JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville\u2019s Animal Care and Protective Services is asking the public to foster or adopt pets to help ease severe shelter overcrowding. Right now, the shelter is housing 433 dogs in 264 kennels.<\/p>\n
Additional animals are expected to arrive this week following two large impound cases.<\/p>\n
To encourage adoptions and relieve facility strain, all adoption fees are currently waived. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Potential adopters can use JaxPawFinder<\/a>, the city\u2019s AI-powered app, to match with animals based on age, size, personality and energy level prior to visiting. <\/p>\n The shelter is located at 2020 Forest Street in Jacksonville and is open daily from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Animal Care and Protective Services Chief Michael Bricker emphasized the role of community support during periods of high shelter occupancy. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cEven brief foster breaks from the shelter are invaluable for our pets, since we learn so much about them and they have a chance to decompress in a home with a family,\u201d Bricker said. \u201cEvery kennel we free up by sending a pet to foster or to a loving home means we can help another animal in need. Being this full is hard on both the dogs and the staff caring for them and the community stepping up to help will make a huge difference. Lifesaving requires everyone in a community and everyone can make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the past year, ACPS cared for nearly 30% more animals while increasing total adoptions by 44.5%, rising from 2,890 to 4,176 pets. <\/p>\n Dog intake climbed 29%, dog adoptions increased nearly 50% and owner reunions jumped 50.2%. <\/p>\n Euthanasia rates for dogs fell 15.5%, bringing the shelter\u2019s dog save rate to 88.41%.<\/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 Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville\u2019s Animal Care and Protective Services is asking the public to foster or adopt pets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,125846,28,348,116,351,118,117,152008,349,152010,152009,350,152011,346,345],"class_list":["post-377902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-dog-adoption","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonvilles-animal-care-and-protective-services","tag-northeast-florida","tag-pet-fostering","tag-shelter-overcrowding","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-waived-adoption-fees","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377902","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=377902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}