{"id":20,"date":"2013-12-21T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-12-21T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:16:12","slug":"pets-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Pets for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1026px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2161\/2093907910_8790ea6d4b_o.jpg\" width=\"1026\" height=\"1280\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is not my old cat, though it looks exactly like him. Via creative commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Humane Society is re-thinking a long standing rule against adopting out animals in the weeks surrounding Christmas. The thought was people would give pets as gifts to people who don&#8217;t want them, and they&#8217;d end up back at the shelter.<\/p>\n<p>This year, many shelters have decided to actually run promotions throughout the holiday season.\u00a0 Shelters workers say they have rarely, if ever seen animals returned after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>There are many amazing animals available right now. If you were waiting till after the holidays because you thought there was an adoption moratorium,\u00a0 guess what, you&#8217;re in luck! Please make sure that you follow adoption protocol, and if you&#8217;re adopting for someone else, just forgo the surprise and let them know ahead of time. Take them to the shelter with you, or perhaps write them a check for the adoption fee and stick it in a card!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petfinder.com\/\">Petfinder<\/a> is a great resource for finding shelter pets.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen\u00a0 more about this on MPBN:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpbn.net\/Home\/tabid\/36\/ctl\/ViewItem\/mid\/5347\/ItemId\/31446\/Default.aspx\"> Giving Pets For the Holidays, a Good or Bad Idea? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humane Society is re-thinking a long standing rule against adopting out animals in the weeks surrounding Christmas. The thought was people would give pets as gifts to people who don&#8217;t want them, and they&#8217;d end up back at the shelter. This year, many shelters have decided to actually run promotions throughout the holiday season.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pets for Christmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,7,2,6],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-maine","tag-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}