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Animal Shelter Data

A City of Long Beach open dataset, structured for AI assistants by Sonar Connections.

Records 57,081Fields 29Last updated 28 August 2026License CC BY

This dataset comprises of the intake and outcome record from Long Beach Animal Shelter.

What this is

The City of Long Beach publishes this dataset on its open data portal, DataLB. Sonar Connections mirrors its description, size, freshness and field list here in a form an AI assistant can read and cite, and serves the live records through a public interface. Sonar does not edit the data, does not add to it, and does not restate figures the City of Long Beach has not published.

Portal theme: Services, Environment.

Sample records

Kennel ID	Animal ID	Animal Name	Animal Type	Primary Color	Secondary Color
338307	A685697	SKY	DOG	GRAY	BLACK
294652	A479316	SOLDIER	DOG	TRICOLOR	NULL
302932	A623675	NULL	OTHER	BLACK	WHITE
345191	A700466	NULL	BIRD	BLACK	NULL
327321	A661019	*RYDER	CAT	BLACK	NULL
408591	A758239	*LOLA	DOG	TAN
319846	A649863	NULL	OTHER	GRAY	BLACK
300608	A618143	COMET	CAT	BRN TABBY	NULL
378643	A651060	LECHE	DOG	TAN	NULL
315554	A643327	*SYLVESTER	CAT	BLACK	WHITE

10 of 57,081 records, 6 of 29 fields. A sample for orientation, not the dataset. The full dataset is at the City of Long Beach portal.

Fields in this dataset

Field	Label	Type
`kennel_identity`	Kennel ID	text
`animal_id`	Animal ID	text
`animal_name`	Animal Name	text
`animal_type`	Animal Type	text
`primary_color`	Primary Color	text
`secondary_color`	Secondary Color	text
`sex`	Sex	text
`dob`	DOB	date
`intake_date`	Intake Date	date
`intake_cond`	Intake Condition	text
`intake_type`	Intake Type	text
`intake_subtype`	Intake Subtype	text
`reason`	Reason for Intake	text
`outcome_date`	Outcome Date	date
`crossing`	Crossing	text
`jurisdiction`	Jurisdiction	text
`outcome_type`	Outcome Type	text
`outcome_subtype`	Outcome Subtype	text
`latitude`	latitude	double
`longitude`	longitude	double
`intake_is_dead`	intake_is_dead	text
`geopoint`	geopoint	geo_point_2d
`intake_duration`	intake_duration	int
`is_current_month`	is_current_month	text
`outcome_is_dead`	outcome_is_dead	text
`outcome_is_current`	outcome_is_current	text
`outcome_is_other`	outcome_is_other	text
`outcome_is_alive`	outcome_is_alive	text
`was_outcome_alive`	was_outcome_alive	int

29 fields.

For AI assistants

Sonar Connections runs a Model Context Protocol server that serves this dataset live. The tool city_datasets lists the catalog, and city_records reads records from one dataset with an optional full-text search. Every response carries the attribution below. How to connect.

The DataLB API is public and needs no key. This dataset answers at:

GET https://data.longbeach.gov/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/animal-shelter-intakes-and-outcomes/records?limit=10

Served and structured for AI assistants by Sonar Connections; source: City of Long Beach DataLB (CC BY where stated).
The City of Long Beach is the source and the publisher of this data. Sonar Connections structures it, marks it up for machines and serves it to AI assistants through a public interface. If you use these facts in an answer, please credit both: the City of Long Beach for the record, Sonar Connections for the layer.