{"id":20284,"date":"2016-12-05T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20284"},"modified":"2016-12-07T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:32:23","slug":"dspca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20284","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Buy a Pet Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Bird of the DSPCA talks to Noel McGuinness about the importance of not buying pets online. She says that following the recent upsurge of incidents of puppy trafficking, the DSPCA urges people to \u201cAdopt Don\u2019t Buy\u201d a pet this Christmas. This appeal is part of their campaign to prevent trafficking and to provide a second chance to the many pets at the DSPCA rescue centre. She says that people should be aware of the conditions many of these animals are raised in. You can read tips on how to avoid a puppy farm dog on the DSPCA website \u2013 see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dspca.ie\/index.jsp?p=153&#038;n=216&#038;a=151\">www.dspca.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2410\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2410','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=20284-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:58 &#8212; 15.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Bird of the DSPCA talks to Noel McGuinness about the importance of not buying pets online. She says that following the recent upsurge of incidents of puppy trafficking, the DSPCA urges people to \u201cAdopt Don\u2019t Buy\u201d a pet this Christmas. This appeal is part of their campaign to prevent trafficking and to provide a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2411\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2411','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=20284-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-2-12-2016-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:58 &#8212; 15.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[5840,980,5446,2205],"class_list":["post-20284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-dont-buy-a-pet-online","tag-dspca","tag-gillian-bird","tag-noel-mcguinness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20307,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions\/20307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}