{"id":24,"date":"2012-01-28T03:19:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T03:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-02-26T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:20:12","slug":"breed-specific-legislation-killing-dogs-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/animal-policy\/breed-specific-legislation-killing-dogs-and-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Breed Specific Legislation Killing Dogs&#8230; and People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a condo&#8217;s tough restrictions against pit bulls and harassment by neighbors and management left actor Nick Santino feeling that he had no choice but to put his dog Rocco down,\u00a0<a title=\"Soap actor commits suicide after pup's 'forced' euthanasia  Read more: http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/doggone_shame_1a9XYW8u9ZLlqwRJTa6jrN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/doggone_shame_1a9XYW8u9ZLlqwRJTa6jrN\" target=\"_self\">the guilt-ridden owner took his own life as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His suicide note bares the anguish of the decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn\u2019t deserve this.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No dog or dog owner deserves to go through this. What a tragic reminder of the pain and suffering wrought by breed specific prejudice. Would this man and his dog be dead right now if Rocco hadn&#8217;t been a pit bull mix? If Rocco hadn&#8217;t faced restrictions and harassment because of his breed? You don&#8217;t need a Magic 8-Ball to answer that one; it&#8217;s a safe bet that management didn&#8217;t require Yorkie owners to enter and exit the building through the back door.<\/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>After a condo&#8217;s tough restrictions against pit bulls and harassment by neighbors and management left actor Nick Santino feeling that he had no choice but to put his dog Rocco down,\u00a0the guilt-ridden owner took his own life as well. His suicide note bares the anguish of the decision: Today I betrayed my best friend and [&hellip;]<!-- 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":1,"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\/24"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}