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Scratch This | Clear The Shelters gives pets their shot at stardom

Also, if you attend Benny the Cat's birthday party, then you can meet a few more stars and starlets.

Scratch This | Clear The Shelters gives pets their shot at stardom
Enzo spent the better part of a year in a shelter kennel. Clear The Shelters brought him together with Melanie Sabokroo, where he’ll spend the best part of his life. Photo courtesy of Long Beach Animal Care Services.

Not every dog might have its day, but Enzo sure had his. Enzo is a 2-year-old white husky who until a few days ago had been one of the kennel residents with the longest stay — eight months — at Long Beach Animal Care Services. An NBC4 TV appearance gave him the celebrity cachet he needed to go home, which he did the day after airing.

Clear The Shelters, NBCUniversal Local’s nationwide pet adoption and donation campaign, was responsible for Enzo’s good luck.

“NBC/Telemundo has contacted various shelters throughout LA County to participate in short news segments,” said Alma Vera-Lima, superintendent at LBACS. Lucky for Enzo, LBACS was among them.

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