{"id":372167,"date":"2026-07-14T05:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:47:10","slug":"houstons-animal-shelter-crisis-why-so-many-pets-need-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372167\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s Animal Shelter Crisis: Why So Many Pets Need Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Houston&#8217;s animal shelters are overwhelmed, and the problem is growing. IFU photographer Daniel Carrasco takes us inside BARC to explore the pet overpopulation crisis affecting neighborhoods across Houston. Shelter leaders explain what&#8217;s driving the surge in abandoned animals, why adoptions aren&#8217;t keeping pace, and what the community can do to help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0July 13, 2026 11:51pm CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s animal shelters are overwhelmed, and the problem is growing. IFU photographer Daniel Carrasco takes us inside BARC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-372167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372167","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=372167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}