Find a Pet at the Zoo
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The Los Angeles Department of Animal Services is offering up adoptable animals at the LA Zoo on Saturday, June 28, from 11am-5pm.
No, you won’t be able to take home a chimp or a gerenuk. (Although you can see them on exhibit.) But you will be able to choose from 100 dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, and rabbits brought in from shelters across the city. Charlie, pictured above, is up for adoption. And if Animal Services runs out, they have others on standby, says Ed Boks, general manager of Animal Services.
The event will be held at the main entrance to the LA Zoo located in Griffith Park at the junction of the I-5 and the 134 freeways. There will be carpeting and canopies to protect pooches from the heat.
Adoption fees will also be reduced: $15 off usual canine fees of $86-$91; $28 off feline fees of $64-$68. $10 off the $50 rabbit fee.
Animal Services holds mobile adoption events at various locations on weekends but Boks is hoping this event could be an annual signature event. ‘I think domestic pets are our connection to the wild,’ Boks says. ‘Following a day at the zoo where people really invest their time and energy and intellect into viewing all these wild animals, there’s a natural connection to giving serious thought to adopting a pet--and bringing that little force of nature home with you.’
Also this weekend, on Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles is sponsoring a low-cost vaccination and microship clinic at the spcaLA’s South Bay Pet Adoption Center, 12910 Yukon Ave., in Hawthorne.
--Carla Hall
Photo: Los Angeles Department of Animal Services
