{"id":525743,"date":"2010-04-12T23:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133eca5be1a970b"},"modified":"2010-04-12T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:26:38","slug":"pennsylvania-dog-groomer-sentenced-to-house-arrest-in-gothic-kittens-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525743","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania dog groomer sentenced to house arrest in &#8216;Gothic kittens&#8217; case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fd5ab90970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gothic Kitten\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fd5ab90970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fd5ab90970c-800wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 5px\" title=\"Gothic Kitten\"><\/img><\/a> WILKES-BARRE, Pa. \u2014 A northeastern Pennsylvania woman convicted of animal cruelty for marketing &quot;gothic kittens&quot; with ear and neck piercings has been sentenced to six months of house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County Judge Tina Polachek Gartley also ordered 35-year-old Holly Crawford of Ross Township to close her dog-grooming business for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>Gartley allowed Crawford to keep her pets, which include a dog, three cats and three snakes.<\/p>\n<p>A jury <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/02\/pennsylvania-dog-groomer-found-guilty-of-animal-cruelty-for-attempting-to-sell-gothic-kittens-online.html\">convicted Crawford in February<\/a> of animal cruelty. Prosecutors alleged that Crawford pierced three black kittens because &quot;she thought it was neat&quot; to sell Gothic kittens on the Internet. Defense attorneys argued that parents allow children to get pierced ears at young ages, and it would be wrong to hold cat owners to a higher standard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay up-to-date on animal news: 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: Screen grab showing a kitten whose tail had been banded in an effort to stop blood flow from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvaDO-rDqRU\">a video by the Associated Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILKES-BARRE, Pa. \u2014 A northeastern Pennsylvania woman convicted of animal cruelty for marketing &quot;gothic kittens&quot; with ear and neck piercings has been sentenced to six months of house arrest. Luzerne County Judge Tina Polachek Gartley also ordered 35-year-old Holly Crawford of Ross Township to close her dog-grooming business for more than two years. Gartley allowed [&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-525743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525743","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=525743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}