JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Lines were out the door at the City of Jacksonville\u2019s Animal Care and Protective Services (ACPS) on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Dozens of people showed up the night before and camped outside to adopt one of 19 available dachshund puppies.<\/p>\n
\u201cNine o\u2019clock last night, we showed up,\u201d Ashlyn Purvis told Action News Jax. \u201cWe were gonna come at like 3 a.m., but we kept watching Facebook, the messages, and we were like, we have to leave now.\u201d<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for the right time and to be able to rescue one, and also it\u2019s sort of close to us, was a good opportunity,\u201d added Deanna Sipsip.<\/p>\n The adoption craze came after Action News Jax told viewers last week that a local Tik-Toker went viral with videos of the dogs.<\/p>\n Shelter director Michael Bricker said a local breeder was overwhelmed with the pups after a death in the family. The community response that followed was overwhelming.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI think with the TikToks that Wubbs did, Bethany, I think over four million people saw these dogs,\u201d Bricker explained. \u201cWe had people from all over the country reaching out, saying they were gonna drive to get one of them. It was so cool. Loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, those 19 pups are safe and headed to their forever homes.<\/p>\n \u201cMy grandma, she was a vet tech for about 30 to 40 years. She believed you adopt, don\u2019t shop. Try to rescue anything you can,\u201d Purvis told Action News Jax. \u201cSo I definitely wanted to kind of go by that and try to help out as much as I could possibly.\u201d<\/p>\n ACPS will also be doing a free adoption event every weekend to finish the month of November. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Lines were out the door at the City of Jacksonville\u2019s Animal Care and Protective Services…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[24536,12189,13030,5229,76536,187438,1066,3188,723,11561,187436,7310,425,12175,12188,167757,187323,187437,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,9571],"class_list":{"0":"post-395141","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","10":"tag-action_news_jacks","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-bethany","13":"tag-clear_the_cages","14":"tag-facebook","15":"tag-fl","16":"tag-florida","17":"tag-jack","18":"tag-jack_mcdonald","19":"tag-jacksonville","20":"tag-local","21":"tag-logan","22":"tag-logan_mcdonald","23":"tag-michael_bricker","24":"tag-tiktoker","25":"tag-tiktoks","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-wolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395141","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=395141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}