{"id":11814,"date":"2016-08-04T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11814"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:06:16","slug":"caring-for-animal-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11814","title":{"rendered":"Caring for animal welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Local Government Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said there should be a SOP on ways to handle animal welfare. He brought this up when officiating at the opening of the \u2018Animal Population Management Training Workshop\u2019 recently .<\/p>\n<p>He said there should\u00a0 be an SOP in dealing with abused animals, and\u00a0this can be challenging .<\/p>\n<p>Educating the public, especially the youth, on how to care for animals\u00a0such as pets was also important and such education should be instilled\u00a0among students, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day workshop is organised by the Sarawak Society for the\u00a0Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) as a follow-up to the \u2018Asia\u00a0for Animal Conference\u2019 (AfA) which was organised in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Also present were SSPCA chairman Rebecca D\u2019Cruz and Kuching North City\u00a0Commission (DBKU) mayor Datuk Abang Abdul Wahap Abang Julai.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim said society must be ready at all times to curb the possible\u00a0spread of disease through animals.<\/p>\n<p>He also lauded the SSPCA\u2019s effort in organizing the workshop as a\u00a0sustainable way to ensure continuity in society\u2019s efforts to protect\u00a0animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image113.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11815\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image113-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image113-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image113-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image113.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Local Government Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said there should be a SOP on ways to handle animal welfare. He brought this up when officiating at the opening of the \u2018Animal Population Management Training Workshop\u2019 recently . He said there should\u00a0 be an SOP in dealing with abused animals, and\u00a0this can be challenging . Educating the public, especially the youth, on how to care for animals\u00a0such as pets was also important and such education should be instilled\u00a0among students, he added. The three-day workshop is organised by the Sarawak<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11814\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11816,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions\/11816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}