{"id":24447,"date":"2017-12-04T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24447"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:28:56","slug":"dont-buy-a-puppy-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24447","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Buy a Puppy for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Bird of the DSPCA talks to Noel McGuinness about buying pets at Christmas. In particular, she reminds us not to buy puppies as Christmas presents. It&#8217;s very frightening and stressful for a puppy to arrive in a new home during the excitement that occurs in most households over the festive period. Gillian also talks about the advantages of fostering an animal from the DSPCA. For more information see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dspca.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=es&amp;q=https:\/\/www.dspca.ie\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1512467239097000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFS1lz_IPIVcFcL_SDMWDQ7g9k8LQ\">https:\/\/www.dspca.ie\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4255\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4255','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.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-1-12-2017-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=24447-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:44 &#8212; 14.7MB)<\/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 buying pets at Christmas. In particular, she reminds us not to buy puppies as Christmas presents. It&#8217;s very frightening and stressful for a puppy to arrive in a new home during the excitement that occurs in most households over the festive period. Gillian also talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4256\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4256','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.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-1-12-2017-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=24447-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-1-12-2017-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:44 &#8212; 14.7MB)<\/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":24371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,33,5611,44],"tags":[609,980,8741,2152,2205,2239,8742],"class_list":["post-24447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currentaffairs","category-general","category-listenagain","category-northside-today-2","category-northside-today","tag-christmas","tag-dspca","tag-gilian-bird","tag-nearfm-2","tag-noel-mcguinness","tag-northside-today","tag-pet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447","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=24447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24448,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions\/24448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}