{"id":32672,"date":"2023-06-06T22:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32672"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:20:30","slug":"polk-county-has-tnr-cats-up-for-adoption-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/06\/06\/polk-county-has-tnr-cats-up-for-adoption-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County has TNR cats up for adoption, why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by Suzanne Jackson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today in our county shelter I come across 5 ear-tipped cats impounded and waiting for their ultimate demise (that were obvious, there could be more) Polk County refuses to recognize ear-tipped cats, (which are always spayed or neutered). They are described as &#8220;unaltered&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"964\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" data-id=\"32673\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/351516623_584678660401188_5843704990352229533_n.jpg?resize=1024%2C964&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/351516623_584678660401188_5843704990352229533_n.jpg?resize=1024%2C964&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/351516623_584678660401188_5843704990352229533_n.jpg?resize=300%2C283&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/352229061_617974660059887_1516529949641032205_n.jpg?resize=960%2C899&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/352229061_617974660059887_1516529949641032205_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/352229061_617974660059887_1516529949641032205_n.jpg?resize=300%2C281&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/352229061_617974660059887_1516529949641032205_n.jpg?resize=768%2C719&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Impounding ear-tipped cats is a waste of resources and an ultimate death sentence for the cat. Either the staff is that stupid or they just don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fyi YOUR tax dollars pay for this! Adopt A TNR amendment to the animal control ordinance. Save money. Save lives. And stop looking stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Suzanne Jackson Today in our county shelter I come across 5 ear-tipped cats impounded and waiting for their ultimate demise (that were obvious, there could be more) Polk&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32673,"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":[11],"tags":[5179,1412],"class_list":["post-32672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-polk-county-has-tnr-cats-up-for-adoption","tag-why"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32672","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32678,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32672\/revisions\/32678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}