{"id":1960,"date":"2011-05-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/vdt-incorporates-video-into-animal-shelter-tour-report.html"},"modified":"2011-05-31T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:00:00","slug":"vdt-incorporates-video-into-animal-shelter-tour-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/vdt-incorporates-video-into-animal-shelter-tour-report.html","title":{"rendered":"VDT incorporates video into animal shelter tour report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess they thought a good time to start in-line YouTube video<br \/>\nwas when they could show<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x1759378001\/Tour-of-the-Lowndes-County-Animal-Shelter\"><br \/>\nkitties and puppies.<\/a><br \/>\nHey, if that gets the VDT doing video, I&#8217;m for it!<\/p>\n<p>\nDavid Rodock wrote 26 May 2011,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x1759378001\/Tour-of-the-Lowndes-County-Animal-Shelter\"><br \/>\nTour of the Lowndes County Animal Shelter<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x1759378001\/Tour-of-the-Lowndes-County-Animal-Shelter\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/archive\/x108200595\/g0a000000000000000068014ac77352d628537254100a2eaab20512a5eb.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nAs promised at Tuesday\u2019s Lowndes County Board of Commissioners<br \/>\nmeeting, the Lowndes County Animal Shelter (LCAS) allowed the public<br \/>\nthe opportunity Wednesday afternoon to get a behind-the-scenes look at<br \/>\nthe facility that has recently come under fire.<\/p>\n<p>\nEmployees, both past and present, have accused several shelter employees<br \/>\nof inhumane treatment of animals, the mishandling of tranquilizers and<br \/>\nillegal operating procedures.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-vdt-was-kind-in-their-reporting-jessica-bryant-hughes.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/2ZxieSV6Yz8\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nAt least two of the speakers at the commission earlier in the day<br \/>\ntook the tour:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-vdt-was-kind-in-their-reporting-jessica-bryant-hughes.html\"><br \/>\nJessica Bryan Hughes<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/why-do-you-not-fire-that-person-judy-havercamp.html\"><br \/>\nJudy Havercamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the visitors summed it up:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/why-do-you-not-fire-that-person-judy-havercamp.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/RH9L84IulJU\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cI think that there\u2019s a lot of questions that need to be cleared<br \/>\nup,\u201d said Haverkamp. \u201cThe commissioners need to clean house and<br \/>\ndo their job. As far as how they keep this place, I\u2019ve never heard<br \/>\nanything bad, that part\u2019s good. I\u2019m just curious about the timing<br \/>\nof this walkthrough. It seems kind of strange. The allegations really<br \/>\nhave nothing to do with the shelter itself, but more to do with the<br \/>\noperators. Taxpayers pay these salaries and we have a right to know<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s going on here.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMore in <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/i-think-that-addresses-the-issues-joe-pritchard.html\">the next post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess they thought a good time to start in-line YouTube video was when they could show kitties and puppies. Hey, if that gets the VDT doing video, I&#8217;m for it! David Rodock wrote 26 May 2011, Tour of the Lowndes County Animal Shelter As promised at Tuesday\u2019s Lowndes County Board of Commissioners meeting, the Lowndes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,324,48,40,2,2848,88,21],"tags":[3720,8763,3811,4077,8720,1094,3354,4472,77,1552,8701,10,4473,4101,136,4474,8702,91,12,7,8734,812,4475,6,8742],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-animals","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-government","category-lcc-24-may-2011","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","tag-animal-control","tag-animals","tag-cameras","tag-castration","tag-code-enforcement","tag-county-manager","tag-david-rodock","tag-dosage","tag-drugs","tag-euthanasia","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-inhumane-treatment","tag-jessica-bryan-hughes","tag-joe-pritchard","tag-judy-havercamp","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-ordinance","tag-tranquilizers","tag-valdosta","tag-vdt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}