{"id":310019,"date":"2026-05-27T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:32:11","slug":"shelter-turned-him-away-now-4-puppies-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310019\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter turned him away \u2014 now 4 puppies are dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A 76-year-old San Antonio man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he killed four puppies at his home \u2014 but his family says he tried to get help first. According to a relative, Raul Canales Jr. called Animal Care Services, but was told the shelter was full and to call back after Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>Katrina Webber has been digging into both sides of this story \u2014 from what police found at the home on Cavalier Avenue, to why the family is calling this a &#8220;cry for help ignored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#SanAntonio<br \/>\n#AnimalCruelty<br \/>\n#AnimalShelter<br \/>\n#DogsOfTikTok<br \/>\n#JusticeForAnimals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A 76-year-old San Antonio man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he killed four puppies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31199,7213,10123,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-310019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-acs","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-shelter","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310019","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=310019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}