorado Park (no fee for shelter visitors), Long Beach
Prices vary
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 for information on clinics that accept the vouchers and for other spay/neuter assistance.
For low-cost vaccines, visit this link. Note that pet owners must be 18 years or older, all pets must be on leashes or in carriers, and only healthy and non-pregnant animals will be vaccinated. Please bring prior vaccination information with you to the clinic. Vaccination and microchip services are provided for pets residing in any city. Licensing is provided for residents within our jurisdiction at Saturday clinics; please bring your renewal notice and rabies certificate with you.