{"id":1266,"date":"2013-02-06T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-02-06T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:34:24","slug":"man-decides-his-dog-is-gay-sends-dog-to-kill-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/02\/06\/man-decides-his-dog-is-gay-sends-dog-to-kill-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Man decides his dog is &#8220;gay,&#8221; sends dog to kill shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Name any dog owner who hasn&#8217;t noted that their beloved pet will, on occasion, hump nearly anything. Sure, some dogs are worse than others in this regard, but, they&#8217;re dogs. They occasionally hump.<\/p>\n<p>We once owned a Rat Terrier named Lucy who claimed one of my slippers. She&#8217;d &#8220;go to town&#8221; on it every morning. I purchased new slippers. I certainly didn&#8217;t do this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bulldog that was sent to a kill shelter when its owner suspected it of being a homosexual has been adopted and saved from\u00a0euthanasia, thanks to the power of the\u00a0Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least the dog was adopted. Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis guy was signed over to [Jackson Rabies Control], not [because] he\u2019s mean or [because] he tears things up, but because \u2026 [h]is owner says he\u2019s gay!\u201d the caption under the photo explained. \u201cHe hunched [sic] another male dog so his owner threw him away [because] he refuses to have a \u2018gay\u2019 dog! Even if that weren\u2019t the most\u00a0assinine [sic]\u00a0thing I\u2019ve ever heard, it\u2019s still discrimination!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope the man doesn&#8217;t get another dog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlotte.cbslocal.com\/2013\/01\/31\/owner-sends-dog-to-kill-shelter-for-being-gay\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Name any dog owner who hasn&#8217;t noted that their beloved pet will, on occasion, hump nearly anything. Sure, some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}