{"id":126037,"date":"2026-02-28T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126037\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:14:27","slug":"allentown-animal-care-opens-new-facility-with-expanded-services-for-pets-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126037\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Animal Care opens new facility with expanded services for pets | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Animal Care held their ribbon cutting and open house on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They opened their new facility on Walbert Avenue, and went through a bit of a name change!<\/p>\n<p>They previously operated under Allentown Animal Clinic, but workers say they changed it to &#8220;care&#8221; to show they care about you and your pets.<\/p>\n<p>A new expanded facility will allowed the center to provide better care for animals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do ultrasounds on site, which is an integral part of working with a lot of sick animals. We do surgery of site too, and we are continuing to care for all pets: furred, feathered and scaly,&#8221; said Dr. Elena Dawickij, lead veterinarian of Allentown Animal Care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A pet caricaturist and a stuffed animal adoption program where part of the open house festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Vets say they look forward to continuing to care for pets around the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Animal Care held their ribbon cutting and open house on Saturday.\u00a0 They opened their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,58955,121,120,6561,58957,58956,157,28,58954],"class_list":["post-126037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-animal-clinic","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-culture-of-allentown","tag-elena-dawickij","tag-lead-veterinarian","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-wxw-ultimate-heavyweight-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126037","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=126037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}