{"id":274898,"date":"2026-08-29T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274898\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:10:07","slug":"waived-fees-for-cats-dogs-and-other-pets-at-reading-shelter-event-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274898\/","title":{"rendered":"Waived fees for cats, dogs, and other pets at Reading shelter event | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; August may be winding down, but did you know it&#8217;s &#8220;Clear the Shelter&#8221; month?<\/p>\n<p>Many shelters are holding events this weekend to help get their furry friends adopted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Center for Animal Life-Saving hosted theirs on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All adoption fees were waived for cats, dogs, and critters six months and older.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of animals that always want our help and always need our help, and that adoption events like this are always helping, of course, animals into great homes,&#8221; Sydney Zeeger, client care representative at the center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shelter workers say it&#8217;s all about getting them into good homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; August may be winding down, but did you know it&#8217;s &#8220;Clear the Shelter&#8221; month? Many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-274898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274898","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=274898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}