{"id":313257,"date":"2014-09-10T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313257"},"modified":"2014-09-11T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T18:55:03","slug":"police-dog-found-on-verge-of-death-recovering-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313257","title":{"rendered":"Police: Dog Found on Verge of Death Recovering Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/dogrunningmrboneskpd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/dogrunningmrboneskpd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dogrunningmrboneskpd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-313258\" \/><\/a>KILGORE \u2014 A dog found emaciated and on the verge of death in Kilgore is recovering well after he had a leg amputated earlier this month.   &#8220;Mr. Bones&#8221; is up to five pounds and no longer looks emaciated, according to the Kilgore Police Department. KETK reports he has been upgraded to &#8220;skinny&#8221; and is able to get around on three legs.   Several people have approached officials and wish to adopt Mr. Bones once he is fully recovered.   KPD stated the city has received about $1,000 in donations but hasn&#8217;t quite reached the total of $1,700 to cover his cost of surgery. The public can still make donations at city hall.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Donations can be sent to:<\/p>\n<p>Kilgore City Hall<br \/>\nc\/o Animal Control<br \/>\n815 N. Kilgore St.<br \/>\nKilgore, Texas 75662 <\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Roman Roberson said they police still looking for the person responsible for Mr. Bones&#8217;s poor condition. He was discovered by the Kilgore Animal Control Unit in a local neighborhood and had been hit twice by a type of bird shot. Contact Kilgore Police Detective Tim Dukes at 903-218-6904 if you have any information on this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE \u2014 A dog found emaciated and on the verge of death in Kilgore is recovering well after he had a leg amputated earlier this month. &#8220;Mr. Bones&#8221; is up to five pounds and no longer looks emaciated, according to the Kilgore Police Department. KETK reports he has been upgraded to &#8220;skinny&#8221; and is able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police: Dog Found on Verge of Death Recovering Well<\/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-313257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 15:32:09","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\/313257","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=313257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313259,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313257\/revisions\/313259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}