{"id":751802,"date":"2018-03-08T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751802"},"modified":"2018-03-08T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T12:36:01","slug":"shock-and-heartbreak-after-adopted-pig-ends-up-on-dinner-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751802","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shock&#8217; and &#8216;heartbreak&#8217; after adopted pig ends up on dinner table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MALONE MULLIN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Leon Davis cared for dozens of squirming piglets after a rescue operation in Duncan, B.C. One of the 57 animals the Nanaimo SPCA branch manager nursed back to health was Molly, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who finally found her forever home last month. But just weeks after the adoption, Davis heard the news: Molly had been butchered and eaten by her new owner after problems were reported with the little pig.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;First reaction I&#8217;d say was shock. Heartbreak. You know, all the animals that come through our care or branches we get attached to,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;To hear that somebody did this to an animal that we worked so hard to make sure was healthy, and tried to get into a good home, is absolutely heartbreaking&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Although Molly&#8217;s owner was vetted by the SPCA \u2014 and signed a contract specifically stating that the pet couldn&#8217;t be killed or consumed \u2014 Davis said it&#8217;s not a criminal offence to breach that contract. Animal cruelty laws only apply when an animal suffers, he said, and investigators found that Molly was killed humanely&#8217;<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/molly-the-pig-1.4550000\" 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\/2AlCKqhYV6g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALONE MULLIN: &#8216;Leon Davis cared for dozens of squirming piglets after a rescue operation in Duncan, B.C. One of the 57 animals the Nanaimo SPCA branch manager nursed back to health was Molly, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who finally found her forever home last month. But just weeks after the adoption, Davis heard the news: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,20,25],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-751802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751802","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=751802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751804,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751802\/revisions\/751804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}