{"id":116,"date":"2012-10-20T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-10-19T22:27:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T03:27:35","slug":"dogs-abused-with-homeopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2012\/10\/dogs-abused-with-homeopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Abused with Homeopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mc69duQgam1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/>One of the worst things about pseudoscience is that adults using it, will endanger other lives as well &#8211; kids and animals haven&#8217;t gotten the rational skills nor the necessary elements of judgement \u00a0in order to choose for themselves to try junk science, and take responsability for their actions.<\/p>\n<p>But mumbo jumbo belivers don&#8217;t care; like this brit woman who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledburyreporter.co.uk\/news\/9990669.Woman_who_used_homeopathy_on_dogs_banned_from_keeping_animals\/?ref=twtrec\">convicted of animal abuse<\/a>, because she refused to take her dogs to the vet, and instead &#8216;treated&#8217; them with homeopathy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A WOMAN who used homeopathy instead of taking her dogs to a vet has been banned from keeping animals for three years.<\/p>\n<p>When the RSPCA received a call about Susan Lambert\u2019s dogs, the 54-year-old claimed her two German Shepherds were suffering from a skin condition because they had been burnt by the sulphuric acid that a farmer had sprayed on nearby fields.<\/p>\n<p>She was advised to seek veterinary treatment, but refused saying she would continue to use homeopathy.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, an RSPCA officer returned to find the dogs\u2019 conditions had rapidly deteriorated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"OAS_Left2\">\u00a0Five-year-old male K had lost half his fur, while eight-year-old female Tee (pictured) was almost completely bald.<\/div>\n<p>Eventually the RSCPA and police attended Lambert\u2019s address in\u00a0Colwallto seize the animals.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken to a vet who found that parasitic mites had burrowed into the dogs\u2019 skin and caused severe mange.<\/p>\n<p>At Hereford Magistrates\u2019 Court last week, Gaynor Sutton, prosecuting for the RSPCA, said Lambert had been \u201cdifficult to deal with\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert had accused the RSPCA of harassment and, when police called at her house, initially refused to let them in.<\/p>\n<p>She was been found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to animals during a hearing at Hereford Magistrates last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame these dogs got such a careless person to take care of them. And kudos to the Magistrates!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elcorreo.com\/magonia\/2012\/10\/19\/condenada-en-reino-unido-una-mujer-por-tratar-a-sus-perros-con-homeopatia-sin-consultar-al-veterinario\/\"><em>Magonia<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst things about pseudoscience is that adults using it, will endanger other lives as well &#8211; kids&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,53,55,17,52],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animal-abuse","tag-homeopathy","tag-justice","tag-pseudoscience-antiscience","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}