{"id":284,"date":"2007-08-30T03:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-08-30T03:30:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T07:30:46","slug":"284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/284\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Fighting Everywhere in Sports World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe, not everywhere but certainly in Ireland. Before the Vick dog-fighting confession in the U.S., there was Gerard Cavlan, a Tyrone Gaelic footballer, who was found by the Ulster SPCA to be involved with dog fighting. The BBC now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/northern_ireland\/6969651.stm\">reports<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Tyrone GAA star is a major figure in the illegal world of dog fighting, a BBC Spotlight investigation has found. Gerard Cavlan, an all-Ireland medal winner, is a senior figure in a County Armagh dog fighting operation known as The Bulldog Sanctuary Kennels. The 17-month investigation, led by reporter Mandy McAuley, uncovered 15 illegal dog fighting gangs in NI. Earlier this year, Cavlan, from Dungannon, was convicted of possessing a dangerous dog and fined \u00a3650. In April, his solicitor told Dungannon Magistrates Court that Cavlan had merely collected the dog from kennels for a Dublin man and was not involved in any other illegal activities. However, with the aid of a trained undercover operative and secret filming, the Spotlight team discovered that this was not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Grumpy Vegan concludes that it&#8217;s not only male dogs who should be castrated for their own good &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe, not everywhere but certainly in Ireland. Before the Vick dog-fighting confession in the U.S., there was Gerard Cavlan, a Tyrone Gaelic footballer, who was found by the Ulster SPCA to be involved with dog fighting. The BBC now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/284\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-companion-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}