{"id":1943,"date":"2019-04-02T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:29:38","slug":"jordan-circus-responds-to-exotic-animal-ban-brings-dogs-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/2019\/04\/02\/jordan-circus-responds-to-exotic-animal-ban-brings-dogs-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Circus Responds to \u2018Exotic\u2019 Animal Ban: Brings Dogs, Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corvallisadvocate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jordan-Cruelty.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.corvallisadvocate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jordan-Cruelty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24737\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n controversial Jordan World Circus will be back in Corvallis April 11, \nbut there won\u2019t be any elephants or tigers, Benton County doesn\u2019t allow \nthat sort of thing anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to concerns from area animal rights activists, Benton \nCounty Commissioners last year passed ordinances banning exotic animal \nacts. Activists had worked the last few years to inform the area \nelectorate about their concerns, efforts that included protests at \ncircus events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with the County\u2019s exotic animal act ban, Jordan World Circus will apparently still be brining horses and dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the U.S. \nDepartment of Agriculture revoked Jordan World Circus\u2019s license to \nexhibit animals, forcing the Las Vegas based company to rent their \nanimals from the Carson &amp; Barnes Circus based in Hugo, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it is a common practice for circuses to rent and swap their \nanimals from one company to another, 11 citations from the USDA were \nissued to Carson &amp; Barnes Circus regarding the treatment of their \nanimals, according to PETA. Three of the USDA citations referred to \nelephants either not receiving proper veterinary care, or the circus \nfailing to provide documentation regarding proper veterinary care. One \nrecent citation of Carson &amp; Barnes detailed an elephant escaping \nfrom its leg restraints and wondering into a residential neighborhood in\n Baraboo, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial Jordan World Circus will be back in Corvallis April 11, but there won\u2019t be any elephants or tigers, Benton County doesn\u2019t allow that sort of thing anymore. Responding to concerns from area animal rights activists, Benton County Commissioners last year passed ordinances banning exotic animal acts. Activists had worked the last few years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,7599,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}