{"id":200172,"date":"2026-05-22T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:15:43","slug":"spca-serving-erie-county-offering-free-adoptions-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200172\/","title":{"rendered":"SPCA Serving Erie County offering free adoptions for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The SPCA Serving Erie County is waiving adoption fees on most animals through the rest of May for veterans and individuals on active duty or reserves.<\/p>\n<p>According to the SPCA, Vets &amp; Pets begins Saturday, May 23 through Saturday, May 30. Adoption hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Potential adoptions need to be started at least an hour before closing.<\/p>\n<p>Military ID or DD214 will need to be presented at the time of adoption. If a person is serving outside of New York State, their spouse can adopt if a military spouse identification card is presented. Adopters can use the waived adoption fee promotion for two animals.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to see photos of adoptable animals, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The SPCA Serving Erie County is waiving adoption fees on most animals through the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-200172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200172","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=200172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}