Two Long Beach nonprofits partner to open new low-cost spay/neuter veterinary clinic • Long Beach Post News lbpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lbpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Like the cats it literally spawns, kitten season springs out at us unawares instead of waiting patiently around the corner, like birthdays or the last day of school, when we used to have school. It’s here now, in fact hundreds and thousands of kittens will soon be born everywhere unaltered dams drop them parks, trash bins, under your house, and if you have an unspayed female at home and she’s accessible to an equally equipped male, in your socks drawer or laundry basket.
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Litters of kittens are brought to shelters frequently, sometimes nursing on their mother and other times scooped up by well-meaning humans who erroneously think the mother has abandoned them. Those motherless kittens are fragile and would die without care.
Two local animal advocacy groups invite community to Zoom presentation on World Spay Day Plus, meet a few lucky adoptables • Long Beach Post News lbpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lbpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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.