{"id":66,"date":"2006-10-10T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-10-10T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:38:00","slug":"yarmouth-ns-not-anti-breed-just-anti-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/yarmouth-ns-not-anti-breed-just-anti-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarmouth, NS: Not anti-breed, just anti-dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh! Another example of the movement by politicians towards completely isolating dog owners from the rest of society. Another town to add to my list of places in Canada I choose not to visit.<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><br \/>Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is considering banning ALL dogs from the town&#8217;s Main Street and possibly from the entire downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the town state that the measure is necessary because of &#8220;pooping without scooping&#8221;, because &#8220;many people feel uncomfortable and nervous around dogs&#8221;, because of &#8220;how dogs react when they meet other dogs&#8221;, and because &#8220;getting rid of the dogs would solve the issue of loitering&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yarmouth has already banned ALL dogs from Department of Leisure facilities &#8220;when people are present&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s easier to ban than it is to enforce existing laws.  The concept is identical to breed banning, penalizing responsible owners, who are the vast majority, for the irresponsible actions of a few.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevanguard.ca\/index.cfm?iid=1876&#038;sid=14184\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole story here<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh! Another example of the movement by politicians towards completely isolating dog owners from the rest of society. Another town to add to my list of places in Canada I choose not to visit.Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is considering banning ALL dogs from the town&#8217;s Main&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}