{"id":451,"date":"2010-08-16T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2010-08-16T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:33:12","slug":"docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Docking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought to my dog, Wiki. I was hesitant about getting a dog with no tail. His tail was viciously chopped off when he was a puppy for hunting purposes, I&#8217;m sure. I&#8217;ve been watching his tail, hoping one day it could grow back but they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia (not my dog, the online encyclopedia of which Wiki was named), they do it so the dogs don&#8217;t get hurt during hunting, to prevent rabies, and to make them faster. I just think it&#8217;s a cruel practice that should be made illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Almost ALL first world countries ban it with some exceptions. A lot of other countries that you would think wouldn&#8217;t care also ban it. However, it&#8217;s legal in the United States. We&#8217;re in the same group as Afghanistan, Argentina, Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Malaysia, etc. I have been wanting to blog about what&#8217;s wrong with America. Docking is definitely on there now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought to my dog, Wiki. I was hesitant about getting a dog with no tail. His tail was viciously chopped off when he was a puppy for hunting purposes, I&#8217;m sure. I&#8217;ve been watching his tail, hoping one day it could grow back but they don&#8217;t. According to Wikipedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,3,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-family","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}