{"id":1078,"date":"2019-07-26T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2019-07-26T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:23:30","slug":"polk-county-animal-control-giving-away-free-pets-on-saturdays-during-dog-and-cat-days-of-summer-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/07\/26\/polk-county-animal-control-giving-away-free-pets-on-saturdays-during-dog-and-cat-days-of-summer-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Animal Control giving away free pets on Saturdays during &#8220;Dog (and Cat) Days of Summer&#8221; promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/unnamed-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/unnamed-100.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/unnamed-100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/unnamed-100-768x512.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every Saturday in July, Polk County Animal Control is waiving the adoption fees for dogs and cats in an effort to help provide loving homes for them, during our first-ever &#8220;Dog (and Cat) Days of Summer&#8221; promotion.<br>So far the promotion has been a huge success, and we are considering running the promotion through August as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Animal Control is located at 7115 de Castro Road in Winter Haven, just off the Polk Parkway Winter Lake Road exit, near the county landfill. Kennel hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can view adoptable pets on our website:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001VjUqoil6g_o0IZWPABs7qG_sQsn7idn7XPNd4MVLIOp4o8zBWEua_0ld1Be7aKZda6Ef-zHkNqwYRfn3mRZgcSnBuUMazgVkmIaOTDf_MT7kdmHgoW_zEy_Co1ynRx4y7BFOmKIE564gFS9ZFw-chWMhTS2_ikzcX-u6xGsfHG23ynycRY91G91qbNsD9PZ2Wb6kSJeQvoVd4P9GywkOsFBHoySIIrbIiXO0pz_qpHmhoRA5x80TgRW5_a6S76LCGNhSx6HCzaY=&amp;c=GvXxjMtH-Kt1YotaM_TJFSPEnjygVtAZFVlxrp7seM1kpzLJzu3I5w==&amp;ch=GuLx4tAbMGZBGpZLZffVE1vzJfzas_3Xp09_VFj6mz1wjlh-7DF1yA==\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.polksheriff.org\/animal-services<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder, we adopt out cats and dogs every Monday through Saturday throughout the year; we are closed on Sundays and on specific holidays per the county holiday calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each pet adopted from Animal Control is spayed or neutered, and has been given its first shots, along with the following: De-worming; Heartworm testing; Heartworm preventative (if applicable); Rabies vaccination; tag; flea preventative treatment; and we offer (and encourage) microchipping. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Saturday in July, Polk County Animal Control is waiving the adoption fees for dogs and cats in an effort to help provide loving homes for them, during our first-ever&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}