{"id":2038,"date":"2009-03-10T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2009-03-10T02:24:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:24:41","slug":"ear-crop-tail-dock-policy-not-a-radical-departure-avma-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/ear-crop-tail-dock-policy-not-a-radical-departure-avma-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear crop, tail dock policy not a radical departure, AVMA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Science doesn&#8217;t show therapeutic benefits of cosmetic procedures<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It isn&#8217;t often the AVMA is on the receiving end of kudos from the Humane Society of the United States. But there it was, in the Letters to the Editor section of the JAVMA (Feb. 1, 2009), a missive from the society&#8217;s veterinary component commending the AVMA for taking a stand against cosmetic ear cropping and tail docking of dogs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a strong statement in opposition to these procedures when performed for nontherapeutic purposes,&#8221; wrote Dr. Barbara Hodges on behalf of the Humane Society VMA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/mar09\/090315c.asp\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science doesn&#8217;t show therapeutic benefits of cosmetic procedures It isn&#8217;t often the AVMA is on the receiving end of kudos from the Humane Society of the United States. But there it was, in the Letters to the Editor section of the JAVMA (Feb. 1, 2009), a missive from the society&#8217;s veterinary component commending the AVMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}