JaxAnimalCare
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Animal Care & Protective Services provides animal control for Duval County and is a destination for adoptable dogs and cats!
Jacksonville, FL
Joined August 2009
Good morning, Jacksonville! We hope you're enjoying this gorgeous weather as much as adoptable pup Chik-Fil-A. 🌅 Want to adopt, foster, or go on a Dogs Around Duval trip? We're open 12:00 - 7:00 today! 📍 2020 Forest St. Jacksonville, FL #yourcityshelter #jacksonvilleflorida
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low-pressure interactions help fearful animals form positive associations with humans. 🐾 ❤️ Stay tuned for more details and for our official launch date! 📚 #yourcityshelter #shelterdogsrock #sheltercatsrock
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pet. It's a total win-win: kids gain confidence and practice their reading skills (it can be way less intimidating to read aloud to a dog than to a classroom full of kids!), and stressed shelter dogs and cats get companionship and comfort. Studies show that these calm,
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where River City Readers comes in! The River City Readers program is a citywide literacy initiative (learn more here: https://t.co/pTfd7dCZbT ) and is coming soon to ACPS. Kids will be able to select an age-appropriate book from our dog house bookshelf and read it to a shelter
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We all know that you can teach old dogs new tricks, but apparently reading isn't one of them! Two of our staff members tried to help senior dog Luke, a new intake, ease some shelter stress by offering him a book to read. He wasn't quite getting the hang of it though—but that's
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almost-adoptable puppy Davon Hamilton (A1462133) for Cute Ear Tax 🌟 📍 Oceanway Community Center 12215 Sago Ave W, Jacksonville, FL 32218 Saturday 9/7 and Sunday 9/8 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Event link is here: share with your family and friends!
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buddy? A high-energy catching practice partner? Someone in between? Our team of expert adoption counselors and volunteer matchmakers will be on hand to introduce you to a roster of 40 dogs, puppies, kittens, and adult cats all weekend! Adoptable kitten Boink (A1454361) and
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We're kicking off fall with an awesome offsite (not offSIDE, that would be silly) event at Oceanway Community Center this weekend! ALL adoption fees are waived this weekend to help celebrate as many #HappyTails as possible. ❤️🏈 Looking for a football-watching couch potato
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a short-term Space Force foster during this project would be huge. If you're interested in fostering, please reach out to ACPSFosters@coj.net or inquire at the front desk! We'll go over all of his medical notes and any questions you might have. 💖 #beforeandafter
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Fostering or adopting this sweet boy! We have one final round of our HVAC repair project, and this one involves COMPLETELY emptying our surgery and treatment area of animals, meaning Danny needs somewhere to go. Due to his special needs, we would LOVE to see him in a home—even
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legs, but might benefit from a wheelchair (which we can provide!) to help him move around more easily. Danny appears housetrained and he has gained quite a bit of confidence, but can still be shy around new people. So, something that would be extra ✨ cutesy ✨ ?
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Giving in to these puppy dog eyes would be very ✨ mindful ✨ very ✨demure. ✨ Meet Danny! His #BeforeAndAfterFriday pictures can't even come close to showing the progress he's made since coming to the shelter severely injured in July. He is recovering use of his hind
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This weekend, 8/30 - 9/2, we'll be waiving ALL adoption fees to help as many of our pets find homes as possible! View all of our currently available pets here: https://t.co/R5KDH1sdQP and stop by the shelter during open hours to meet your new best friend. 🤩 #yourcityshelter
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This month is a great month—it's the NBCUniversal @cleartheshelters #ClearTheShelters adoption month! Animal shelters across the country have been able to connect even more animals with their people during a time of year where shelters often see the highest population.
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anyone who might need these resources, please reach out to jaxacpskhristina@gmail.com or visit our Amazon wish list here: https://t.co/ASXejs9uB9 Items can be dropped off or delivered directly to the shelter at: Animal Care & Protective Services 2020 Forest Street, Jax Fl 32204
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to hold some supplies, they'll be perfect. As always, THANK YOU to everyone who is sharing this initiative and who has generously donated to Bo's Hope already. Never stray from hope. ❤️ If you'd like to be part of keeping this pantry stocked and help us spread the word to
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extra grateful for some bags. Backpacks, drawstring bags, tote bags, reusable grocery bags, freebies from 5ks and corporate events, deals you find on Amazon... any and all would be wonderful! We don't mind if they've got a logo or design on them, and as long as they're big enough
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supplies have been steadily coming in to the shelter, and we quickly realized we had a fantastic problem on our hands—we had a TON of necessary items, but we really had no idea how to pack them efficiently or make it so they could be grab-and-go. So enter: backpacks! We'd be
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