{"id":120388,"date":"2026-02-22T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:28:07","slug":"pets-of-the-week-sponsored-by-dr-paws-february-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120388\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets of the Week, sponsored by Dr. PAWS, February 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aries and Butterscotch are available to adopt from Griffin Pond Animal Shelter. To apply to adopt Aries, Butterscotch or other pets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffinpondanimalshelter.com\/adopt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">griffinpondanimalshelter.com\/adopt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Nine-month-old Aries is good-natured and previously lived with other cats. (COURTESY OF GRIFFIN POND ANIMAL SHELTER)\" width=\"1512\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-POW-0222-2-rotated-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1557960\" \/>Nine-month-old Aries is good-natured and previously lived with other cats. (COURTESY OF GRIFFIN POND ANIMAL SHELTER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Butterscotch came to Griffin Pond emaciated. She weighs only 36 pounds and is estimated to be a year old. She's sweet and has tested well with other dogs. (COURTESY OF GRIFFIN POND ANIMAL SHELTER)\" width=\"999\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-POW-0222.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1557961\" \/>Butterscotch came to Griffin Pond emaciated. She weighs only 36 pounds and is estimated to be a year old. She\u2019s sweet and has tested well with other dogs. (COURTESY OF GRIFFIN POND ANIMAL SHELTER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aries and Butterscotch are available to adopt from Griffin Pond Animal Shelter. To apply to adopt Aries, Butterscotch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,3138,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-120388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pets-and-animals","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}