{"id":3152,"date":"2010-03-23T23:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2010-03-23T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:52:32","slug":"dog-debarking-bill-is-under-consideration-in-mass-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/dog-debarking-bill-is-under-consideration-in-mass-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog-debarking bill is under consideration in Mass. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio outlawed the practice of debarking vicious canines a decade ago, and Massachusetts may follow suit as the Senate in that state considers similar legislation. According to this article, AVMA says debarking should only be used &#8220;as a final alternative after behavioral modification efforts to correct excessive vocalization have failed.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatchpolitics.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2010\/03\/22\/copy\/massachusetts-may-ban-surgery-to-hush-dogs.html?adsec=politics&#038;sid=101\">The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio outlawed the practice of debarking vicious canines a decade ago, and Massachusetts may follow suit as the Senate in that state considers similar legislation. According to this article, AVMA says debarking should only be used &#8220;as a final alternative after behavioral modification efforts to correct excessive vocalization have failed.&#8221; The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}