{"id":355930,"date":"2026-06-11T07:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355930\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:03:41","slug":"city-shelter-to-offer-free-dog-tags-microchips-through-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355930\/","title":{"rendered":"City shelter to offer free dog tags, microchips through June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Animal Care Center will be offering free dog tags and microchips throughout the month of June for Bakersfield city residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The center said that pet owners do not have to be adopting a dog to be eligible for a free tag or microchip. They said dogs do not have to be previously adopted from the shelter to be eligible, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents who want a dog tag or to microchip their pet can go to the shelter during business hours with contact information and their dog\u2019s name to be etched into the dog tag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event comes as the shelter is gearing up for one of their busiest days of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shelter is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Animal Care Center said that July 5 is typically the highest day of intakes for the city shelter, along with the week and weekend of the Fourth of July.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" 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 The Bakersfield Animal Care Center will be offering free dog tags and microchips throughout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[82518,151,145017,145019,153,152,2899,145018],"class_list":["post-355930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-animal-care-center","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-animal-care-center","tag-bakersfield-city-residents","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-dog","tag-free-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355930","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=355930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}