{"id":74914,"date":"2025-12-03T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/74914\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:47:12","slug":"spca-of-east-texas-thanks-community-for-six-figure-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/74914\/","title":{"rendered":"SPCA of East Texas thanks community for six-figure donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Two days after its public plea for help, the SPCA of East Texas is sending a message of gratitude. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Executive Director Emily Heglund announced that in just 48 hours supporters donated $133,258 to support its mission of caring for animals in East Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The no-kill shelter faced a six-figure gap and potential closure after a year of declining donations and increased calls for service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heglund said every dollar donated is going toward providing services to animals: animal care, medical treatment, adoption and intake services, staffing, essential utilities and transport services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heglund said the SPCA of East Texas is an independent 501(c)(3) and is not affiliated with the national ASPCA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To become an SPCA East Texas Lifesaver and give monthly, visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/spcaeasttx.com\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/spcaeasttx.com\/donate\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Two days after its public plea for help, the SPCA of East Texas is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[244,2604,245,18153,36242,27,29,28,9011],"class_list":["post-74914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-animals","tag-east-texas","tag-pets","tag-smith-county","tag-spca-of-east-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}