{"id":146193,"date":"2026-02-06T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146193\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:09:09","slug":"broward-county-animal-care-makes-urgent-call-to-help-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146193\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward County Animal Care makes urgent call to help dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 6, 2026 at 10:51 AM<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Valiente&#8217; is up for adoption in Fort Lauderdale  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/Animal\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/Animal\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Broward County Animal Care<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale is asking the public to help save the lives of several dogs before Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Doug Brightwell, the director of the BCAC, said even a short-term foster can make a difference since the kennel environment is taking a toll on the dogs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brightline said \u201cValiente\u201d is about 2 years old, came in as a stray from Pembroke Pines, and is good with other dogs and people outside the kennel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe is very stressed and anxious in the kennel, and he gets pretty cage aggressive at the door, so he poses some stress to himself and the folks trying to come in to see him, so we really want to get him out into a foster or into an adopted home,\u201d Brightwell said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cValiente\u201d loves belly rubs, and he is very treat-motivated, which means he redirects and corrects very easily, Brightwell said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe is just a really nice dog, but this environment is just really very stressful and very hard on him,\u201d Brightwell said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For more information on how to help these dogs leave the kennels at 2400 SW 42nd St., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/Animal\/Pages\/adoptions.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/Animal\/Pages\/adoptions.aspx\">visit this page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 6, 2026 at 10:51 AM &#8216;Valiente&#8217; is up for adoption in Fort Lauderdale FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-146193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}