{"id":258239,"date":"2026-08-03T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:07:07","slug":"paws-in-the-park-brings-dog-lovers-together-for-adoptions-at-mcdade-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258239\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Paws in the Park&#8217; brings dog lovers together for adoptions at McDade Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin Pond Animal Shelter&#8217;s &#8220;Paws in the Park&#8221; event connected animal lovers with adoptable dogs, raising funds to support animal rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>, Griffin Pond Animal Shelter hosted &#8216;Paws in the Park&#8217;, drawing animal lovers to McDade Park in an effort to help animals find their forever homes.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors could meet adoptable dogs while enjoying food trucks, live music, and craft vendors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It always warms our heart a great deal to have that community support because sometimes we feel like we&#8217;re alone on an island and taking in stray dogs or dogs that need serious medical care. So yeah, it&#8217;s really great. I mean, some of these people are breeding dogs that were adopted over a year ago or even longer, so that&#8217;s always good to see too,&#8221; said Sherry Crolly, \u00a0from Griffin Pond Animal Shelter.<\/p>\n<p>All the money raised benefits Griffin Pond Animal Shelter near Clarks Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griffin Pond Animal Shelter&#8217;s &#8220;Paws in the Park&#8221; event connected animal lovers with adoptable dogs, raising funds to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-258239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258239","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=258239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}