{"id":754888,"date":"2018-10-05T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754888"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:45:56","slug":"delaware-governor-signs-bill-extending-animal-cruelty-laws-to-homeless-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754888","title":{"rendered":"Delaware governor signs bill extending animal cruelty laws to homeless cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JACI SMITH:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The free-roaming cats of Delaware have a friend in Gov. John Carney. Surrounded by feline \u2013 and human \u2013 supporters, Carney signed into law on Monday a bill that gives stray cats the same protection as domestic ones&#8230; It allows shelters to house strays beyond the typical stray hold timeline, supports a sterilization and vaccination program for the animals and ensures that animal cruelty laws are applied equally to cats without a home or owner. Perhaps the governor was also on the lookout for a new brother or sister for his three cats, Bo, Buster and Shady&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2018\/10\/02\/gov-john-carney-signs-bill-extending-animal-cruelty-laws-stray-cats\/1496672002\/\" 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\/Iv7KwzMBcgQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACI SMITH: &#8216;The free-roaming cats of Delaware have a friend in Gov. John Carney. Surrounded by feline \u2013 and human \u2013 supporters, Carney signed into law on Monday a bill that gives stray cats the same protection as domestic ones&#8230; It allows shelters to house strays beyond the typical stray hold timeline, supports a sterilization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,25],"tags":[27,32,35],"class_list":["post-754888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-free-living","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754888","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=754888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754890,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754888\/revisions\/754890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}