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I’d be remiss as a pet columnist if I didn’t post a Valentines-themed adoption article. Adopting a pet always has love at its source, but sprinkling photos of adoptables with hearts, red paws and other little visual nonpareils brings the point home and could help bring the pet home as well.
For this week’s adoptables, I decided to get as personal and down-home as possible, so I accessed a neighborhood group. The historic Wrigley area is one of the oldest neighborhoods in town and also one of the most neighborhoodly. The area forms a polygon whose borders comprise the 405 Freeway, the Metro Blue Line, Long Beach Boulevard, Pacific Coast Highway, and the Los Angeles River. Wrigley has its own homegrown Christmas parade; lovely dwellings, many of which were built in the 1920s and 1930s; and a private Facebook group for residents to express and exchange ideas about sustaining their neighborhood’s character and livableness. In all sense of wonderful, Wrigley al
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DHA shelter projects manager Steph Carter has a big hug for Major on the day of his official adoption. Photo courtesy of DHA
The White House has been home to a variety of presidential pets, possibly rivaled only by Noah’s Ark. Cats of all stripe; dogs of all spot; plus silkworms, goats and horses; caged birds; raccoons; hamsters and rats; bunnies; squirrels; lizards; chickens and turkeys; a couple of ill-advised choices like grizzly bear cubs, wallabies and tigers, all of which were gifts and were promptly delivered to zoos or “museums”; a cussing parrot; and one trick pony, owned by Zachary Taylor.
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Last week’s The Scratching Post adoption section featured three pet videos instead of the usual four. A shelter cat named Panda was slated to be one of the stars he’s an orange kitty with a mass on the bridge of his nose that squashed his big face, particularly the eyes, into an odd but endearing configuration. Here’s the video starring this singular fellow that Long Beach Animal Care Services volunteer Susan and I had made.
Panda shows his cuddle to volunteer Susan. Video by Kate Karp
There was something about Panda that got to everyone at the shelter. If I had another room in my house, I’d have taken him home we figured that there were tender hearts that would beat the same way, and someone would come for him. On the day before the article was posted, the results of a biopsy on his nose revealed that Panda has a malignant tumor that shelter veterinarians said was too large and too advanced for a good prognosis.