{"id":656307,"date":"2010-02-05T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287768f9f3970c"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:23:48","slug":"rhode-island-man-charged-with-animal-cruelty-for-performing-an-operation-on-his-own-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656307","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island man charged with animal cruelty for performing an operation on his own dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nO8ha4hM_ZQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>BARRINGTON, R.I. \u2014 A Rhode Island man who says he couldn&#8217;t afford medical care for his dog has been charged with illegally operating on the pet.<\/p>\n<p>Alan MacQuattie recently removed a cyst from the leg of his 14-year-old Labrador mix. The dog was operated on again by professionals to deal with an infection from the first surgery.<\/p>\n<p>E.J. Finocchio, a veterinarian and president of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, calls the surgery a &quot;heinous crime.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Court records show MacQuattie pleaded no contest last week to misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty and unauthorized practice of veterinary medicine.<\/p>\n<p>A phone listing for MacQuattie could not be found. But he told WPRI-TV, which first reported on the surgery, that he didn&#8217;t think there was anything cruel about what he had done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARRINGTON, R.I. \u2014 A Rhode Island man who says he couldn&#8217;t afford medical care for his dog has been charged with illegally operating on the pet. Alan MacQuattie recently removed a cyst from the leg of his 14-year-old Labrador mix. The dog was operated on again by professionals to deal with an infection from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KJB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}