{"id":1297268,"date":"2024-02-13T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1297268"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T21:51:21","slug":"smith-county-free-spay-neuter-funds-for-residents-pets-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1297268","title":{"rendered":"Smith County free spay, neuter funds approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-175x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1297269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-175x140.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-225x180.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-437x350.jpg 437w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-2048x1639.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Commissioners Court has approved the use of funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to offer free spaying and neutering for pets of  Smith County residents. According to our news partner KETK, county officials said Smith County received $45 million in funding  from ARPA, to provide relief following the Covid-19 pandemic. The Smith County Commissioners Court approved the use of $100,000 of that funding to offer free spaying and neutering as a part of the No Strays Project.<br \/>\n <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Commissioners stated the funds will be given to Angel Paws Advocates, a local nonprofit animal rescue, which will be partnered with the No Strays Project. Funding is also going to be used  to provide micro-chipping and rabies vaccinations to pets of Smith County residents..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Commissioners Court has approved the use of funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to offer free spaying and neutering for pets of Smith County residents. According to our news partner KETK, county officials said Smith County received $45 million in funding from ARPA, to provide relief following the Covid-19 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1297268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County free spay, neuter funds approved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1297275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-175x140.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County free spay, neuter funds for residents pets approved","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 13:44:04","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\/2024\/02\/lab-dog-ap-pic-175x140.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County free spay, neuter funds for residents pets approved","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297268","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297362,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297268\/revisions\/1297362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}