{"id":47369,"date":"2025-11-13T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47369\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:52:07","slug":"houston-shelter-urging-families-to-open-their-hearts-to-senior-pets-ahead-of-upcoming-adoption-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47369\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston shelter urging families to open their hearts to senior pets ahead of upcoming adoption event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Shelters all over the Houston area have great older dogs and cats in need of forever homes.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston shelter urging senior pet adoptions <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Take Blossom and Murdoch, for example. Both have had difficult challenges over the years, but will make any home a great addition to the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Both can be found at Best Friends Animal Shelter Houston branch.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Older pets are usually house-trained, used to living in homes, and can easily become part of your routine, according to Sophia Proler, South Central Regional Director for Houston&#8217;s Best Friends Animal Society.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The non-profit is holding an adoption event this coming Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bestfriends.org\/houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here for more information.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with Sophia Proler, South Central Regional Director for Houston&#8217;s Best Friends Animal Society.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Shelters all over the Houston area have great older dogs and cats in need of forever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,5163,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-47369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pets-animals","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47369","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=47369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}