{"id":1447094,"date":"2025-10-05T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1447094"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:49:05","slug":"smith-county-animal-shelter-operates-with-limited-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1447094","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Animal Shelter operating with limited staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1447095\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/animal-200x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/animal-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/animal-349x350.webp 349w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/animal-768x769.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/animal.webp 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Animal Shelter is operating with limited staff and is asking community members to call to make an appointment to adopt one of the available dogs, according to our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Smith County Fire Marshal and Smith County Animal Shelter staff are working hard to take care of the 65 animals, despite being short staffed and continuing to respond to emergency dog calls,\u201d the county said \u201cThank you for your dedication and service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shelter said on Friday that there are 19 dogs available for adoption, including several puppies. Community members can make an appointment by calling the shelter at 903-266-4303.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Animal Shelter is operating with limited staff and is asking community members to call to make an appointment to adopt one of the available dogs, according to our news partner KETK. \u201cThe Smith County Fire Marshal and Smith County Animal Shelter staff are working hard to take care of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1447094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Animal Shelter operating with limited staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1447557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/animal-200x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 18:22:46","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\/2025\/10\/animal-200x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447094","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447094"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447586,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447094\/revisions\/1447586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}