140 pets in Jacksonville are now set up for success following a community event at Animal Care and Protective Services.<\/p>\n
Sunday morning, the city shelter invited owners for free pet vaccines, microchips, food, supplies and basic vet exams. The first walk-in patient of the event reportedly lined up at 4 a.m. for a spot.<\/p>\n
The clinic was aimed at owners living in three Jacksonville zip codes identified as having the highest need.<\/p>\n
“32204, 32208, 32209: those are our highest intakes that we see. But of course, there are other communities in the city that still have a need,” one event worker told First Coast News.<\/p>\n
Stray or at-large pets made up nearly 65% of ACPS’ 7,900 intakes over the last 12 months, according to shelter reporting.<\/a> The next most common reason for intake is the animal being surrendered by their owners.<\/p>\n By providing preventative exams and vaccines, pets may avoid illnesses that could severely strain owners in the future. Microchipping also helps reunite owners and their lost pets, reducing shelter intakes.<\/p>\n “We’re excited to be able to provide much-needed resources to help families keep their pets healthy and happy\u2014and in loving homes where they belong,” ACPS wrote on social media. “THANK YOU everyone\u2014can\u2019t wait until next time!”<\/p>\n The vaccines were donated by Petco Love as part of its Vaccinated and Loved initiative. In February, the nonprofit held an event\u00a0<\/a>at the Jacksonville Humane Society where nearly 500 pets from across Northeast Florida were vaccinated and microchipped.<\/p>\n Targeted care for in-need communities across Jacksonville is also underway at EveryPet. The low-cost clinic on Norwood Avenue provides free spay and neuter surgeries and vaccines by appointment for dogs in certain zip codes through the Operation Big Fix program.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"140 pets in Jacksonville are now set up for success following a community event at Animal Care and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18751,26073,28387,116,118,117,93054],"class_list":["post-201800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-acps","tag-animal-care-and-protective-services","tag-first-coast-news","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-pet-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201800","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=201800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}