{"id":755397,"date":"2018-11-28T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755397"},"modified":"2018-11-28T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:24:41","slug":"ikea-in-italy-welcomes-stray-dogs-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755397","title":{"rendered":"Ikea in Italy welcomes stray dogs this winter"},"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 Swedish furniture company partnered with pet charities as part of their 'Home for Hope' campaign to encourage the adoption of stray animals.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quote-author-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ARK_Center.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"quote-author-name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEditor\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"quote-author-job\">The ARK Center<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUY DAVIES:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;An Ikea in Italy has set the internet alight by providing a home for stray dogs during the freezing winter months. Social media users praised the shop\u2019s open-door policy for strays in Catania, Italy, after video and photos of the dogs circulated online. In addition to providing the dogs rugs to sleep on, shop staff also have groomed and fed the dogs. Some of the strays have even been adopted by shop workers in the store on Sicily\u2019s eastern coast&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Italian store followed a similar policy seen in Ikea outlets in the United States. The Swedish furniture company partnered with pet charities as part of their &#8220;Home for Hope&#8221; campaign to encourage the adoption of stray animals&#8230; They have also provided professional photography sessions for the strays and placed their images in various showrooms, according to the green design and lifestyle website Inhabitat&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/ikea-italy-welcomes-stray-dogs-winter\/story?id=59315315\" 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\/24NvWYPbGlk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUY DAVIES: &#8216;An Ikea in Italy has set the internet alight by providing a home for stray dogs during the freezing winter months. Social media users praised the shop\u2019s open-door policy for strays in Catania, Italy, after video and photos of the dogs circulated online. In addition to providing the dogs rugs to sleep on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,21,25],"tags":[26,32,35],"class_list":["post-755397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-kisnship","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-free-living","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755397","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=755397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755399,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755397\/revisions\/755399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}