{"id":23834,"date":"2022-07-22T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23834"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:50:29","slug":"the-expert-cat-killer-the-man-sheriff-grady-judd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/07\/22\/the-expert-cat-killer-the-man-sheriff-grady-judd\/","title":{"rendered":"The expert cat killer \u2026 The man, Sheriff Grady Judd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Editorial        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of fixing the issue with a 100% viable option that saves taxpayers money and time. The policy is to kill them all. And put the bodies in the Polk county dump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County continues to rank #1 in Florida for shelter animals killed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The euthanasia rate for dogs was 11% and for cats 50% in Polk County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County residents saved thousands of animals through adoptions in 2017, but even with those efforts, more than 8,800 cats and dogs were euthanized, according to statistics from the county\u2019s Animal Control Division. But the number of euthanized has grown to over 12,000 in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to stop this madness, Sheriff. \u201cInsanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, \u201c<\/strong>said Albert Einstein. So is Grady Judd insane?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)<\/strong>, the humane approach to addressing community cat populations, works. It saves cats\u2019 lives and is effective. TNR improves the lives of cats, addresses community concerns, reduces complaints about cats, and stops the breeding cycle. TNR improves the co-existence between outdoor cats and humans in our shared environment. This is why so many cities and communities are adopting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific studies and communities with TNR programs are proof that TNR reduces and stabilizes populations of community cats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Trap-Neuter-Return program, community cats are humanely trapped (with box traps), brought to a veterinarian to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, ear-tipped (the universal sign that a community cat has been neutered and vaccinated), and then returned to their outdoor home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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