{"id":753672,"date":"2018-06-22T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753672"},"modified":"2018-06-22T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:27:32","slug":"the-messed-up-and-exploited-lives-of-famous-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753672","title":{"rendered":"The messed-up and exploited lives of &#8220;famous&#8221; animals"},"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>To be an A-list animal too often means a lifetime of abuse, neglect, torture, all in the hopes of pleasing your master, and snatching one more tasty treat.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BRIAN STEELE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Youth may be wasted on the young, but fame is definitely wasted on the animals. Whether they&#8217;re a sitcom star or a big screen scene stealer, these pups and pussy cats don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re famous. Heck, they don&#8217;t even know what fame is. How would you explain the concept of celebrity to a famous animal? And remember, you can only use the words &#8220;sit,&#8221; &#8220;stay&#8221; and &#8220;good boy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The fact is, all the benefits of making it in Hollywood, the bulging bank accounts, impossible dinner reservations and endless groupies, don&#8217;t mean a thing to our four legged friends. And when you strip the perks from the lifestyle of the rich and famous, what&#8217;s really left, but the pressure to perform, and the dire consequences if you don&#8217;t.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>To be a A-list animal too often means a lifetime of abuse, neglect, torture, all in the hopes of pleasing your master, and snatching one more tasty treat. Sadly, whether it&#8217;s Flipper or Willy the whale, Mister Ed or J. Fred Muggs, making it in Hollywood is just about the worst thing that ever happened to these famous animals&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grunge.com\/125142\/messed-up-lives-famous-animals\/\" 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\/trL-n1h_Ah4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIAN STEELE: &#8216;Youth may be wasted on the young, but fame is definitely wasted on the animals. Whether they&#8217;re a sitcom star or a big screen scene stealer, these pups and pussy cats don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re famous. Heck, they don&#8217;t even know what fame is. How would you explain the concept of celebrity to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23],"tags":[27,28,30],"class_list":["post-753672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753672","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=753672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753675,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753672\/revisions\/753675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}