{"id":29574,"date":"2014-02-14T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T23:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=29574"},"modified":"2014-02-14T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T23:30:02","slug":"lehigh-acres-family-and-cats-removed-after-hoarding-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/02\/lehigh-acres-family-and-cats-removed-after-hoarding-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Family and Cats <br>Removed After Hoarding Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-29575\" title=\"house 2\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/house-2-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/house-2-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/house-2.png 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Lee County Domestic Animal Services, Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Code Enforcement and the Department of Children and Families were all called out to the home.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Gazette got a first-hand look at hoarding in Lehigh Acres as officials recovered ten cats and piles of trash from a home in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s totally infested with roaches, fleas and ticks,&#8221; said Lt. Angel Cruz with Lee County Domestic Animal Services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Code Enforcement deemed the home &#8220;unlivable,&#8221; so the family will need to find another place to stay. \u00a0They told the Gazette they&#8217;re relieved county officials showed up so they can finally get the help they&#8217;ve needed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-29576\" title=\"house 1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/house-1-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/house-1-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/house-1.png 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can go nowhere but up from here,&#8221; the resident said.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Services currently has more than 50 reports about animal hoarders in Lee County. \u00a0Many hoarding cases often involve animals.<\/p>\n<p>A special task force has been set up to help hoarders in Lee County. \u00a0If you, or someone you know is in a hoarding situation, call 239-533-7387.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Domestic Animal Services, Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Code Enforcement and the Department of Children and Families were all called out to the home. The Lehigh Acres Gazette got&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574"}],"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=29574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}