San Antonio\u2019s public animal shelter is over capacity, so the city is waiving fees for people who choose to adopt a pup this weekend.<\/p>\n
Animal Care Services said it\u2019s housing more than 550 animals in its kennels because of an increase in calls after last week\u2019s flooding and the shelter\u2019s typical summer surge.<\/p>\n
Through Sunday, anyone who adopts an animal won\u2019t be charged an adoption fee. The usual adoption fees are $86 for dogs and $34 for cats.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also for adoptions,\u00a0ACS staff will spay or neuter the animal, give them proper vaccinations and insert a microchip.<\/p>\n
ACS is also looking for people to foster animals temporarily<\/a> to free up space in the city kennels. The department gives people who agree to foster an animal all necessary supplies.<\/p>\n As of Friday afternoon, fifty dogs were at risk of being euthanized because there was no room for them in the kennels, according to Animal Care Services.<\/p>\n ACS updates its online list<\/a> of animals at-risk of being euthanized every 15 minutes. Lists of other pets in urgent need of a home, like those with medical conditions or orphan puppies and kittens, are also available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio\u2019s public animal shelter is over capacity, so the city is waiving fees for people who choose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-385534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","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\/385534","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=385534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}