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LA shelter dogs: Going home for Christmas

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By Donna Littlejohn on December 7, 2010 3:06 PM | | Comments (1) |

Los Angeles Animal Services is finding new ways to place many of the dogs that overflow the city's six shelters, including the one in San Pedro. 

Working with the Shelter Hope Project and the Humane Society, they've partnered with other shelters around the country to put dogs in areas where they're most likely to find new homes. 

In the eastern part of the country, for example, there are waiting lists for the small dogs that are so plentiful in L.A.'s shelters.

Here's a video telling about the 64 dogs recently sent to Seattle, Washington, as part of the project. Among those who have been involved is Nicky and other volunteers at the Harbor Animal Care Center in San Pedro. 

Good job everyone. Let's hope these guys find wonderful homes. 




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denise jacobsen said:

This is so wonderful. Whoever thought of this needs to be highly commended and put in charge of expanding the program county/state/nation-wide!

December 8, 2010 8:00 AM

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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.

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