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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSheriff Grady Judd in charge of Polk County Animal Control kills animals while posing a grave risk to the environment, other animals, and people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Polk Animal Control is located next to the landfill in Winter Haven, FL. Considering they have some of the\u00a0highest euthanasia rates in Florida\u2014if not the highest, they kill 15 animals per day with this toxic pentobarbital. Those 15 bodies are dumped into the landfill every single day, with an average combined weight of 150 pounds. Imagine the horror of corpses full of this toxic chemical being buried on our land. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n@Dr. Weedon was recently educating me about the dangers of this putrid chemical which not only wreaks havoc on the animals subjected to it, but it also poisons the environment, contaminating everything in its path, including birds wildlife, and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDr Weedon, with his expertise in veterinary medicine and public health, can speak up on this\u2014an urgent public health and environmental crisis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And to make matters worse, someone commented on one of our posts just days ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI worked at the landfill, and once a month they pick up an entire roll-off filled with them. They call them DA\u2014Dead Animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not just an issue. It\u2019s a catastrophe in the making.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The drug used for euthanasia leaches into and contaminates soil and causes harm and disease spread among scavengers, insects, and vermin who eat these animals. Miserable to think about but… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53832,"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":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDJcLzQ3NTc2NTE3M18xMDE2MTQ2MDEwNTk3OTEzMl8yNTM0NTg2MDQyMDgzMTA3MDlfbi53ZWJwP2ZpdD0yNjElMkMxNDMmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJEaWQgeW91IGtub3cgdGhlcmUgYXJlIGVudmlyb25tZW50YWwgaW1wYWN0cyBmcm9tIHRha2luZyBldXRoYW5pemVkIGFuaW1hbHMgdG8gYSBsYW5kZmlsbD8iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.T1I1WXNuu0XZnVUigZ_vInAwjTXo0IhvYKso9LaUsYQMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":53832,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/475765173_10161460105979132_253458604208310709_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10880],"class_list":["post-53831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-did-you-know-there-are-environmental-impacts-from-taking-euthanized-animals-to-a-landfill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53831","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=53831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53834,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53831\/revisions\/53834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}