{"id":881,"date":"2015-01-02T00:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2015-01-02T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:48:38","slug":"long-needed-conversations-we-are-having-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/shelter-rescue\/long-needed-conversations-we-are-having-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting 2015 with Long-Needed Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIA President Patti Strand spoke on two extremely important animal welfare issues in recent NPR articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"No-Kill Shelters Save Millions Of Unwanted Pets \u2014 But Not All Of Them\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/12\/31\/374218425\/no-kill-shelters-save-millions-of-unwanted-pets-but-not-all-of-them\" target=\"_blank\">No-Kill Shelters Save Millions Of Unwanted Pets \u2014 But Not All Of Them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"With Rescue Dogs In Demand, More Shelters Look Far Afield For Fido\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/01\/01\/374257591\/with-rescue-dogs-in-demand-more-shelters-look-far-afield-for-fido\" target=\"_blank\">With Rescue Dogs In Demand, More Shelters Look Far Afield For Fido<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We strongly believe that having a serious, factual, and civil discussion about these issues will result in the improved welfare, health, and retention of pets everywhere. We are thrilled to kick\u00a0off the new year with vital issues like these!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Logo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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>We strongly believe that having a serious, factual, and civil discussion about these issues will result in the improved welfare, health, and retention of pets everywhere.<!-- 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":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}