{"id":279249,"date":"2026-05-21T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279249\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:40:35","slug":"2-dogs-found-tied-to-dumpster-at-central-florida-rest-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279249\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dogs found tied to dumpster at Central Florida rest stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Highway Patrol is asking for tips to help identify the person who abandoned two dogs at a rest stop in Sumter County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP posted a photo of the dogs that troopers found tied to a dumpster at the northbound rest area along Interstate 75 near Bushnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said they are looking for a woman driving a red van who was last seen with the dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP said the dogs are in good condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Highway Patrol is asking for tips to help identify the person who abandoned two dogs at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1056,28,30,618,29,119193,3315],"class_list":["post-279249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fhp","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-northbound-rest-area","tag-sumter-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}