{"id":64844,"date":"2025-11-25T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:43:08","slug":"pet-of-the-week-ruru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64844\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet of the Week: Ruru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the animal shelters are overcapacity here in the Coast Bend, so now would be the best time to adopt a pet from your local dog pound. You could help save a precious life from the euthanasia list! <\/p>\n<p>Allow us to introduce Ruru \u2014 he is the KRIS 6 Pet of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Ruru (A349498) is a brown-and-black Black Mouth Cur. He is about 3 years old, weighs 33.7 lbs., is neutered, and has a heartworm test result below the detectable limit.   <\/p>\n<p>Ruru&#8217;s first day at CCACS was Nov. 11, 2025, and the staff have had the opportunity to get to know Ruru more. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruru loves cuddles. Ruru is fearful at first, but after a while, becomes a complete cuddle bug,&#8221; said Matilda Perez, Community Relations Specialist at the City of Corpus Christi Animal Care Services. <\/p>\n<p>He is a smart dude and knows how to walk on a leash. Ruru is dog-friendly and likes to sniff around in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Ruru 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:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/24petconnect.com\/DetailsMain\/CRPC\/A349498__;!!FJkDyvWmnr4!dfP8lodFh0HLmlrW2ekt1B43r3quvW-sn7jdjEtx6kqMXMV26TYyRt8sICUQrXM78_mlskLYZXUTWaBEeD-rqFIIR21IX_W_$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/24Petconnect.com\/DetailsMain\/CRPC\/A349498 [24petconnect.com]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764103388_770_\" alt=\"Pet of the Week Ruru\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CCACS\/KRIS 6 News <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone knows the animal shelters are overcapacity here in the Coast Bend, so now would be the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24101,155,33779,157,156,33780,23264],"class_list":{"0":"post-64844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-animal-shelters","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-animal-control","11":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","12":"tag-corpus-christi-news","13":"tag-corpus-dog-rescue","14":"tag-pet-adoption-corpus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844","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=64844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}