The California spay and neuter license plates designed by actor Pierce Brosnan.
12:01pm | At the June 7 Long Beach City Council meeting, council members voted unanimously (8–0, with Councilman Gary DeLong not present) to discuss and take action on two state assembly bills involving pets.
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Pet Projects
July 9, ACS Low-Cost Pet Clinic
The next low-cost animal clinic will be held at Houghton Park, 6301 Myrtle Ave., from 10 a.m.–noon. A state-licensed veterinarian from the Southern California Veterinary Vaccine Clinic will be onsite to provide the shots, including feline and canine rabies and all dog- and cat-specific diseases. Residents can process their license renewals onsite. Click here for the full schedule and details, and here for a full listing of prices.
July 21–25, Animal Rights National Conference, Los Angeles
Animal Rights 2011 is the U.S. animal rights movement’s annual national conference. It is also the world’s largest and longest-running animal rights gathering, hailing back to 1981. The conference is scheduled at the Westin LAX Hotel, 5400 W. Century Blvd., in Los Angeles and will feature nearly 100 presenters from more than 60 organizations and several countries in seven plenary sessions, 50 workshops and a dozen rap sessions and campaign reports. Click here for information on all the programs.
The snake has been much maligned throughout literature. But a couple of nutty friends of Kate’s live in the Pennsylvania hills and have made this video of an adventure that one of them had; for opidiophiles and students of Parseltongue, this is a neat parable.