{"id":16720,"date":"2015-07-29T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16720"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:11:35","slug":"brandywine-ace-donates-pet-products-to-ccspca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16720","title":{"rendered":"Brandywine Ace donates pet products to CCSPCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1152390\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CCSPCA-263x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1152390\" class=\"wp-image-1152390 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CCSPCA-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"CCSPCA\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1152390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eli Martinez (left) and Julie Landy (right) stopped at Brandywine Ace, Pet &amp; Farm to receive a donation from pet and wild bird manager Lauren Bohnert (center).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>POCOPSON \u2014 As she reorganized some pet products in the store, Lauren Bohnert, manager of pet and wild bird departments at Brandywine Ace, Pet &amp; Farm, put together an assortment of items including collars, leashes, litter pans, and dog toys. \u201cThere was approximately $1,500 worth of product, but many were items of which we no longer have a good selection in color or size or just don\u2019t carry any longer,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe thought our friends at the Chester County SPCA (CCSPCA) could put them to good use.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eli Martinez, who leads up strategic partnerships and advancement for CCSPCA and Julie Landy, community engagement manager, were thrilled with collection of pet-related items. \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing donation!\u201d asserts Martinez. He adds that many of the items will be put to use immediately at CCSPCA or shared with local rescues. Plus, he says some of the collars and leashes will be given to adopters. \u201cSometimes people are so excited about getting their new pet that they don\u2019t think to bring a collar or leash,\u201d he chuckles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1152399\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ace-mobile-adoption-1-232x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1152399\" class=\"wp-image-1152399 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ace-mobile-adoption-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ace-mobile-adoption-1\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1152399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A CCSPCA volunteer cuddles a puppy at a recent mobile adoption event at Brandywine Ace, Pet &amp; Farm.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brandywine Ace, Pet &amp; Farm, located at 1150 Pocopson Rd., West Chester, hosts the CCSPCA for adoption events on the third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and regularly houses kittens for adoption at the store. Martinez believes mobile adoption events, such as those at Brandywine Ace, Pet &amp; Farm, are very successful because the dogs they select for these \u201ctours\u201d have been well-tested for temperament and \u201cPeople are impulsive. If they are shopping in the store and an adorable puppy magically appears in front of them, they just fall in love with it,\u201d he says with a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POCOPSON \u2014 As she reorganized some pet products in the store, Lauren Bohnert, manager of pet and wild bird departments at Brandywine Ace, Pet &amp; Farm, put together an assortment of items including collars, leashes, litter pans, and dog toys. \u201cThere was approximately $1,500 worth of product, but many were items of which we no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[5857,5128,6454,1075],"class_list":["post-16720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-business","tag-adoptions","tag-brandywine-ace-pet-farm","tag-ccspca","tag-donations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}