Adopt, adopt, adopt section has been divided into three subsections:
Links to loveables, where you can see pets in local rescues and shelters, who need to go home;
Adoptees on display, which lists permanent adoption centers where you can scope out and apply for a new furry family member; and
In fur-son events, which take place in a physical venue finally! during a specific number of days or weeks.
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Live adoptions are returning in full swing since pandemic restrictions have been eased, and efforts to find homes for cats and kittens are redoubling this year, thanks but no thanks to a kitten season that some rescuers say is worse than last year’s. The Scratching Post has been featuring cats with few canine or rabbit intervals, and it’s because of the barely manageable numbers of kittens born and trapped outdoors by volunteers. You’ll notice that this week’s featured events are cat-specific.
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The impending Mother’s Day holiday seems like a good enough reason to nudge you to take home and foster a kitten from our shelter at Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) or from one of the cat rescues listed in
Adopt, adopt, adopt. Any day would be fine, in fact.
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LBACS has reinstated its kitten foster programs. About two years ago, the shelter launched a program that saw a lot of the little critters leave the shelter and lead the best possible life with temporary parents, who socialized them, fed them, played with them, and sometimes didn’t give them back. I had two in my house for a few weeks, and of our editorial staff members each took one. Mine went back and were subsequently adopted I’m at my limit of three. Melissa’s and Valerie’s are still in their respective homes, forever, being little brothers to the established cats.
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Gift exchange! FOLBA board president Lauren Campbell hands a plaque thanking Timmons Subaru to Natalie Tiimmons, human resources manager for the dealership as Rocky Ghahary holds the check in readiness. FOLBA’s mascot chews the scenery, which beats chewing the interior of an SUV. Photo by Kate Karp.
Subaru of America’s Share the Love events are designed to pay it forward to local and national communities. Over the past 13 years, the dealership has given more than $200 to national charitable organizations such as Meals on Wheels America and the National Parks Foundation and to local ones. Timmons Share the Love efforts have included distribution of personal protective equipment to local small businesses, providing toys for children at MemorialCare Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach, and giving funds to local charities. In the space of two months November through December 2020 the recent Share the Love event collected enough money to make the ride a lot s
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