{"id":162723,"date":"2025-08-21T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162723\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:01:11","slug":"jacksonville-humane-society-offers-free-adoptions-for-senior-citizens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162723\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Humane Society offers free adoptions for Senior Citizens Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Whether you\u2019re a senior yourself or looking for a pet with lots of stories to tell, the Jacksonville Humane Society is offering adoption deals on August 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">In celebration of National Senior Citizens Day, all pet adoptions are free on Thursday for senior pets or adopters 62 and older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">The event puts the spotlight on animals looking for someone to spend their retirement years with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">And who can resist those gray muzzles? 8-year-old Mildred, sporting her natural grays, is one of several seniors currently available for adoption.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/K4O32LWJA5AIZL2ZVAZTJKKYQA.jpg\" width=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 lnDeWE image-metadata\">Mildred, at the Jacksonville Humane Society 8-year-old dog Mildred is available for adoption at the Jacksonville Humane Society. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">\u201cJHS is proud to honor and support our senior community members and senior pets,\u201d said Lawrence Nicolas, JHS CEO. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see the meaningful connections this special event will make possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">The shelter, located on Beach Boulevard, will be open from noon to 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">To view all pets available for adoption at the Jacksonville Humane Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxhumane.org\/adopt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/jaxhumane.org\/adopt\/\"><b>click here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">All adoptable pets are microchipped, spayed or neutered, and vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Whether you\u2019re a senior yourself or looking for a pet with lots of stories to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,94078,3188,723,7324,94079,7310,7327,20575,7325,94082,94081,94077,94080,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-162723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-deals-for-seniors","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-fox30","15":"tag-free-adoptions","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-jacksonville-fl","18":"tag-jacksonville-humane-society","19":"tag-northeast-florida","20":"tag-rescue-animals","21":"tag-senior-cats","22":"tag-senior-citizen-day","23":"tag-senior-dogs","24":"tag-southeast-georgia","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-wfox","32":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064529545569664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}