{"id":156,"date":"2012-05-09T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-05-09T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:29:52","slug":"united-airlines-lifts-breed-ban-chipping-away-at-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/animal-policy\/united-airlines-lifts-breed-ban-chipping-away-at-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Lifts Breed Ban: Chipping Away at Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a victory for common sense,\u00a0<a title=\"United Airlines lifts ban on nine dog breeds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-united-air-lines-dogs-20120508,0,5146370.story\" target=\"_blank\">United Airlines has lifted its ban on transporting nine breeds of dogs<\/a>. Previously, the following breeds and mixes were banned from flying the friendly skies:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>\u00a0Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, Presa Canario, Perro de Presa Canario, Dogo Argentino, Cane Corso, Fila Brasileiro, Tosa (or Tosa Ken) and Ca de Bou.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pet loving customers spoke out &#8212; loudly &#8212; and a company listened. Just think how this could apply elsewhere! What a great accomplishment for pet owners and their dogs, and also in the larger effort of chipping away at breed discrimination. Way to go!<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\">\n<dl id=\"\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BongoJumps.jpg\" alt=\"Bongo Jumps for Joy\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">&#8220;Looks like I don&#8217;t have to learn to fly, after all!&#8221;<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pet loving customers spoke out &#8212; loudly &#8212; and a company listened. Just think how this could apply elsewhere!<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}