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Virtually Pets
On Saturday, Pet Food Express in Bixby Knolls will have its monthly adoption event (see Mark Your Calendars). These little doggies from the shelter are so deserving of placement in a forever home.
November’s the month in which gratitude is traditionally expressed, and it works both ways when you take in a pet, especially one that was formerly neglected or abandoned. As theologian Karl Barth was quoted (in a Mutts comic, of coursh), “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” Pass the peanut butter treats, please. With gravy. No stuffing, please.
Addison is a smooth-coated female Chihuahua mix, already spayed and ready to go home. She’s about 12 years old but still has lots of years left. What’s Thanksgiving without a spry granny? Ask for ID#A579379.
Manita means “little hand” in Spanish, and this girl is so named because she has only three of them. She’s about 2 years old. She was born without one of her front legs, but the staff and animal community who come to play with her say that this doesn’t seem to slow her down. She’s sociable with people, pets and kids. She’s available to go home as well, but Live Love Pet Care and Animal Rescue is also seeking a foster for her and will provide supplies and medical care. If you’re interested in fostering her, contact [email protected] for details.
Mark Your Calendars (the People Way)
Walk for the War Dogs with FOLBA at the Veterans Day Parade
Saturday, November 5, 9:30AM (parade steps off at 10:00AM), Atlantic Avenue and Harding Street, Long Beach
Free event
Just as civilians show their support for and honor veterans every year (that’s correct, it’s never enough), animal advocates and their dogs attend parades like ours in Long Beach to remember the dogs and other animals that died in service to our country. Friends of Long Beach Animals (FOLBA) will be bringing their dogs to march in the Veterans Day parade, and they invite anyone either with or without a furry buddy to march along with them. Come early in order to find a parking space, be sure that you have water on hand for you and your dog, and mind the advisory—if you feel that your dog may be nervous around parade noise and horses, it’s best that he or she stay home. See above graphics for information.
Dog Adoption Event
Saturday, November 5, 11:00AM–3:00PM, Pet Food Express, 4220 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach
Adoption fees apply
Find your new best friend 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 while you’re there!
spcaLA Dine & Donate
Wednesday, November 9, 9:00AM–9:00PM, Polly’s Pies, 3464 Katella Drive, Los Alamitos
Menu prices apply
Have breakfast, lunch or dinner and help the spcaLA animals at the same time. Dine at Polly’s Pies, and they’ll donate 20 percent of the tab to spcaLA.
Animals for Armed Forces Special Adoption Event
Friday–Sunday, November 11–13, 10:00AM–5:00PM Friday and 10:00AM–4:00 PM Saturday and Sunday, spcaLA P. D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village and Education Center, 7700 E. Spring Street, at the entrance to El Dorado Park,Long Beach
No parking fees for shelter visitors
What better way to show unconditional love to one of our brave service people and veterans than through a pet? spcaLA and Animals for Armed Forces Foundation will thank our dedicated servicemen and servicewomen by providing them access to a pet with no adoption fee. The adoption discount applies to active duty, reserve and veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and National Guard as well as immediate family members. Documentation must be provided. This benefit will also be provided at spcaLA’s Hawthorne and Pico Rivera locations. Click on the above link for locations and hours.
Fix Long Beach Free Spay/Neuter Clinic
Saturday, November 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!
Feliz Navi-Dog Fund-Raiser for 4Life Rescue
Sunday, November 13, 2:00PM–5:00PM, Medusa Salon, 23311 Brookhurst Street, Huntington Beach
$35 for wash, dry and style; $20 for photos with Santa
Halloween’s barely over, so of course, we have to get ready for Christmas and all those winter bacchanalian festivities. An appointment at Medusa (do you love the name?) will get you all styled up, and the money will go to 4Life Animal Rescue. While you get groomed, your dog can get his or her photo taken with Santa by George T., who photographs and writes about ACS’s pets. There will be a silent auction, and Massimo’s pizza will donate their sales to the event.
Pie-centage Nights’ Animal Resource Team (ART) Fund-Raiser
Thursday, November 17, 5:00PM–10:00PM, Pieology, 5027 Lakewood Boulevard,Lakewood
Menu prices
Take a nice, gooey bite out of the number of pets relinquished to the shelter! Pieology will donate 20 percent of its take to ART, a volunteer organization whose mission is “to help people in the greater Long Beach area keep the pets they love by connecting pet owners with the resources and services they need.”
Dogs of Downtown
Saturday, November 19, 11:00AM–3:00PM, Downtown Promenade between First and Third streets,Long Beach
Free event
The Dogs is coming! The Dogs is coming! Last year’s event brought hundreds of dogs to the Promenade to enjoy the dog-friendly businesses, watch agility events, drink a tail-chasing brew specifically crafted by Beechwood BBQ and Brewing for this event, and, best of all, adoptable pets from rescues and shelters! This year, it’s all returning—including Hop Kong Phooey, the aforementioned IPA—with all the photo booths, live music, vendor tables with free samples, performances and adoption rescues. All proceeds from the sale of the Hop Kong Phooey will benefit Guide Dogs of the Blind. No dog? Come anyway—maybe, just maybe, you’ll adopt a new best friend!
spcaLA November 2016 Foster Class
Saturday, November 19, 10:00AM–noon, spcaLA P. D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village and Education Center, 7700 E. Spring Street, at the entrance to El Dorado Park,Long Beach
Free to participants. No parking fee for shelter visitors.
Want to help pets become socialized for adoption? Become a foster parent by submitting an application and attending one of our classes. You provide the home and TLC; we provide the training and supplies. We can’t do it without you! Applications are available here. Call us at (323) 730-5300, ext. 300 for more information.
Ongoing
Long Beach Animal Care Services (ACS): Free Spay/Neuter and Wellness Clinics, once monthly; Low-Cost Vaccination Clinics, scheduled days monthly. Locations vary.
See flyer on web page for pricing of services
Beginning this Sunday, February 21, the Society for California Veterinary and Vaccine Care (SCVVC) will offer free spay/neuter procedures and wellness services to residents of the cities served by ACS: Long Beach, Signal Hill, Cerritos, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach. During the remaining weeks of the month, Spay/Neuter Project Los Angeles (SNP/LA) will offer low-cost vaccines, nail trimmings and topical flea treatment for residents of the same areas. Click link for locations and times and click the links next to each event for vaccine pricing and other details.
Pet owners must be 18 years or older. All pets must be on leashes or in carriers. Only healthy and non-pregnant animals will be vaccinated. If you have a prior rabies vaccine certificate, license tag or license renewal notice for your pet, please bring it with you to the clinic. Vaccination and microchip services are provided for pets residing in any city. Licensing service is provided for residents within our jurisdiction. Microchips, flea treatment and nail trimmings also available.
Photo by Milles Studios
Pet Photos with Santa and spcaLA Mobile Adoption
Monday, November 14, 21, 28 and December 5, 6:00PM–8:00PM, Los Cerritos Center, 239 Los Cerritos Center, Cerritos
Adoption fees apply
Have your pet’s photo taken with Santa! No pet? There may not be any in Santa’s sack (they aren’t holiday-gift material), but there will be plenty there to adopt! A portion of each photo package sold benefits spcaLA.
Registration for Team spcaLA for the LA Marathon
Saturday, March 18, 5k; Sunday, March 19, Marathon; Dodger’s Stadium, 1000 Elysian Park Avenue, Los Angeles
5k, $40; Marathon, $175
Join Team spcaLA for the LA Marathon or LA Big 5K and help stop animal cruelty with each step.Visit link for details
BARK Therapy Dogs Library Appearances
Various area libraries (Long Beach events generally held on Saturdays)
Free event
Dogs love unconditionally. They don’t judge or criticize. And they love a good story. Bring your children to the library to read to these lovely therapy dogs, and watch their confidence in their reading ability grow.
BARK (Beach Animals Reading with Kids) is an all-volunteer group dedicated to increasing children’s reading skills as well as interacting with pets. Check the calendar page on the group’s website, and find out more about this terrific organization.
Free Pet Food Distributions
Food for Pets in Need provides pet food to senior, homeless, low-income and homebound residents in Long Beach who otherwise may not be able to afford adequate food to take proper care of their pets.
The Pet Food Bank is sponsored by Christian Outreach in Action. See flyer for details.