{"id":4049,"date":"2023-04-03T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2023-04-03T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T19:37:46","slug":"sga-and-pike-animal-shelter-hold-puppy-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/03\/sga-and-pike-animal-shelter-hold-puppy-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"SGA and Pike Animal Shelter hold &#8216;Puppy Picnic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 TROY&#8217;s Student Government Association (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/groups-organizations\/student-government-association\/troy-sga\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SGA<\/a>) partnered with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pikeanimalshelter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pike Animal Shelter<\/a> to find furry friends a new home during their &#8220;Puppy Picnic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have found out that Pike Animal Shelter is only one or two dogs away from being at capacity and having to start put animals down,&#8221; explained SGA Academic Affairs Senator Sarah Laney. &#8220;They have no more room for them and we absolutely do not want that so we have partnered with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students met outside to enjoy the weather and ease their mind from their extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These pups are just absolutely precious,&#8221; said SGA Senator Camryn Easterling. &#8220;We wanted to just bring them out here and just let the students come hang out with them and just have a good time. Just ease out from all the hard classes that are going on, especially at the end of the semester.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Puppy Picnic not only gave the pups a chance to be adopted, but also let them be free and social with students for a few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They get to be outside all day and there&#8217;s so many there that they just can&#8217;t let them all be outside roaming around, even on leashes, because there are so many,&#8221; Laney said. &#8220;There&#8217;s so few volunteers and workers there so they just get to be around so many people and get all that love and attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone looking to adopt a dog or give a donation is highly encouraged to reach out to the animal shelter. The fee to apply is $125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY&#8217;s Student Government Association (SGA) partnered with the Pike Animal Shelter to find furry friends a new home during their &#8220;Puppy Picnic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have found out that Pike Animal Shelter is only one or two dogs away from being at capacity and having to start put animals down,&#8221; explained SGA Academic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/03\/sga-and-pike-animal-shelter-hold-puppy-picnic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}