{"id":290098,"date":"2026-05-30T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290098\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:34:09","slug":"broward-animal-shelter-hits-capacity-waives-adoption-fees-under-emergency-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290098\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward animal shelter hits capacity, waives adoption fees under emergency campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 30, 2026 at 9:17 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4B2L7ABDJ5BMRB4DHELVN7CBJI.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Broward County Animal Care says its emergency response campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18sv3QxJuG\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18sv3QxJuG\/\">Code Home<\/a>, remains in effect as the shelter continues operating beyond its dog kennel capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials on Saturday said the shelter currently has more dogs in its care than available kennels and is urging the public to help by adopting, fostering, or assisting with reunification of lost pets. Adoption fees are currently being waived, though pet registration fees still apply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCode Home remains active because every kennel and every act of support matters,\u201d said Animal Care Director Doug Brightwell. He said the agency, as an open-admission shelter, continues to provide critical services while managing the overflow, including cruelty and neglect investigations, dangerous dog cases, and public safety responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Animal Care officials are encouraging residents to adopt pets to create space, foster animals to provide temporary relief, and check for lost pets to help reunite them with their owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More information and a list of available animals can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/Broward.org\/Animal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/Broward.org\/Animal\">Broward.org\/Animal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 30, 2026 at 9:17 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Broward County Animal Care says its emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-290098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290098","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=290098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}