{"id":754167,"date":"2018-08-08T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754167"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:09:19","slug":"death-by-command-bad-dogs-die-young-many-from-euthanasia-birtish-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754167","title":{"rendered":"Death by command: &#8220;Bad&#8221; dogs die young, many from euthanasia, British study says"},"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>One in three deaths in U.K. dogs younger than 3 years old was from 'undesirable' behaviors. Aggression, excessive barking and disobedience are among behaviors that can doom canine pets to an early demise.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AP:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;According to a British study that says aggression, excessive barking and disobedience are among behaviors that can doom canine pets to an early demise. One in three deaths in U.K. dogs younger than 3 years old was from \u201cundesirable\u201d behaviors, a disproportionately high number, the study found. Euthanasia was the most common cause of those deaths \u2014 75 percent overall. Traffic accidents involving disobedient dogs were another common cause.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The study involved data on 264,000 U.K. dogs, and the results underscore the importance of training dogs and educating owners, the researchers said&#8230; Males, mixed-breed dogs, and small dogs weighing less than 22 pounds (10 kilograms) were more prone to early deaths from misbehavior than females, larger dogs and purebreds&#8230; Certain breeds faced higher risks of behavior-related deaths including cocker spaniels and Staffordshire bull terriers, similar to American pit bulls&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/animals-pets\/2018\/07\/bad-dogs-die-young-many-from-euthanasia-british-study-says\/\" 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\/CJ3SRlgYsCg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: &#8216;According to a British study that says aggression, excessive barking and disobedience are among behaviors that can doom canine pets to an early demise. One in three deaths in U.K. dogs younger than 3 years old was from \u201cundesirable\u201d behaviors, a disproportionately high number, the study found. Euthanasia was the most common cause of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,23,25],"tags":[27,37],"class_list":["post-754167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754167","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=754167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754173,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754167\/revisions\/754173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}