{"id":21109,"date":"2015-09-13T02:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21109"},"modified":"2015-09-13T02:53:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T09:53:32","slug":"dog-friendly-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dog-friendly-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Friendly California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lbdtpez.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dogs are\u00a0taking over California as evidenced by a celebration yesterday in Long Beach called Dogs of Downtown. On Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 dog owners were invited to bring their pets for food tastings, agility training, mobile grooming, photo booths, and a costume contest. Downtown Long Beach is taking the first step in educating the public as to which stores are pet friendly, what restaurants and patios can accommodate the canine crowd, and how to become a social animal, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Doggie Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DEL MAR: Surf Dog Surfathon September 13, 2015 at Dog Beach, animalcenter.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-jose-bark.html\">Bark In The Park<\/a>\u00a0 Sept. 19 &#8211; The largest dog festival in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Doggie Street Festival Sept. 19. Produced by filmmaker Judy Artenstein (<em>Rescue Me<\/em>), the\u00a0event with\u00a065 vendors and thousands of pets &amp; owners seeks to get dogs off the streets through successful adoptions. \u00a0doggiestreetfestival.org<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-surfing-dogs.html\">Surf City Surf Dog Surfing Competition<\/a> Sept. 25-27<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dogs\/california-dachshund-races.html\">Wiener Nationals<\/a> Oct. 3, 2015 at Qualcomm Stadium<\/li>\n<li>CALIFORNIA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/dog-parades.html\">Halloween Dog Parades and Costume Contests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs are\u00a0taking over California as evidenced by a celebration yesterday in Long Beach called Dogs of Downtown. On Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 dog owners were invited to bring their pets for food tastings, agility training, mobile grooming, photo booths, and a costume contest. Downtown Long Beach is taking the first step in educating the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}