{"id":435340,"date":"2026-10-22T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435340\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:04:11","slug":"broward-animal-shelter-over-capacity-urgent-rescue-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435340\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward Animal Shelter Over Capacity, Urgent Rescue Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Fort Lauderdale, FL) &#8211; The Broward County animal shelter is full and is asking residents to help pets find forever homes.  <\/p>\n<p>Director of Broward County Animal Care, Doug Brightwell, says adoption fees have been waived but the standard pet registration fee still applies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur shelter needs the community\u2019s help now,\u201d said Brightwell, \u201cIf you are ready to welcome a pet into your family, please consider adopting. You will give that animal a home and help us make room for another pet who needs care.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Residents can view available cats and dogs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/Animal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broward.org\/Animal<\/a> or visit the shelter to meet your future pet in person.<\/p>\n<p>Animal care spokeswoman Jodie Robinson says overcrowding affects  quality of life for dogs and cats.<\/p>\n<p>Residents who cannot adopt can help by sharing adoptable pets and this urgent appeal with friends, family and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is asking the community to &#8220;step in, step up and save a life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Fort Lauderdale, FL) &#8211; The Broward County animal shelter is full and is asking residents to help pets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4271,15823,59392,86276,170376,249,251,250,2965,170377],"class_list":["post-435340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-animal-shelter","tag-broward","tag-broward-county-animal-care","tag-capacity","tag-doug-brightwell","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-pets","tag-rescue-plea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435340","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=435340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}