Adoption fees were being waived for qualified applicants Saturday at the PD Pitchford Companion Animal Village & Education Center in Long Beach, on the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles\u2019 20th annual Pet Adoption Day.<\/p>\n
The special event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the city\u2019s shelter at 7700 E. Spring St. The fee waivers are provided thanks to event sponsor VCA Animal Hospitals.<\/p>\n
The spcaLA said 4,986 animals have been adopted through the annual one-day event, and officials are looking forward to marking the 5,000th adopter on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The event also features giveaways, games and vendor booths by Champion Pet Foods, South Park Doggie, Dave\u2019s Pet Foods, Timberwolf, Trupanion, and spcaLA, plus special sales at the spcaLA Marketplace.<\/p>\n
KLOS-FM personalities Greg and Jordan will host meet-and-greet sessions at the station\u2019s booth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell-behaved, leashed dogs are welcome\u201d in the Vendor Village and spcaLA Marketplace. Owned dogs are not permitted inside the shelter except for adoption meet-and-greets. All visiting dogs must be current on rabies and DHPP vaccinations or equivalent. Cats and other pets are not permitted at the event.<\/p>\n
The waived adoption fee excludes dogs 3 months and younger, and some additional fees may apply.<\/p>\n
More information can be found at spcala.com\/event\/klos\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adoption fees were being waived for qualified applicants Saturday at the PD Pitchford Companion Animal Village & Education…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38856,1592,174,55906,131,133,132,27194],"class_list":["post-377330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-adoption","tag-animal","tag-beach","tag-celebrates","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-shelter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}