{"id":24350,"date":"2013-06-21T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24350"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T21:10:42","slug":"tethered-dogs-suffer-from-heat-exhaustion-one-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/tethered-dogs-suffer-from-heat-exhaustion-one-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tethered Dogs Suffer from Heat<br> Exhaustion\u2014One Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24351\" title=\"Dog Temp\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dog-Temp-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dog-Temp-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dog-Temp.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On June 19 Lee County Domestic Animal Services responded to a call at 1016 Habersan Ave. in Lehigh Acres regarding two dogs tied out without water.\u00a0 When officers arrived one of the Bull Mastiffs was dead and the other was in obvious distress.<\/p>\n<p>A thermometer placed in the vicinity of the dogs registered 112 degrees Fahrenheit.\u00a0\u00a0 The internal temperature of the deceased dog registered 130 degree Fahrenheit.\u00a0 As no one was home at the time, both dogs were removed from the property and brought to Animal Services\u2019 clinic.\u00a0 The surviving dog was treated for heat exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The caretaker for the last month, Valencia Ward, was subsequently charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty under Florida State Statute punishable by a $5,000 fine and up to one year in jail for the deceased canine.\u00a0 Ward was also charged with animal cruelty under Lee County Ordinance for the surviving dog which suffered from heat exhaustion.\u00a0 The dog was released back to the owner, Stacey Johnson.\u00a0 She was charged with failure to license and vaccinate her dog.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County\u2019s Ordinance will be up for review by Commissioners in August.\u00a0 The new ordinance would prohibit the outdoor unsupervised tethering of dogs.\u00a0 Officers routinely deal with the problem which often leads to strangulation, heat exhaustion, and aggression.\u00a0 Fourteen Florida cities and counties have already passed anti-tethering ordinances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed ordinance change would give Animal Control Officers the legal authority to prevent such senseless cruelty,\u201d says Glenn Johnson, LCDAS Operations Manager.\u00a0 To report animal neglect or abuse call Lee County Domestic Animal Services at 239-533-7387 (LEE-Pets).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 19 Lee County Domestic Animal Services responded to a call at 1016 Habersan Ave. in Lehigh Acres regarding two dogs tied out without water.\u00a0 When officers arrived one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}