{"id":19665,"date":"2023-03-28T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/?post_type=press-release&#038;p=19665"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:49:32","slug":"orange-county-animal-services-expands-weekend-hours","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/media-advisories\/press-releases\/2023\/03\/orange-county-animal-services-expands-weekend-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Animal Services Expands Weekend Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Shelter Now Open for Full Day of Pet Adoptions on Sundays<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13265\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AnimalServicesVert-150x150.png\" alt=\"Orange County Animal Services\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AnimalServicesVert-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AnimalServicesVert.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Orange County, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>Orange County Animal Services (OCAS) announced today it is expanding its operational hours on weekends, now offering a full day of adoption services on Sundays between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. This is the first update to the shelter\u2019s hours in approximately a decade and aims to improve availability of adoption services.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the shelter was visited by nearly 87,000 people. Weekends have proven to be the most popular opportunity for people to visit the shelter, which is located adjacent to the Mall at Millenia on Conroy Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reviewing our data, it was no surprise that Saturdays and Sundays prove most popular among our interested adopters,\u201d said Diane Summers, manager for Orange County Animal Services. \u201cWe had more than 15,000 people visit the shelter on Saturdays last year and nearly 10,000 on Sundays, and that\u2019s with only being open on Sunday afternoons. With opening for a full eight-hour day on Sundays, we anticipate seeing another 500 shelter visitors per month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the shelter had been open for a full day on Wednesdays, those hours will be reduced, from originally 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. to now 2 p.m. through 6 p.m. The later open time will provide shelter staff with opportunities for additional cleaning and for staff-wide training events. The shelter will be open from 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. for every other day of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis modification to our hours will be beneficial to shelter staff and pets alike,\u201d said Summers. \u201cOur main goal is to help boost adoptions. Last year we achieved a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/media-advisories\/press-releases\/2022\/11\/record-setting-adoption-year-for-orange-county-animal-services\/\">record adoption rate<\/a> with 9,066 pets finding new homes. We\u2019d love to see that number surpass 10,000 this year and encourage anyone looking at getting a new pet to consider adopting through our shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orange County Animal Services typically has between 250 to 300 pets in its care at any given time. They are viewable on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocnetpets.com\/Adopt\/AnimalsinShelter.aspx\">shelter\u2019s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelter Now Open for Full Day of Pet Adoptions on Sundays Orange County, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 Orange County Animal Services (OCAS) announced today it is expanding its operational hours on weekends, now offering a full day of adoption services on Sundays between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. This is the first update to the shelter\u2019s hours in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-19665","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orange County Animal Services Expands Weekend Hours<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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