Best Friends Animal Society has taken over an empty L.A. City shelter in Mission Hills on Brand Blvd. They will have a minimum of 100 animals (dogs and cats) available for adoption. The pets will be pulled from the L.A. City shelters too be put up for adoption at the Best Friends facility. Best Friends has volunteers on staff who will be working with the dogs teaching basic manners to make them more adoptable. The goal is to have each animal be in the center for 2 weeks or less, and to do 3000 adoptions in the first year. Opening day is January 28th so please come see the facility, meet the dogs and cats and hopefully take one home. Please spread the word!

There will also be a low cost spay/neuter clinic which is opening mid-February.

The Sam Simon Foundation offers free spay/neuter and non-orthopedic surgeries for low income families.  They also have a hearing dog program to train assistance dogs for the hearing impaired, as well as rescuing dogs.  They are a wonderful local resource for those in need, both of the 2 and 4 legged kind.

We are happy to announce that the 2 Corgis which went missing when the van they were in was stolen early Tuesday morning have been returned to their owners.  The other 2 dogs, both Akitas, were found yesterday along with the stolen van.  All dogs appear to be healthy and the owners are happy to have them all back.

The two Akitas which were in a van that was stolen early Tuesday morning were recovered from a shelter when the van turned up in Compton with the dogs inside.  The owners of the champion dogs picked them up at the local shelter.  The 2 Corgis are still missing.  The dogs are microchipped and can not be re-registered to anyone else.  Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the local authorities.