Peter Zippi cats need your help
This is Chas. He's a brown tabby and is one of nearly 50 cats or kittens available for adoption through the Peter Zippi Fund for Animals.
The Hermosa Beach-based group has been inundated with cats that need new homes in the past couple weeks. They've experienced an influx of homeless animals along with a dearth of adoptions.
Other cats available include Maya, a year-old cat, below. She was akin to a teen mom, according to
volunteers who took her in just before she delivered a litter of five kittens. Her kittens have all found homes, but mom still needs someone special to take her in. She's healthy, spayed, microchipped and is up to date on her vaccinations. She's also beautiful, as you can see.
And then there's Jerico, who was hit by a car when he was only four months old and wound up in
a Los Angeles city shelter. The folks from Peter Zippi got him out of the shelter and provided the surgery needed to fix his injuries (he'll be left with a slight limp, but otherwise is OK). Donations are still needed to cover the full cost of the surgery, however, and eventually Jerico also needs a home. He's a trooper, been through a lot.
And there are many, many more. Check out the Zippi web page for available cats, and if you can help, give them a call at 310-379-1264. Open adotpions are held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays and from 1 to 3 p.m. Sundays at the VCA Coast Animal Hospital at 1560 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach.
But you can also call them for an appointment at other times.
About the Bloggers
Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
E-mail Donna at donna.littlejohn@dailybreeze.com.
Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.
E-mail Josh at josh.grossberg@dailybreeze.com.
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