{"id":11515,"date":"2013-01-25T14:21:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11515"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:21:38","slug":"senate-bill-2211-animal-cruelty-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11515","title":{"rendered":"Senate Bill 2211 Animal Cruelty, Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3118\" title=\"Toffee\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee-262x175.jpg 262w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Supporters of a bill in the Legislature to strengthen North Dakota\u2019s animal cruelty laws say it\u2019s a more balanced approach than a measure rejected by state voters last November.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The ballot measure would have made cruelty to dogs, cats and horses a potential felony crime rather than a misdemeanor. Opponents objected to its backing by out-of-state groups and feared it could have affected routine practices by farmers and ranchers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate Bill 2211 would make animal cruelty a felony. In cases of abuse, neglect and abandonment, a first offense would be a misdemeanor and a second within five years a felony.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakotans for Responsible Animal Care Chairman Jason Schmidt says the bill is the result of two years of work by veterinarians, agriculture and animal groups, and local humane societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Supporters of a bill in the Legislature to strengthen North Dakota\u2019s animal cruelty laws say it\u2019s a more balanced approach than a measure rejected by state voters last November. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The ballot measure would have made cruelty to dogs, cats and horses a potential felony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11517,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions\/11517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}