{"id":1154493,"date":"2022-08-17T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1154493"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:30:00","slug":"15-dogs-prairie-dog-macaw-seized-from-smith-county-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1154493","title":{"rendered":"15 dogs, prairie dog, macaw seized from Smith County residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1154518\" \/>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d About 15 dogs, a prairie dog, and a macaw were recovered from a property on CR 223 in southeast Smith County Monday as a result of a search warrant by the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, officials said. According to our news partner KETK, Sheriff&#8217;s Sgt. Larry Christian said the animals were placed in the care of Smith County Animal Control.  Authorities say City of Tyler Animal Control assisted in the seizure. Christian said one Smith County Animal Control officer was bitten by a dog during the seizure and taken to a local hospital for treatment.  Christian added that any animals located that weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t being attended to were taken just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for their welfare.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  He said the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office is working diligently and has a detective working the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d About 15 dogs, a prairie dog, and a macaw were recovered from a property on CR 223 in southeast Smith County Monday as a result of a search warrant by the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, officials said. According to our news partner KETK, Sheriff&#8217;s Sgt. Larry Christian said the animals were placed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1154493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">15 dogs, prairie dog, macaw seized from Smith County residence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1154535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/sheriff.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"15 dogs, prairie dog, macaw seized from Smith County residence","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 16:44:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/sheriff.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"15 dogs, prairie dog, macaw seized from Smith County residence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154555,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154493\/revisions\/1154555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}