{"id":27715,"date":"2025-10-31T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27715\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:50:09","slug":"the-grinch-stopped-by-dogs-inc-on-his-quest-to-find-the-next-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27715\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grinch Stopped by Dogs Inc on His Quest to Find the Next Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tArts &amp; Culture<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleInfo\">SRQ DAILY FRIDAY WEEKEND EDITION<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleInfo\">FRIDAY OCT 31, 2025 |<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"feature_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251030100002448.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption caption2\">Pictured: The Grinch and his 8-week-old, black male puppy companion. Provided photo.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Grinch visited Dogs Inc to find the next pup to play his canine co-star, Max, when he visits the Van Wezel the weekend of November 14-16. During today\u2019s auditions, The Grinch met four of our cutest puppies, seeing who had the spunk and confidence to play Max and discovering which pup loves that he\u2019s \u201cas cuddly as a cactus.\u201d Each puppy showed off their personality and proved they\u2019re not afraid of a green creature with a heart two sizes too small. The Grinch ended up choosing an 8-week-old, black male puppy to be his next canine companion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"postscript\">Pictured: The Grinch and his 8-week-old, black male puppy companion. Provided photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanwezel.org\/events\/detail\/grinch?utm_campaign=230158_Musical+Event&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_term=dr%20seuss%20how%20the%20grinch%20stole%20christmas&amp;utm_content=5604990-e1-ng-mp-c22982370179-g187637966809-a772575741359-uEAIaIQobCh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">To learn more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arts &amp; Culture SRQ DAILY FRIDAY WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY OCT 31, 2025 | Pictured: The Grinch and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-27715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27715","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=27715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}