{"id":726,"date":"2017-10-13T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:59:25","slug":"dna-results-save-dog-from-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/dna-results-save-dog-from-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Results Save Dog From Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HINESBURG \u2013 A five-year old psychotherapy dog from Louisiana was spared the ignominy of deportation to a dog-rescue shelter in Vermont on Tuesday, when DNA results showed that it was actually a purebred Dachshund and not a Pit bull, as it had originally been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/22\/living\/louisiana-pit-bull-rottweiler-ban\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/22\/living\/louisiana-pit-bull-rottweiler-ban\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507982116890000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_J7Vc6sAC_qhgdbyecBH3ZBzD3Q\">classified<\/a>.\u00a0 Louisiana law demands that<em><u>\u00a0all\u00a0<\/u><\/em>Pit bulls in that state must be banished to canine-neutral jurisdictions, for reasons of public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust glad it worked out this way,\u201d said Fred Donnelly, the manager of Welcome Wags Shelter, which is located south of Burlington. \u201cWe always go out of our way to accommodate newcomers to our area but we\u00a0<em><u>were<\/u>\u00a0<\/em>getting a bit crowded. So this is a win-win.\u201d\u00a0 Donnelly explained that the mix-up probably occurred when two litters of puppies were accidentally switched at birth in the kennel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful for science,\u201d said Annabelle Fontenot, the dog\u2019s owner, who was reached at her home in Baton Rouge.\u00a0 \u201cI mean, we always thought Hercules was a mite small for a Pit bull, but we loved him just the same.\u201d The Fontenots got Hercules to assist and counsel their cat, Pumpkin, who was traumatized as a kitten, when she was found to have a severe food allergy to salmon and tuna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how she would have coped without Hercules,\u201d Annabelle said. \u201cHe is trained in the Freud method, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>HINESBURG \u2013 A five-year old psychotherapy dog from Louisiana was spared the ignominy of deportation to a dog-rescue shelter in Vermont on Tuesday, when DNA <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/dna-results-save-dog-from-deportation\/\" title=\"DNA Results Save Dog From Deportation\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[25],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-vermont-life","tag-hinesburg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TWFI-2017_10_13.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-bI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}