TAMPA - The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is celebrating a record-setting Clear the Shelters weekend.

From Friday through Sunday, the shelter was filled with people eager to adopt — with lines forming outside before doors opened each day. Adoption fees were waived for animals three months and older, and by the end of the weekend, 192 had found homes.

Among them was Aakilah Brown, who showed up outside the shelter at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning. She slept on a bench to make sure she could adopt a schnauzer named Snoopy, after also taking home a Lab puppy the day before.

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"I’ve been waiting here since 1:27 a.m. I even slept on a bench outside. I brought two covers," Brown said, adding that what keeps her coming back is the way the shelter cares for and prepares pets be

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