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Also, Animal Control contracts out about 90% of its spay and neuter services, why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With an additional veterinarian, Animal Control could put a huge dent in these two issues.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAnimal Control needs to work with the animal non-for-profits to get the animals out of the pound and get adopted. \u00a0One dog was in the pound for 161 days before being adopted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lakeland is getting two Cat Caf\u00e9s and already has a mobile cat adoption company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two, Polk County Animal Control needs a low-cost spay and neuter voucher program for low-income and senior clients. Free rabies vaccine weekends twice a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the third thing, Polk County Animal Control needs to support the Trap and release program (TNR).<\/p>\n\n\n Trap-neuter-release programs save cat lives and stabilize the community cat population.<\/p>\n\n\n If Sheriff Grady Judd refuses to support this solution the only option is to remove Polk County Animal Control out of the control of the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To date, Sheriff Grady Judd has refused to comment or allow an interview of himself on these topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editorial The answer is yes, but the following has to be resolved, ASAP. Currently, with only one veterinarian, Animal Control cannot do proper medical care to all the animals. Also,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[8],"tags":[3194],"class_list":["post-24067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","tag-can-polk-county-animal-control-be-fixed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24067","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=24067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/girl-playing-with-cats-in-cat-cafe-1063781456-613a218c722a4c79ba869ab5bf2d0bd1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1\")
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