{"id":683180,"date":"2010-03-04T22:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8fe018f970b"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:12:34","slug":"massachusetts-house-votes-to-ban-most-debarking-surgeries-in-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/683180","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts House votes to ban most debarking surgeries in pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f64d6cd970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bark\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f64d6cd970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f64d6cd970c-800wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 5px\" title=\"Bark\"><\/img><\/a> BOSTON \u2014 The Massachusetts House has voted overwhelmingly to ban the surgical &quot;debarking&quot; or silencing of dogs or cats.<\/p>\n<p>By a 150-1 vote, the House on Wednesday approved the bill which prohibits the devocalization of dogs and cats unless a licensed veterinarian certifies that the procedure is medically necessary to relieve an illness, disease or injury.<\/p>\n<p>Animal rights groups pushed for the bill, saying the practice amounts to animal cruelty and poses only risks to the pets.<\/p>\n<p>Some dog owners opt for the procedure as a last-ditch effort to try to quiet chronically barking dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the Senate.<\/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<p><em>Photo: Stephen Osman \/ Los Angeles Times <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 The Massachusetts House has voted overwhelmingly to ban the surgical &quot;debarking&quot; or silencing of dogs or cats. By a 150-1 vote, the House on Wednesday approved the bill which prohibits the devocalization of dogs and cats unless a licensed veterinarian certifies that the procedure is medically necessary to relieve an illness, disease or [&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-683180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RJ2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683180","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=683180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}