{"id":8497,"date":"2025-10-17T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:44:10","slug":"hillsborough-county-pet-shelter-at-600-capacity-for-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8497\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County pet shelter at 600% capacity for cats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; The Hillsborough County\u2019s Pet Resource Center is currently over 600 percent over capacity for cats.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/prc-ping.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The shelter has never housed so many cats or kittens at one time. \u00a0PRC is an open-admission shelter, meaning it takes in stray animals regardless of age, breed, or size.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Shelter officials say there is no one reason for this surge in numbers. They have had several hoarding cases recently, one last month when they rescued 60 cats from a home.\u00a0Residents continue to bring in strays at a high rate, even though this is when the cat population usually dwindles.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/prc-cat-big-foot.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PRC is working with rescues and fosters but are urging residents to come to the shelter and give a kitten or cat a new home.\u00a0 They also have a \u2018Working Cats&#8221; program for cats unlikely to adapt to an indoor life but would make great outdoor mousers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/prc-outdoor-cats.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Pet Resource Center is located at 440 N. Falkenburg Rd. and is open for adoptions from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Residents can view hundreds of adoptable pets <a href=\"https:\/\/HCFL.gov\/Adopt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the\u00a0Hillsborough County\u2019s Pet Resource Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; The Hillsborough County\u2019s Pet Resource Center is currently over 600 percent over capacity for cats.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,8713,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-8497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-hillsborough","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pets-animals","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","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=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}