{"id":208900,"date":"2026-03-07T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208900\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:10:20","slug":"pet-of-the-week-benji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208900\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet of the Week: Benji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Meet this week\u2019s Pet of the Week, Benji!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Benji is a calm 9-month-old pup, according to Brian McLaughlin with the Bakersfield SPCA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Benji came to the shelter on Jan. 22 as a stray. He is looking for a forever home to be a lap dog in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you\u2019re interested in adopting our Pet of the Week, you can call the SPCA at 661-323-8353 or go to their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bakersfieldspca.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">website<\/a>.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 Meet this week\u2019s Pet of the Week, Benji! Benji is a calm 9-month-old pup,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,21018,69998,328,6081],"class_list":["post-208900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-spca","tag-brian-mclaughlin","tag-kget","tag-pet-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208900","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=208900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}