{"id":56645,"date":"2022-12-27T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=56645"},"modified":"2022-12-27T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T01:02:25","slug":"lee-county-to-open-sites-for-stray-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/12\/lee-county-to-open-sites-for-stray-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Lee County to open sites for stray pets<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lee County Domestic Animal Services staff will be at off-site locations to be available for residents to bring stray animals to be scanned for microchips for the \u201cDo What\u2019s Right \u2013 Reunite\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff says the New Year\u2019s holiday creates an influx of stray pets because of firework celebrations, which frequently startle dogs and cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/social-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/social-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/social-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/social-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/social.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Animal Services experiences this each year and recognizes that it is not always convenient for residents to bring animals they have found to the county facility within 24 hours as required by county ordinance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To assist with this, staff will be at the following locations for Do What\u2019s Right &#8211; Reunite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday, Jan. 2<\/strong>: North Fort Myers Public Library, 2001 N. Tamiami Trail North Fort Myers, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tuesday, Jan. 3<\/strong>: Veterans Park, 55 Homestead Road, Lehigh Acres, at the Lodge, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information call&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:2395337387\">239-533-7387<\/a>&nbsp;(LEE-PETS) or visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelostpets.com\/\">Lee Lost Pets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Domestic Animal Services staff will be at off-site locations to be available for residents to bring stray animals to be scanned for microchips for the \u201cDo What\u2019s Right&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2034],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56645"}],"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=56645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56648,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56645\/revisions\/56648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}