{"id":286,"date":"2007-09-02T04:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T08:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2007-09-02T04:34:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T08:34:48","slug":"286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/02\/286\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cruelty People Subject to Animals Knows No Boundaries But Their Compassion Can Be Limitless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-29236120070830\">Heroin-addict elephant to rejoin herd after rehab<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will soon return to the wild after being weaned off his addiction through methadone and round-the-clock care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big Brother&#8221;, a bull elephant that once &#8220;lived peacefully&#8221; with his herd near the China-Myanmar border in Yunnan province, was caught by traders in 2005, the China Daily said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To control it so that it could lead the herd to where they wanted, the traders kept feeding it bananas laced with drugs,&#8221; the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>The traders, however, were caught trying to sell Big Brother and his herd after a tip-off to forest police.<\/p>\n<p>By that time Big Brother had developed a raging heroin addiction and posed a danger to people if denied its fix, the paper said, citing police.<\/p>\n<p>A drooling and twitching Big Brother had to be transported to a special park in the neighbouring island province of Hainan for treatment, after cold turkey proved so tortuous at a local centre that &#8220;even its iron chain could not contain it&#8221;, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>After being diagnosed a heroin addict, park authorities in Hainan spent a year gradually weaning &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; off its dependence through methadone, regular bathing and massage.<\/p>\n<p>Now clean, Big Brother will soon be returned home, the paper said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroin-addict elephant to rejoin herd after rehab A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will soon return to the wild after being weaned off his addiction through methadone and round-the-clock care. &#8220;Big Brother&#8221;, a bull elephant that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/02\/286\/\">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":[37],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}