{"id":1485274,"date":"2026-03-03T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1485274"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:31:18","slug":"new-director-for-pets-fur-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1485274","title":{"rendered":"New director for Pets Fur People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1215066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-175x174.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-353x350.jpg 353w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-768x762.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER \u2014 Pets Fur People officially named their new executive director on Tuesday, according to our news partner KETK, Kat Cortelyou joins Pets Fur People after most recently serving as the animal service manager for the City of Athens. In Athens, Cortelyou led animal control initiatives and developed fostering and transport programs. Previously, she spent eight years as director of operations for the SPCA of East Texas in Tyler. During her role with the SPCA, Cortelyou expanded lifesaving programs and increased intakes and adoptions by 40%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Kat to the Pets Fur People family,\u201d Board President Angie Bullington said. \u201cHer enthusiasm, experience, and heart for animal welfare make her an outstanding choice to lead our organization into its next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Pets Fur People officially named their new executive director on Tuesday, according to our news partner KETK, Kat Cortelyou joins Pets Fur People after most recently serving as the animal service manager for the City of Athens. In Athens, Cortelyou led animal control initiatives and developed fostering and transport programs. Previously, she spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1485274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New director for Pets Fur People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1485421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 10:36:14","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\/2023\/04\/pets4peeps-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485274","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=1485274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485630,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485274\/revisions\/1485630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}