{"id":57100,"date":"2025-08-07T17:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=57100"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:52:53","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-please-help-us-update-the-outdated-animal-control-policies-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/08\/07\/letter-to-the-editor-please-help-us-update-the-outdated-animal-control-policies-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Please help us update the outdated Animal Control policies in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Tammy Guest <\/p>\n\n\n

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Please help us demand change to help stop thousands of pets from dying each year in Polk County, Florida, due to outdated political policies, refusal to follow science-driven practices in pet population management, and the unwillingness, in some cases, flat-out refusal, to allow community professionals to help turn this titanic around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tammy Guest  Please help us demand change to help stop thousands of pets from dying each year in Polk County, Florida, due to outdated political policies, refusal to follow… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57101,"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":"11","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDhcLzUyNjc0NTk1NF8xMDE2MjE4NDI4NzU2OTEzMl83Nzc4OTE2ODk1MDYzMzI0NzU0X24ud2VicD9maXQ9NTI2JTJDNzg5JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiTGV0dGVyIHRvIHRoZSBFZGl0b3I6IFBsZWFzZSBoZWxwIHVzIHVwZGF0ZSB0aGUgb3V0ZGF0ZWQgQW5pbWFsIENvbnRyb2wgcG9saWNpZXMgaW4gUG9sayBDb3VudHkiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.paYcs0x8fxtfZZv7x8Lhre7VursKcYf8fPgpyuomR8IMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":57101,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/526745954_10162184287569132_7778916895063324754_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[11933],"class_list":["post-57100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-letter-to-the-editor-please-help-us-update-the-outdated-animal-control-policies-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57100","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=57100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57102,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57100\/revisions\/57102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}