{"id":193032,"date":"2026-02-25T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193032\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:06:35","slug":"world-spay-day-at-kern-county-animal-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193032\/","title":{"rendered":"World Spay Day at Kern County Animal Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Tuesday is World Spay Day and one local shelter is doing its part to reduce overpopulation in our community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kern County Animal Services is hosting an event at the shelter, located at 3951 Fruitvale Ave. KCAS will be fixing pets for just $20, and if you reside within zip codes 93305, 93306, 93307, and 93308, services are free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The global campaign was founded in 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nick Cullen, director of Kern County Animal Services, joined 17 News at Noon to discuss tomorrow\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe\u2019re doing what we are usually doing, and that is fixing as many animals as we can,\u201d Cullen said. \u201cWe have a goal of 200 spay and neuters tomorrow. We have 223 appointments already lined up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cullen said the day serves as nationwide acknowledgement of the need for spay and neutering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the video in the player above for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Tuesday is World Spay Day and one local shelter is doing its part to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,328,90384,77205],"class_list":["post-193032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kget","tag-nick-cullen","tag-world-spay-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}