{"id":751119,"date":"2018-01-23T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751119"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:35:28","slug":"russia-plans-to-slaughter-hundreds-of-stray-dogs-before-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751119","title":{"rendered":"Russia plans to slaughter hundreds of stray dogs before the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WILL STEWART:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Russia is planning a mass slaughter of stray dogs ahead of the this year\u2019s World Cup despite assurances this will not happen, claim animal rights campaigners. Tenders worth \u00a31.4million have been signed in host cities to deploy \u201ccanine KGB\u201d deaths squads, according to Ekaterina Dmitrieva, director of the City Animal Protection Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The campaigners are furious that Fifa is turning a blind eye to the \u201cbutchers\u201d and refusing to press the Russian government over the \u201cscandal\u201d. A petition demanding urgent action wants: \u201cHundreds thousands of dogs, cats and even birds will be destroyed by terrible poison \u2013 or in ways that are even more cruel.&#8221; The 11 host cities \u201cwill drown in the blood of homeless animals\u201d, it is claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Deputy premier Vitaly Mutko&#8230; recently ordered host cities to set up temporary animal shelters for the estimated two million strays in these locations. But Dmitrieva insisted that that cash has been paid already to pay for teams \u2013 nicknamed \u201ccanine KGB hit squads\u201d \u2013 and poisons to wipe out homeless dogs and other animals&#8230; Her demands to switch the cash to sterilising, immunising and caring for the animals has been met with silence, she said&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/908195\/Russia-World-Cup-animal-welfare-slaughter-hundreds-stray-dogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMIryvHfBTU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILL STEWART: &#8216;Russia is planning a mass slaughter of stray dogs ahead of the this year\u2019s World Cup despite assurances this will not happen, claim animal rights campaigners. Tenders worth \u00a31.4million have been signed in host cities to deploy \u201ccanine KGB\u201d deaths squads, according to Ekaterina Dmitrieva, director of the City Animal Protection Foundation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,25],"tags":[28,35],"class_list":["post-751119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-entertainment","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751121,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751119\/revisions\/751121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}