{"id":290647,"date":"2014-02-04T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=290647"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:14:46","slug":"rusk-county-sees-spike-in-animal-cruelty-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=290647","title":{"rendered":"Rusk County Sees Spike in Animal Cruelty Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=290657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-290657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty\" width=\"109\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-290657\" \/><\/a>HENDERSON \u2014 The Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s Office says animal abuse calls reached a record high in January. KETK reports animal control personnel had a total of 16 calls last month. That\u2019s more than the previous three months combined. But Sheriff Jeff Price says don\u2019t let the numbers startle you. \u201cPeople are being cautious and worrying after the story came out about the dog that had frozen to death back during the very cold weather that we had,\u201d says Price, \u201cand people are just more aware, and they\u2019re watching out for the animals now. So that\u2019s where most of our spike has come from.\u201d He says most of the calls are for dogs, but none of them have been in grave danger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON \u2014 The Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s Office says animal abuse calls reached a record high in January. KETK reports animal control personnel had a total of 16 calls last month. That\u2019s more than the previous three months combined. But Sheriff Jeff Price says don\u2019t let the numbers startle you. \u201cPeople are being cautious and worrying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=290647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rusk County Sees Spike in Animal Cruelty Calls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 04:43:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290647","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290735,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290647\/revisions\/290735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}