{"id":10787,"date":"2019-09-27T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2019-09-27T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:13:36","slug":"dog-adoption-held-at-county-animal-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10787","title":{"rendered":"Dog Adoption Held at County Animal Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Area residents checking out some the dogs available for adoption. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It could either be called a sad story or one with a happy ending but the hope is that what happened at a deplorable animal rescue place outside the Los Fresnos city limits, doesn\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n

Up to 270 dogs and one cat were seized and taken to the county animal shelter off FM 510 during a Monday, Sept. 9 law enforcement operation led by the Cameron County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Many of the canines looked as squalid as they could be while others appeared to be healthy, but the look on their faces tells a story of despair.<\/p>\n

In a large chain link cage, several small dogs clutched together. In other cages, medium-sized dogs either barked or jumped up and down giving the impression they can go home.<\/p>\n

And home some of them went as scores of people paraded through the shelter\u2019s inside and outside areas in hopes of finding a pet of their choice.<\/p>\n

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Maria Nunez was happy to adopt a dog. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

Many of the dogs kept barking as children, parents and even senior citizens kept walking and looking for a pet to adopt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Chiquita,\u201d Roxanna Vargas said as she held a mixed Chihuahua puppy. \u201cI am going to call her Chiquis.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was the first person to get the OK during the adoption event, held from 4-8 Monday, Sept. 16. A total of 67 dogs were adopted on that day.<\/p>\n

A second adoption fair was held on Wednesday, Sept. 18.<\/p>\n

She said she moved into a new place and will now have Chiquis as her companion.<\/p>\n

Maria Nunez, a senior citizen from San Benito, was another lucky person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my new pet,\u201d she said; leaving the shelter with the help of a walker. \u201cThanks God!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roxanna Vargas and her adopted pet Chiquis. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

The adoption event drew several hundred people that waited outside the shelter gates either standing or sitting on chairs arranged for their comfort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have two Rottweilers,\u201c said Brownsville resident Janie Rivera as she and her two daughters waited patiently outside the gates. \u201cWe would like to have a smaller dog, perhaps a pug or a Dachsund.\u201d<\/p>\n

The adoption took place after county health officials decided to give residents a chance to have a pet and to relieve the shelter of so many dogs<\/p>\n

In addition to the confiscated four-legged critters, the shelter has its share of dogs dropped off by people that don\u2019t want them for one reason or another or picked up by animal control officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN It could either be called a sad story or one with a happy ending but the hope is that what happened at a deplorable animal rescue place outside the Los Fresnos city limits, doesn\u2019t happen again. Up to 270 dogs and one cat were seized and taken to the county animal shelter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}