{"id":317142,"date":"2026-06-23T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317142\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:58:12","slug":"humane-society-closes-kennels-due-to-extreme-heat-in-north-central-florida-seeks-dog-fosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317142\/","title":{"rendered":"Humane Society closes kennels due to extreme heat in North Central Florida, seeks dog fosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Leaders with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanesocietyncfl.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.humanesocietyncfl.org\/\">Humane Society of North Central Florida<\/a> are asking people to help foster dogs after closing kennels due to extreme heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the facility\u2019s primary dog kennel area, which normally houses more than 30 dogs, has been closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The dogs were relocated to climate-controlled spaces within the shelter; however, the situation has reduced the human society\u2019s capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trending: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/06\/23\/cat-kitten-adoptions-paused-alachua-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cat and kitten adoptions paused in Alachua County Animal Shelter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They say every dog that goes into a foster home opens up valuable kennel space. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhile all of our dogs are safe, this situation creates a serious capacity challenge,\u201d said Franziska Raeber, Director of Development at HSNCF. \u201cWe depend on our foster families now more than ever to help us care for animals through the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more about fostering an animal from the Humane Society of North Central Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanesocietyncfl.org\/foster\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.humanesocietyncfl.org\/foster\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trending: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/06\/23\/west-nile-virus-infection-reported-alachua-county-health-department-confirms\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Nile virus infection reported in Alachua County, health department confirms<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Leaders with the Humane Society of North Central Florida are asking people to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4271,16230,1550,79026,28,30,29,131797,15740,131795,105677,131796],"class_list":["post-317142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-animal-shelter","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-extreme-heat","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fosters","tag-humane-society","tag-humane-society-of-ncfl","tag-humane-society-of-north-central-florida","tag-kennel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317142","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=317142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}