{"id":78,"date":"2006-12-18T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-12-18T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T21:31:00","slug":"this-is-why-we-are-where-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/this-is-why-we-are-where-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why we are where we are!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following comment today regarding my &#8220;Ontario Bans Pit Bulls&#8221; article. This text is copied and pasted from the original comment, including all spelling and grammatical errors.<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Guest what? I&#8217;m breeding pittbulls because i have a male and a female pitt bull and they are having puppies. You can&#8217;t do nothing about it Ha Ha.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, this person must not have read much else on this blog or they&#8217;d have no doubts that I&#8217;m AGAINST the legislation and I&#8217;m certainly not running around trying to find secret breeders.<\/p>\n<p>To clarify:<\/p>\n<p>I am against mandatory spay\/neuter of all dogs. I am most definitely against mandatory spay\/neuter for specific breeds. I am in favour of public education regarding unnecessary breeding, unhealthy breeding, and puppy mills. I am somewhat in favour of financial incentives to spay\/neuter, but I&#8217;m still not sure about that one.<\/p>\n<p>I actually end up fighting unwillingly for this owner&#8217;s right to breed dogs because of the need to fight for the right of responsible people to breed dogs.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this person realizes the potential consequences of their actions if they get caught: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory death for both parent dogs.<\/li>\n<li>Mandatory death for the puppies.<\/li>\n<li>Charges to the owners under the Dog Owners&#8217; Liability Act with penalties of up to $10,000 in fines and up to six months in jail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope it&#8217;s worth the risk to you and your dogs, buddy.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following comment today regarding my &#8220;Ontario Bans Pit Bulls&#8221; article. This text is copied and pasted from the original comment, including all spelling and grammatical errors. &#8220;Guest what? I&#8217;m breeding pittbulls because i have a male and a female pitt bull and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,8,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-ontario","category-pit-bulls","category-responsible-ownership","category-strange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}