{"id":104726,"date":"2019-11-11T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=104726"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:35:20","slug":"puppies-found-dead-reports-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/11\/puppies-found-dead-reports-animal-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppies found dead after reports of animal cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned residents from the neighbourhood blew the whistle on the owner of the home, informing <b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0that five puppies were dead, and two others in very weak condition.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Middelburg SPCA was contacted, but declined to comment stating that the matter is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Video material was made available to\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>, showing how a weak puppy was lifted from the floor and rushed away for medical attention.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Oh0yMEgcAxU' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middelburg SPCA as well as members of the SAPS were called to rescue a litter of severely neglected puppies from a home in Aerorand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":104727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7713,21848,21849,10797,10010,12898,5407,21850,21851,10333],"class_list":["post-104726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-neglect","tag-animal-rescue","tag-cruelty-to-animals","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-spca","tag-puppies-rescued-from-aerorand-home","tag-spca-rescues-neglected-dogs-at-aerorand-home","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["animal cruelty","animal neglect","animal rescue","cruelty to animals","local news","middelburg news","Middelburg SPCA","puppies rescued from aerorand home","spca rescues neglected dogs at aerorand home","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}