{"id":55015,"date":"2025-04-06T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=55015"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:25:12","slug":"did-you-know-that-hillsborough-county-has-enacted-a-county-wide-tnvr-trap-neuter-vaccinate-return-program-and-polk-county-refuses-to-operate-a-tnvr-program-due-to-grady-judds-closed-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/06\/did-you-know-that-hillsborough-county-has-enacted-a-county-wide-tnvr-trap-neuter-vaccinate-return-program-and-polk-county-refuses-to-operate-a-tnvr-program-due-to-grady-judds-closed-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that Hillsborough County has enacted a county-wide TNVR (Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) program and Polk County refuses to operate a TNVR program due to Grady Judd’s closed mind . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did you know that Hillsborough County has enacted a county-wide TNVR (Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) program and their statistics reflect the progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2013 to present:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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47% reduction in euthanasia over 5 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$320,000 saved in annual shelter operations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30% decrease in shelter intake numbers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also have an Animal Abuse Registry that has seen an 89% reduction in repeat offender cases and prevented 156 adoptions to registered abusers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also post their statistics for full transparency to the public taxpayers who fund the shelter, both monthly and yearly. Their statistics do not need to be “requested”. All animals transferred to other rescues\/shelters are listed as such, not hidden inside the “Adoption” numbers like Polk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some comparisons for the previous fiscal year:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLK took in 14,588 animals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillsborough took in 13,588 animals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLK euthanized 1,742 dogs and 3,552 cats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillsborough euthanized 258 dogs and 270 cats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillsborough released to field 3,071 cats thru TNVR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLK Live Release Rate was 68% dogs and 52% cats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillsborough Live Release Rate was 91.73% dogs and 94.56% cats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillsborough also offers Pet Retention Services to the public which is helping animals stay in their homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1,555 dog owners were offered Pet Retention Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n

36 cat owners were offered Pet Retention Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1459 dog owners accepted help and kept their animals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 cat owners accepted help and kept their animals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retention Services success % is 93.83% for dogs and 55.56% for cats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please donate to help us continue to help the Street Cats of Polk County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.streetcatproject.org<\/a> or Paypal @streetcatproject<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#feralcats<\/a> #bartow<\/a> #Bartow<\/a> #tnr<\/a> #winterhaven<\/a> #mulberryfl<\/a> #streetcats<\/a> #streetcatsofinstagram<\/a> #streetcatsofpolkcounty<\/a> #lakelandfl<\/a> #euthanasiaisnotpopulationcontrol<\/a> #auburndale<\/a> #Auburndale<\/a> #tnrworks<\/a> #communitycats<\/a> #TNR<\/a> #tnrsaveslives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that Hillsborough County has enacted a county-wide TNVR (Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) program and their statistics reflect the progress. From 2013 to present: 47% reduction in euthanasia… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37576,"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":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMTBcL2p1ZGQuanBlZz9maXQ9NTgwJTJDNzgyJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiRGlkIHlvdSBrbm93IHRoYXQgSGlsbHNib3JvdWdoIENvdW50eSBoYXMgZW5hY3RlZCBhIGNvdW50eS13aWRlIFROVlIgKFRyYXAsIE5ldXRlciwgVmFjY2luYXRlLCBSZXR1cm4pIHByb2dyYW0gYW5kIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IHJlZnVzZXMgdG8gb3BlcmF0ZSBhIFROVlIgcHJvZ3JhbSBkdWUgdG8gR3JhZHkgSnVkZCYjODIxNztzIGNsb3NlZCBtaW5kIC4gLiAuIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.yE7F5PjSbZN7BCEFt6RcLP_GjS3hvOfsp57J2Povk7gMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":37576,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/judd.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[11267,11268,11270,11269],"class_list":["post-55015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-did-you-know-that-hillsborough-county-has-enacted-a-county-wide-tnvr-trap","tag-neuter","tag-return-program-and-polk-county-refuses-to-operate-a-tnvr-program-due-to-grady-judds-closed-mind","tag-vaccinate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015","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=55015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55017,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015\/revisions\/55017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}