{"id":50075,"date":"2024-09-22T23:33:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=50075"},"modified":"2024-09-22T23:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T03:33:28","slug":"sad-statistics-from-polk-county-animal-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/09\/22\/sad-statistics-from-polk-county-animal-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad statistics from Polk County Animal Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sad statistics from Polk County Animal Control continue to prove that those running the &#8220;shelter&#8221; are not at all concerned by the citizens who want change and accountability at our taxpayer-funded facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attached are the statistics through July.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"a79e95\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-1024x1024.webp?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50076 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a79e95; width:637px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp?w=1535&amp;ssl=1 1535w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An average of 312 cats and 135 dogs are killed each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On average 508 dogs enter the shelter each month and only about 100 are returned to their owners (less than 20%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On average 711 cats enter the shelter each month and only about 40 are returned to their owners (a bit over 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County Animal Control is still intaking ear tipped, vaccinated, altered street\/outside cats. Since they tell us they do not keep records of how many cats are taken in that are ear-tipped, we will never know the percentage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please spread the word to your friends, relatives, and neighbors, <strong>DO NOT TAKE EARTIPPED CATS TO ANIMAL CONTROL.<\/strong> It is undeniably a death sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please share these statistics so more taxpayers become aware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sad statistics from Polk County Animal Control continue to prove that those running the &#8220;shelter&#8221; are not at all concerned by the citizens who want change and accountability at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50076,"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":"12","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":50076,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460927639_867188638856506_3309205188169133026_n-jpg.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[9824],"class_list":["post-50075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-sad-statistics-from-polk-county-animal-control"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075","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=50075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50077,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions\/50077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}