{"id":22486,"date":"2016-12-20T07:28:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T12:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=22486"},"modified":"2016-12-20T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T12:28:54","slug":"gabriels-gift-adopt-an-older-dog-and-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=22486","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel&#8217;s Gift: Adopt an older dog and save"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2766\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gabriel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2766\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2766\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gabriel-303x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Brandywine Valley SPCA has announced a special end of the year Adoption Promotion for harder to place dogs at its\u00a0West Chester and New Castle locations. An anonymous donor will be subsidizing the adoption fee for any dog over 6 months old. The special will run till the end of the year.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The story behind why this promotion is called Gabriel\u2019s Gift: a grieving dog owner and dog advocate, who just lost his Boxer (Gabriel), came to the\u00a0shelter and stated that it would make him feel better if he could subsidize the adoption fee of some harder to place dogs. And thus, the Gabriel\u2019s Gift promotion was born.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gabriels-Gift-Flyer-December-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2767 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gabriels-Gift-Flyer-December-2016-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe get many dogs in the shelter that are overlooked and, quite frankly, more difficult to place due to age. All dogs under 6 months get adopted very quickly and the ones over 6 months tend to stick around,\u201d says Adam lamb, CEO of the Brandywine Valley SPCA \u201cWith this special promotion, we hope adopters give these \u2018hard luck\u2019 guys a second glance and chance to go home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you are interested in opening your home to a harder to place dog, please visit our West Chester or New Castle location before the New Year, and take home your new family member.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Brandywine Valley SPCA has announced a special end of the year Adoption Promotion for harder to place dogs at its\u00a0West Chester and New Castle locations. An anonymous donor will be subsidizing the adoption fee for any dog over 6 months old. The special will run till the end of the year.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[7038,8345,6518,8344,267],"class_list":["post-22486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-brandywine-valley-spca","tag-dog-adoption","tag-featured","tag-gabriels-gift","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486","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=22486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22487,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486\/revisions\/22487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}