{"id":2420,"date":"2025-01-31T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2025-01-24T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:09:27","slug":"ways-to-fix-our-animal-shelter-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/ways-to-fix-our-animal-shelter-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to Fix Our Animal Shelter Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal shelters across the nation are facing dangerous overcrowding, but relatively new shelter innovation programs are helping solve the problem.\u00a0 The programs include pet food pantries, free and low-cost veterinary care, spay\/neuter programs, help with pet deposits and landlord disputes, behavior counseling, and even assistance with self-rehoming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A More Humane Future for Shelter Animals<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/health-happiness\/2024\/12\/16\/california-animal-shelter-overcrowding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/health-happiness\/2024\/12\/16\/california-animal-shelter-overcrowding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781250858436\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal shelters across the nation are facing dangerous overcrowding, but relatively new shelter innovation programs are helping solve the problem.\u00a0 The programs include pet food pantries, free and low-cost veterinary care, spay\/neuter programs, help with pet deposits and landlord disputes, behavior counseling, and even assistance with self-rehoming. A More Humane Future for Shelter Animals https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/health-happiness\/2024\/12\/16\/california-animal-shelter-overcrowding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/ways-to-fix-our-animal-shelter-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ways to Fix Our Animal Shelter Problem&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}