PLANT CITY, Fla. - This weekend, the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center and several other municipalities’ shelters from across the Tampa Bay area will participate in the Third Annual Mega Dog Adoption Event.

By the numbers:

Shelters across the country have been housing record-breaking numbers of dogs in recent years.

Right now, the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center is about 150% capacity for dogs. Some have been at the shelter for more than 100 days, a county spokesperson said.

What To Know:

Dogs will come from shelters in Manatee , Marion, Orange, Pasco , Polk and Sumter counties.

The event runs Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the Grimes Family Agricultural Center at the Florida Strawberry Festival Fairgrounds.

Each day, more than 300 a

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