{"id":24481,"date":"2020-11-05T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/tiny-japanese-home-filled-with-164-starving-dogs"},"modified":"2020-11-05T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:22:05","slug":"tiny-japanese-home-filled-with-164-starving-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24481","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Japanese home &#8216;filled&#8217; with 164 starving dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say extreme animal hoarding cases are linked to poverty, isolation and ageing population<\/p>\n<p>Health officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house, in the latest case of animal hoarding that experts say is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jan\/17\/japans-rising-child-poverty-exposes-truth-behind-two-decades-of-economic-decline\">linked to poverty<\/a>, isolation and the ageing population.<\/p>\n<p>The parasite-infested animals were found in a 30 square-metre (323 square feet) house in Izumo, a city in western Japan, last month following complaints from neighbours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/tiny-japanese-home-filled-with-164-starving-dogs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say extreme animal hoarding cases are linked to poverty, isolation and ageing populationHealth officials in Japan have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house, in the latest case of animal hoarding that experts say is linked to pover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,41,88,1747,958,552,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-loneliness","category-poverty","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24481\/revisions\/24482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}