{"id":258322,"date":"2026-04-20T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258322\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:00:09","slug":"pet-of-the-week-queenie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258322\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet of the Week: Queenie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The weather has been pleasant in the Coastal Bend and now would be the best time to adopt a pet from your local animal shelter. You could also help save a precious life from the euthanasia list! <\/p>\n<p>Let us introduce Queenie \u2014 she is the KRIS 6 Pet of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Queenie is a brown-and-white female American Pit Bull Terrier mix. She is about 5 years old, weighs 35.2 lbs., is spayed, and has been friendly with the staff. <\/p>\n<p>Queenie (A386384) is currently located at the City of Corpus Christi Animal Care Services. She has been there since Feb. 4, 2026, and the staff has had a chance to get to know her more. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Queenie enjoys treats, playing with toys, and running around the play yard. She knows simple commands like &#8216;sit&#8217; and walks on a leash with some pulling,&#8221; said Matilda Perez, Community Relations Specialist at City of Corpus Christi Animal Care Services.<\/p>\n<p>She loves attention and belly rubs from the staff!<\/p>\n<p>Go visit Queenie and all the other available pets Monday through Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. You may find the paw-fect companion for you!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/24petconnect.com\/DetailsMain\/CRPC\/A386384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/24Petconnect.com\/DetailsMain\/CRPC\/A386384 [24petconnect.com]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776715209_78_.png\" alt=\"Pet of the week Queenie\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CCACS\/KRIS 6 News <\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The weather has been pleasant in the Coastal Bend and now would be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-258322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}