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8:24 AM PDT, May 25, 2010 Downtown L.A. In The Dumps Over Dogs, Jaime Chambers reports

 

LOS ANGELES — People usually complain about excessive barking when it comes to neighborhood dogs. But in downtown Los Angeles, it’s what the animals are leaving behind that’s putting residents down in the dumps.

An influx of dogs has turned the city into a doggie dumping ground of sorts. Residents and business owners say the piles of poop and rivers of urine on city streets are a growing concern.

“The biggest problem is the pee. It drains down the sidewalk. You can’t go to any corner without stepping through it. The dogs step in it and then they track it everywhere,” one resident told KTLA.

“It’s just a distraction from the beautiful city that we live in,” said another resident.

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While the problem lies in waste not being picked up, dog owners say a park would also help.

“There aren’t a lot of open spaces. There’s not a lot of parks. But you have to kind of, I guess, make due,” Junior Purnell said.

Janene Zakreajsek, owner of Pussy & Pooch Pethouse and Pawbar, says dog owners can purchase a “pet a potty,” which features a patch of synthetic grass inside a container.

Dogs simply do their business on the indoor/outdoor potty and owners clean it up for continued use.

According to the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, an estimated 40% of downtown residents own dogs.

The DCBID launched a small marketing campaign, urging residents to practice good downtown dog etiquette.”

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October 06, 2009, 10:1AM MT
By Ted Brewer, Best Friends staff writer
This year’s Best Friends Lint Roller Party was one befitting the 25 years of saving lives, and the 25 more years to come.

Back in 1991, Francis and Silva Battista would sit at a card table in front of a market in West Hollywood and ask people to donate to an organization the couple had helped found, an organization that ran a no-kill animal sanctuary in southern Utah.

The mission of that organization — to save as many animals as it could from having to enter shelters and face euthanasia — is still very much the same, but the size and scope of its impact have come a long ways, to say the least, in the 25 years Best Friends has been in business.

Just how far the organization has come since those card table days was made rather evident at the 16th annual Lint Roller Party, held Saturday night, Oct. 3, at the iconic Hollywood Palladium to benefit the work of Best Friends’ Los Angeles Programs.

Live and silent auctions, an award ceremony, video presentations, vegetarian buffet catered by Wolfgang Puck, psychic readings, a wheel of fortune, caricature drawings, a rocking live performance by the Bangles and a bevy of other attractions and fundraising events drew a sweeping array of supporters, members, and benefactors from all over the country to the party. Approximately 600 people attended the event.

“We are celebrating 25 years of saving lives,” said Best Friends co-founder and interim CEO Gregory Castle in his opening remarks to the evening’s presentations. “With your help, we’re saving lives all over the country…. It wouldn’t have been possible without the support you’ve given us.”

Among those in the audience were a host of celebrities, including Lisa Edelstein from the television series “House.” Edelstein delivered the anniversary toast.

“A million thanks to all the founders of Best Friends,” Edelstein said. “We love you and appreciate you, and we’re so happy to be here.”

Other celebrities to walk the red carpet and pay tribute to Best Friends included Phyllis Smith from “The Office,” Monty Python’s Eric Idle, Amy Smart from the film “Mirrors,” Rachelle Lefevre from the film “Twilight,” Anna Faris from the “Scary Movie” series, M.A.S.H.’s Loretta Swit, film and television legend Robert Culp, as well as veteran actor and newly elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ken Howard.

Also there to pay tribute to Best Friends, especially to our work in Los Angeles, was the city’s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.

The anniversary celebration wasn’t just about looking backwards, but also of looking forward in anticipation of what the next 25 years will bring,” she says. “I think people [at the party] were inspired not just about the work we’ve done, but about the work we’ll continue to do in the future.”
What can you do to help? Give the Gift of a Best Friends membership to family and friends.

Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory Poo Gardens by PETaPOTTY

“Dead Or Alive” PETaPOTTY’s dog sod Last’s the full season of Fantasy Factory. PETaPOTTY made two custom PETaPOTTY’s for Rob and his dog’s. They were seen in nearly every episode. We hope to change out their grass by next season? However, It’s good to see our grass be used for so long. Only in a PETAPOTTY! The Pet’s Place Of Business Watch this episode where Rob and Drama pop of a shot in the Playpen PETaPOTTY Thrill Of A Lifetime for free on MTV.com.

Rob reminisces about the rally car jump and looks at the finest moments with Meaty and Beefy.

Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory | Ep. 11 | ‘Best Of And Behind The Scenes’

PETaPOTTY Gallery located on the corner of PCH and West Channel in Santa Monica. We will be using the showroom as another location for weekly sod pickup. Get your sod orders in by Sunday for pickup on Tuesday. If you are in the area for a day at the beach stop by and check us out. The address is 107 West Channel Road Santa Monica CA 90402. The Showroom telephone number is 310 454 0045. Store hours are Monday thru Friday 10-6 and weekends 11-7. Thank you for your continuous support. Hope you get a chance to stop by.

PETaPOTTY -”The pet’s place of business” Opens new distribution point in Hollywood Calif. Across the street from the famous Chateau Marmont Hotel makes for easy access to fresh grass or even pick up a new potty for your pooch while staying anywhere in the hollyhood! A loading zone in front makes for a near drive threw experience for sod pick up.

Todays Celeb gossip on the Chateau:
“JOSH HARTNETT The actor was rushed to hospital with stomach pains.
Josh Hartnett was rushed to hospital yesterday with stomach pains. The ‘Pearl Harbor’ star was staying at the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood when he began complaining of “excruciating” abdominal pain at around 2am. An ambulance quickly arrived and took the star to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he is currently “under observation”. In a statement, Hartnett’s representative Susan Patricola said the 30-year-old actor had suffered a “flare-up” of an ongoing gastrointestinal problem. Hartnett is currently “resting comfortably” and will see a specialist today.”- Bild.com

OrangeBone (formerly The Puppy Store), the first puppy store to open its doors to date with one big dramatic difference–OrangeBone carries only shelter and rescue puppies and some mature dogs!

OrangeBone is the first store of its kind to evolve from selling purebreed puppies (puppymill dogs) to shelter and rescue animals. Located on Melrose Avenue (between Fairfax and La Brea Avenue) in Los Angeles, the Mecca for fun, fashion and celebrities. Their aim is to provide a fun informative and exciting shopping experience and above all to support the human-animal bond. They are always on the front line with the latest trends, hottest pet fashions and accessories. We are searching everyday for unique and exciting pet products so you can rest assured your pet will be wearing the latest in chic, hip and fun apparel. We only carry the highest quality products. Come and see for yourself what everyone is talking about! OrangeBone.com

With a length of 70m, a beam of 12,5m and her seven decks, Reverie is the largest yacht built in Italy in the last fifteen years. This fabulous vessel of 1500 tons combines the space of a cruising ship with the richness and luxury of a magnificent megayacht. The interior design and decor were entrusted to the famous English designer John Munford, who proposed classic furnishing in dark mahogany and walnut. The furniture is in Regency and Imperial English style with vaulted ceilings showing fresco paintings. Columns, pilasters and capitals with floral design have been widely used, as well as a profusion of exclusive marbles. Every single detail has been carefully selected in order to make this yacht a very exclusive and unique vessel.

RNR Yachts

Los Angeles based PETaPOTTY flies to New York and takes on 3000 dogs in a week at the 133rd Westminster dog show. They say if you can make it there you can make it anywhere, well PETaPOTTY definitely made it there. Let the urine flow. From The hotel Pennsylvania’s Penn Top Ballroom where 300+ dogs used the PETaPOTTIES to the Hotel Pennsylvania’s green room where the PETaPOTTIES accommodated 3000+ dogs. The PETaPOTTIES managed to contain tens of gallons of urine in their lower trap pans. Top Dogs from around the world converged on the Hotel Penn’s green room to use the facilities ranging from potty facilities to dog grooming stations to doggy masseuses. It was a raging river of urine and the PETaPOTTIES withstood the torrent. The hotel was so happy with the performance of the PETaPOTTIES that they spread several units around the hotel in key dog traffic areas.

While in town PETaPOTTY owner/creator Brandon Hochman took in the entire Westminster Dog Show. He was able to rub elbows with all the top dogs including last year’s winner Uno. Brandon and Uno bonded and had many in depth conversations about dog’s potty needs.

The entire Westminster week was a huge success for PETaPOTTY. PETaPOTTY plans to make an annual pilgrimage to the event and become part of the Westminster tradition.

The big night is approaching for 2,400 pampered dogs in New York.

T.J. Simers
February 8, 2009
Los Angeles Times

From New York — Page 2 here at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, which begins Monday, but first the PETaPOTTY party.

Try saying that three times in a row while having a drink and watching the floor to avoid stepping on a Shih Tzu.

The Celtics are playing across the street in Madison Square Garden, while here at the Fashion Show on the 18th floor of the Hotel Pennsylvania, hundreds of guests and dogs are dressed alike, Eli the Chihuahua wearing a wonderful silver satin fabric shirt, full vest, of course, with black and clear rhinestones.

Eli the Chihuahua, by the way, is better dressed than Myung J. Chun, The Times’ videographer, who is here to document the next few days. Chun, told he’d be shooting video of the dogs in New York, initially thinks he’s going to a Clippers game.

AIRFARE TO New York, cab ride, hotel room, expensive restaurants and there is no prize money at Westminster. Yet there are more than 2,400 dogs here representing 170 breeds competing for ribbons and an ego boost — Choking Dogs for some reason not recognized as an official breed, but still California with 265 entrants to lead all states.

A beagle, Uno, won last year. A Brussels griffon, Lincoln, is favored this year. A writer, Charlotte Reed, quotes Uno extensively in something called “the blue boo,” and people think Uno is special.

There are 1,000 dogs staying in the Pennsylvania, and while I wonder who is checking into these rooms next week, there’s no containing the excitement of Jerry Grymek, who is wearing a name tag that identifies him as hotel “doggie concierge.”

“We welcome you with open paws, ha, ha,” Jerry says, obviously wanting to be a doggie concierge ever since he was a little pup.

“Oh, let me show you our doggie spaw — ha, ha,” he says, “where everyone is considered a VIP, ha, ha, very important pooch.”

There isn’t a blade of grass or a tree within miles of here, “but we have a loo downstairs for our guests with separate his and her areas because everyone gets their privacy,” says the concierge.

SKYBARk Pre-Westminster Fashion show Golden Paws Award was the place to be Friday night in NYC! who’s who in the dog community were there to network a parade of “well behave owners” and “fashionable dogs” filled the Red Carpet reception area, were celebrities such as “CELEBRYPUPS” Bocker, Eli, Tito, Andrew, Jilli and Elvis posed with Dr. Ruth…whom after spending a lond day giving speeches at universities came to support her good friend Dr. Dave and Elvis. Ada Nieves “Moulin Rouge” Fashion Show was part of the entertainment… Our Master of ceremonies was Maria Milito (Q104.3 fm) a list of models include guests from the shows :The greatest American Dog ( CBS ) Andrew & Elvis From Underdog to Wonderdog; Andrea Arden & Ali Mclean Groomer has It Jonathan David , Jorge Bendersky faithful friends (Animal Planet ) Kathleen Sepulveda The newly formed group ; Celebripups – Eli, Tito, Jilli, Andrew, Bocker, Vanilla , Elvis The NJ Dog Whisperer, janice wolfe Philantrophist ; Erika Searl with her furkids Ginger and Cubby the event was produced by Petapotty and 1st In-Line with a list of sponsors like Fido Friendly magazine, les pooch, comfy and cozy pet furniture, buddyg’s, happy paws, lunas brat pack and ruff doggie style