{"id":354458,"date":"2010-02-23T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8c9f6ba970b"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:16:27","slug":"puppies-thrown-over-seawall-in-texas-by-man-bent-on-turning-them-into-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354458","title":{"rendered":"Puppies thrown over seawall in Texas by man bent on &#8216;turning them into soldiers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f31370c970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Puppy\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f31370c970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f31370c970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Puppy\"><\/img><\/a> Three rescued puppies are recovering after being thrown over a seawall and on to some rocks in Port Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescued the crying pups and placed the creatures with animal control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfdm.com\/news\/animal-36726-puppies-control.html\">KFDM-TV<\/a> reports the man who tossed the animals on Sunday was heard saying he was &quot;turning them into soldiers.&quot; A bystander noticed the abandoned puppies and summoned help.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Lavergnec with Port Arthur Animal Control says the puppies, with health problems such as mange, were at the shelter today and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/news\/local\/puppies_tossed_over_seawall_await_new_homes.html\">available for adoption<\/a>. She described them as a retriever mix.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the dogs, who was not immediately located, could face animal cruelty charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go:<\/strong> <strong>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>Photo: One of the rescued puppies is seen in a screenshot from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfdm.com\/video\/?videoId=68067467001&amp;lineupId=1137896012\">KFDM-TV&#8217;s video<\/a>. Credit: KFDM.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three rescued puppies are recovering after being thrown over a seawall and on to some rocks in Port Arthur. Firefighters rescued the crying pups and placed the creatures with animal control. KFDM-TV reports the man who tossed the animals on Sunday was heard saying he was &quot;turning them into soldiers.&quot; A bystander noticed the abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354458","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=354458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}