{"id":304752,"date":"2026-05-07T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:37:48","slug":"meet-mercedes-our-kern-county-animal-services-pet-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304752\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Mercedes! Our Kern County Animal Services Pet of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Mercedes is our Pet of the Week from Kern County Animal Services.<\/p>\n<p>She is around 4 or 5 years old and shelter staff say she does well with other dogs.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the shelter is holding their &#8220;Just One Dog&#8221; event aimed at getting all the pets they have adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Adoption fees will be waived during the event, happening May 9 at the shelter from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kern County Animal Services &quot;Just One Dog&quot; (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e60d5c0c-6aa7-452a-bc6b-b18625009add-onedog.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kern County Animal Services &#8220;Just One Dog&#8221; (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>If you would like adopt Mercedes or any of the pets available at KCAS visit 3951 Fruitvale Avenue or call (661) 868-710.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerncountyanimalservices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kerncountyanimalservices.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Mercedes is our Pet of the Week from Kern County Animal Services. She is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-304752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304752","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=304752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}