{"id":15704,"date":"2025-10-22T14:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15704\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:18:06","slug":"cape-coral-animal-shelter-plans-8m-expansion-to-triple-size-and-improve-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15704\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Animal Shelter Plans $8M Expansion to Triple Size and Improve Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major growth plan will transform the Cape Coral Animal Shelter with a new 19,000-square-foot building. The $8 million project starts in January 2026. Workers will need about a year to finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>Liz McCauley runs the shelter. She spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/human-interest\/2025-10-19\/cape-coral-shelter-expansion-looks-to-allow-continued-help-for-areas-unhoused-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WGCU<\/a> about turning pets away each day due to space limits. The new space will add 49 more kennels for dogs, going from 12 to 61.<\/p>\n<p>The current building will become a veterinary and clinic, with the new space housing boarding and shelter spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major growth plan will transform the Cape Coral Animal Shelter with a new 19,000-square-foot building. The $8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4271,209,211,210],"class_list":["post-15704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-animal-shelter","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704","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=15704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}