{"id":73420,"date":"2017-10-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/73420\/help-combat-rabies-by-bringing-your-pet-for-a-free-vaccination\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T12:56:33","slug":"help-combat-rabies-by-bringing-your-pet-for-a-free-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/09\/help-combat-rabies-by-bringing-your-pet-for-a-free-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Help combat rabies by getting your pet vaccinated for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vets will be available at several points in Middelburg for animals to be vaccinated over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>James Erasmus, an animal health technician involved in the vaccination programme, says that it is important for cats and dogs to be vaccinated on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-solid\"><p>Yearly vaccinations can also help pets to build up immunity against the disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs099\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rabies<\/a> is an extremely dangerous disease that can be fatal to humans. It can be transmitted to domestic animals through infected wild animals like mongooses and meerkats who often venture into residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erasmus says that such a vaccination at a private vet will cost an estimated R250.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73423\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73423\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/rabies-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/rabies-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/rabies-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: agriculture.gov.au<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The vaccination points are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 9 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Tosca Centre Kanonkop<\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Kanonkop Spar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 10 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Midwater Centre<\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Aerorand Old Friendly Grocer Centre<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 12 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Mineralia OK Grocer Centre<\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Nasaret Clinic<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 16 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 State Vet office (Near SPCA)<\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 16:00 Extension 18 park and playground<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 18 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 17:00 Alzu Depot at Middelburg Mall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pet owners are invited to bring their animals for a free rabies vaccination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7368,7971,7969,1349,7970,21966,7968,7973,5712,7972],"class_list":["post-73420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-alzu","tag-free","tag-hondsdol","tag-kanonkop-spar","tag-meerkat","tag-middelburg","tag-rabies","tag-state-vet","tag-tosca","tag-vaccination"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Alzu","free","hondsdol","Kanonkop Spar","meerkat","middelburg","rabies","state vet","tosca","vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420","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=73420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}