{"id":28536,"date":"2025-07-01T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28536\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:00:15","slug":"510-animals-find-families-at-jacksonvilles-2-day-mega-adoption-event-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28536\/","title":{"rendered":"510 animals find families at Jacksonville\u2019s 2-day Mega adoption event \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The free Petco Love Mega adoption event in Jacksonville has wrapped up, and the final numbers are in: 510 dogs and cats said goodbye to the shelters and hello to their new families and homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The 2-day event at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds hosted animals from more than 10 shelters throughout Florida, including Bradford, Levy, Sumter, and Clay County Animal Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Nassau County Animal Services reportedly adopted out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/178sWfUBVa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/178sWfUBVa\/\">89 pets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The event was an especially large success for Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services, which found homes for 183 of its dogs and cats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>READ: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/intakes-are-up-acps-jacksonville-so-are-positive-outcomes\/RUG4J4TN4VBWHO2SEBQPYPKZCI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/intakes-are-up-acps-jacksonville-so-are-positive-outcomes\/RUG4J4TN4VBWHO2SEBQPYPKZCI\/\"><b>Intakes are up at ACPS Jacksonville, but so are positive outcomes<\/b><\/a><\/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=\"nofollow 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\">Take a look at some of the happy new families:<\/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\/07\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/ABQYQHYXN5HTBJVJFDEH7YLZKY.jpg\" width=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Florida MEGA adoption event 2025 More than 500 dogs and cats find forever homes at the Petco Love MEGA adoption event in 2025 <\/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\/07\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/MVINFLUXCVH2LD7BRGGBY4KYSA.jpg\" width=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Florida MEGA adoption event 2025 More than 500 dogs and cats find forever homes at the Petco Love MEGA adoption event in 2025 <\/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\/07\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/FBRMOIMSDJA45FUFUXFZ44EW2Y.jpg\" width=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Florida MEGA adoption event 2025 More than 500 dogs and cats find forever homes at the Petco Love MEGA adoption event in 2025 <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1749847785957574\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1749847785957574\">15 ACPS dogs <\/a>were left from the whole weekend, but there\u2019s still a chance to take them home for free. Since the shelter did not meet its grand goal of 200 adoptions, the next 17 will also be free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">See animals available for adoption at ACPS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.gov\/departments\/neighborhoods\/animal-care-protective-services\/adopt-or-foster\/adoptable-pets\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.gov\/departments\/neighborhoods\/animal-care-protective-services\/adopt-or-foster\/adoptable-pets\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><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=\"nofollow 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 The free Petco Love Mega adoption event in Jacksonville has wrapped up, and the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[24536,7320,4652,5229,4653,7323,15015,4654,8314,3188,723,7324,7310,7327,20575,7834,7325,24537,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-28536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-acps","9":"tag-action-news-jax","10":"tag-adoption","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-cats","13":"tag-cbs47","14":"tag-clay-county","15":"tag-dogs","16":"tag-duval-county","17":"tag-fl","18":"tag-florida","19":"tag-fox30","20":"tag-jacksonville","21":"tag-jacksonville-fl","22":"tag-jacksonville-humane-society","23":"tag-nassau-county","24":"tag-northeast-florida","25":"tag-pet-adoptions","26":"tag-southeast-georgia","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa","33":"tag-wfox","34":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536","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=28536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}