{"id":163435,"date":"2025-08-21T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163435\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:23:20","slug":"jacksonville-humane-society-offers-free-adoptions-for-senior-citizens-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163435\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Humane Society offers free adoptions for Senior Citizens Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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 jibCgM 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 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">All adoptable pets are microchipped, spayed or neutered, and vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb 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 jsuuLb 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<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/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-163435","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\/115066031774600081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163435","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=163435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163435\/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=163435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}