{"id":380,"date":"2005-02-07T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2005-02-07T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T14:24:07","slug":"west-hollywood-may-ban-cosmetic-surgery-for-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/07\/west-hollywood-may-ban-cosmetic-surgery-for-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"West Hollywood May Ban Cosmetic Surgery for Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-animal7feb07,0,6381322,print.story?coll=la-home-local\">LA Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>Cosmetic surgery may be all the rage in Southern California, but one Westside community is considering banning it \u00d1 for animals.<\/p>\n<p>The city is pet-friendly West Hollywood. And at today&#8217;s meeting of the City Council, Mayor John Duran will introduce a motion to ban the cropping of animals&#8217; ears, docking of their tails, surgical procedures to silence them, defanging and other operations performed for &#8220;noncurative&#8221; reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Such procedures, which Duran and others believe are painful, purely cosmetic or serve only the desires of pet owners, are banned in a number of European nations. If passed, West Hollywood&#8217;s ordinance would be the first of its kind in the United States, Duran said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;West Hollywood has had a historic record of enacting progressive policies regarding the care and welfare of animals,&#8221; said City Councilman Jeffrey Prang, co-sponsor of the motion.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, dogs and other pets in West Hollywood may think they&#8217;ve died and gone to heaven. Four years ago, the city ruled that its pets don&#8217;t have owners; they have human &#8220;guardians.&#8221; Next, the 2-square-mile city became what was believed to be the first in North America to ban the declawing of cats and other animals. Last year, it began regulating the pet-grooming industry, making sure animals had fresh water and requiring local practitioners to report grooming-related injuries within 24 hours.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: Cosmetic surgery may be all the rage in Southern California, but one Westside community is considering banning it \u00d1 for animals. The city is pet-friendly West Hollywood. And at today&#8217;s meeting of the City Council, Mayor John Duran will introduce a motion to ban the cropping of animals&#8217; ears, docking of their tails, surgical procedures to silence them, defanging and other operations performed for &#8220;noncurative&#8221; reasons. Such procedures, which Duran and others believe are painful, purely cosmetic or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-68","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}