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On Wednesday, Feb. 17, pet groomer Abigail Gibson will pick up her clippers, dryers, blueberry-infused facial concoction, and all the little buttons and bows she adorned her furry little customers with and close the door to her salon for the last time.
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Pawsitively Long Beach, located in the East Village Arts District at 254 Elm St., is Long Beach’s latest small-business casualty, pushed out of existence by a combination of reasons.
Gibson, who began her professional grooming career in Long Beach eight years ago, at Soggy Dog Pet Grooming, opened Pawsitively Long Beach in 2015, taking along a good number of her appreciative clients.
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Several sets of statistics indicate that most New Year’s resolutions fail by February, so I’m getting a head start. Two columns ago, I resolved to feature more dogs, and I did, one column ago nothing but dogs. OK, time to bring back the cats, along with a rescuer who spent the past eight years rescuing them and striving to save them from injury and disease.
Aurelie Vanderhoek formed Zoey’s Place Rescue, named in memory of a beloved cat, after pulling a stray momcat and her kittens from a warehouse behind the business where she worked. Since then, her all-volunteer rescue would take cats from the streets, parks and other dumping grounds and provide vaccinations, spay/neuter procedures, parasite medication and other veterinary life-serving processes. A number of them suffered from physical trauma and illness, and the healing process was long and sometimes heartbreakingly unsuccessful. The successes, however, were met with joy, particularly when they were adopt
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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.