{"id":34884,"date":"2015-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/34884\/these-pigs-dont-rock\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:17:43","slug":"these-pigs-dont-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/23\/these-pigs-dont-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"These pigs don&#8217;t rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Inspector Petro Oberholzer (Manager Middelburg SPCA) said that the animals live in squalor.<\/p>\n<p>The water they are drinking is contaminated with sewage. The problem has its origin of raw sewage running into the water stream where they are drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Their food is also contaminated, as the sewage water is used in the preparing of their food.<\/p>\n<p>On her arrival she also had to euthanize one of the pigs because it was covered with mange, and could not walk because it was malnourished.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the animals had mange and it was clear that old car oil was rubbed onto the animals&#8217; skin in an effort to combat the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Oberholzer said that this method does not help and that <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/34553\/shock-animal-cruelty-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">animals need medication<\/a> when they have mange.<\/p>\n<p>Read related stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/34553\/shock-animal-cruelty-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Warning not for sensitive viewers) &#8211; Video: Shocking animal cruelty<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34885\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/09\/15kk13-2_57276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34885\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/09\/15kk13-2_57276-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"There is raw sewage in the water that the pigs have to drink.\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/09\/15kk13-2_57276-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/09\/15kk13-2_57276-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/09\/15kk13-2_57276.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is raw sewage in the water that the pigs have to drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middelburg SPCA wants to take hands with the councillor of Rockdale regarding a serious problem with stray pigs in the field at the back of Rockdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":34886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}