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Animal Care & Protective Services (ACPS) rescued two puppies after neighbors reported three dogs had been left alone in a home for nearly two weeks.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n According to ACPS, neighbors said the family had gone out of town, and no one had been seen checking on the dogs for about 13 days.<\/p>\n Officers later obtained legal permission to enter the home. Inside, officers described conditions filled with clutter, trash, urine, and feces.<\/p>\n WATCH: ACPS finds three dogs abandoned inside a Jacksonville home<\/a><\/p>\n The home also had no power, creating dangerous conditions for the animals.<\/p>\n One of the dogs, a 2-year-old named Aurum, was severely emaciated and unable to stand.<\/p>\n Officers rushed him to a veterinary clinic, where he was later euthanized due to his condition.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Two 6-month-old puppies, Bullion and Nugget, survived and are now in the care of a rescue group.<\/p>\n ACPS is urging residents to report suspected abandoned animals so officers can investigate.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animal Care & Protective Services (ACPS) rescued two puppies after neighbors reported three dogs had been left alone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18751,26191,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-192471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-acps","tag-animal-care-protective-services","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192471","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=192471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}