{"id":753497,"date":"2018-06-07T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753497"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:28:19","slug":"a-teacher-who-fed-a-puppy-to-a-turtle-in-front-of-students-was-charged-with-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753497","title":{"rendered":"A Teacher Who Fed A Puppy To A Turtle In Front Of Students Was Charged With Animal Cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The puppy wasn't the only animal to die. Two weeks later, state officials took and euthanized the snapping turtle.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TALAL ANSARI:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>A junior high school science teacher in Idaho has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students. Robert Crosland, a teacher at Preston Junior High School in Eastern Idaho, was charged on Friday with one count of animal cruelty&#8230; If convicted, he could face up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The puppy wasn&#8217;t the only animal to die. Two weeks later, state officials took and euthanized Crosland&#8217;s snapping turtle, as it is an invasive species in the state of Idaho&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In a Facebook post that has since been taken down, one parent who said two of her children were present didn&#8217;t oppose Crosland&#8217;s alleged actions&#8230; In a statement released in March, the animal rights group PETA called Crosland &#8220;a bully who should not be allowed near impressionable young people.&#8221; Nearly 190,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Crosland to be fired, while a petition supporting Crosland has been signed by nearly 5,000 people&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/talalansari\/idaho-teacher-fed-puppy-to-turtle\" 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\/NLyr_zYL6Aw?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALAL ANSARI: &#8216;A junior high school science teacher in Idaho has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students. Robert Crosland, a teacher at Preston Junior High School in Eastern Idaho, was charged on Friday with one count of animal cruelty&#8230; If convicted, he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,25],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-753497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753497","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=753497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753499,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753497\/revisions\/753499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}