{"id":267389,"date":"2010-02-02T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8498e26970b"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:12:49","slug":"groomer-who-sold-gothic-kittens-online-goes-to-trial-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267389","title":{"rendered":"Groomer who sold &#8216;gothic kittens&#8217; online goes to trial in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Mzjsto589MQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Mzjsto589MQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>WILKES-BARRE, Pa. &#8212; A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is heading to trial on animal cruelty charges for marketing &quot;gothic kittens&quot; with ear and neck piercings over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five-year-old dog groomer Holly Crawford is scheduled for trial Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say she inflicted pain on the cats to make money. Attorneys for Crawford say she didn&#8217;t act maliciously.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford&#8217;s home outside Wilkes-Barre was raided in December 2008 after the SPCA of Luzerne County received a tip that she was marketing the animals online for hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford said she used sterilized needles and made sure the kittens were healing properly. She said she wasn&#8217;t trying to hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: A Pennsylvania news organization&#8217;s report on the seizure of &quot;gothic kittens&quot; from Crawford&#8217;s home in December 2008. Credit: timesleadervideo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/timesleadervideo\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILKES-BARRE, Pa. &#8212; A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is heading to trial on animal cruelty charges for marketing &quot;gothic kittens&quot; with ear and neck piercings over the Internet. Thirty-five-year-old dog groomer Holly Crawford is scheduled for trial Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre. Prosecutors say she inflicted pain on the cats to make money. Attorneys for Crawford say she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}