{"id":395543,"date":"2026-09-10T05:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395543\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T05:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:36:38","slug":"jacksonville-shelters-seek-foster-homes-amid-critical-overcrowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395543\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville shelters seek foster homes amid critical overcrowding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville Animal Services urges residents to help alleviate an overcrowding crisis by fostering pets, highlighting that each foster home opened can save a life.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ark. \u2014 With local shelters packed far beyond their limits, Jacksonville Animal Services (JAS) is calling on residents to open their doors to foster pets and prevent an overcrowding emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A social media post by JAS urged the community of the need for foster homes &#8220;now more than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The service said its shelters are beyond capacity and out of space to take in animals safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single foster home opened quite literally saves a life,&#8221; JAS said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>JAS said that fostering can be for as long as needed, from days to weeks, or longer. Support and supplies will also be provided to help out fosters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For anyone interested in fostering, JAS asks that you message them directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Animal Services urges residents to help alleviate an overcrowding crisis by fostering pets, highlighting that each foster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-395543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395543","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=395543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}