{"id":752501,"date":"2018-04-09T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=752501"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:40:18","slug":"uk-authorities-to-blame-for-tragic-death-of-sergei-skripals-pets-in-sealed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=752501","title":{"rendered":"UK authorities to blame for tragic death of Sergei Skripal\u2019s &#8216;pets&#8217; in sealed home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LYDIA SMITH:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;An animal rights group has blamed British authorities for the death of three of Sergei Skripal\u2019s pets at the poisoned former double agent\u2019s home. The government confirmed the long-haired black Persian cat had been found alive but \u201cin a distressed state\u201d at the house in Salisbury. Found extremely malnourished, officials said the cat was taken to the Porton Down chemical weapons laboratory for testing but it was in so much pain that a vet decided to &#8220;put it down&#8221;&#8230; A pair of guinea pigs were sealed into the property and later died.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThese deaths are another tragedy of this horrific situation, and this time, the British authorities are evidently to blame,\u201d said Elisa Allen, director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). \u201cNo one should have left these animals sealed inside the house any more than they would have done children \u2013 clearly, they should have been rescued.\u201d She added the group was \u201ccalling for an investigation to be carried out in order to determine how this was allowed to happen&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/sergei-skripal-pets-cat-guinea-pig-deaths-salisbury-nerve-agent-peta-a8292251.html\" 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\/_zi_yjteH0E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYDIA SMITH: &#8216;An animal rights group has blamed British authorities for the death of three of Sergei Skripal\u2019s pets at the poisoned former double agent\u2019s home. The government confirmed the long-haired black Persian cat had been found alive but \u201cin a distressed state\u201d at the house in Salisbury. Found extremely malnourished, officials said the cat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[27,37],"class_list":["post-752501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752501","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=752501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752503,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752501\/revisions\/752503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}