{"id":159,"date":"2005-08-08T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T01:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:32:48","slug":"rip-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/rip-kitty\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sorry to report that the kitten we rescued had been put to sleep. In case you haven&#8217;t been following, I wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=93\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=105\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=108\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We feel incredibly guilty for having turned him in, thinking he&#8217;d receive a good life in a nice home. Apparently he&#8217;d been just a little too aggressive for adoption, and it&#8217;s the San Jose Animal Shelter&#8217;s policy to &#8220;rid of&#8221; those that aren&#8217;t fit for living because of budget problems. I wish they&#8217;d do a spay\/neuter and release instead though&#8230; I don&#8217;t believe a government agency of any type should have a say in what\/who lives and dies. <\/p>\n<p>I have a hunch this must be what he was feeling&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sniper_cat.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" alt=\"Sniper cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sorry to report that the kitten we rescued had been put to sleep. In case you haven&#8217;t been following, I wrote about it here, here and here. We feel incredibly guilty for having turned him in, thinking he&#8217;d receive a good life in a nice home. Apparently he&#8217;d been just a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/rip-kitty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Kitty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-rant","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}