{"id":50260,"date":"2022-11-16T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/16\/fiji-dogged-by-strays-after-covid-breeding-boom"},"modified":"2022-11-16T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:00:05","slug":"fiji-dogged-by-strays-after-covid-breeding-boom-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50260","title":{"rendered":"Fiji dogged by strays after Covid breeding boom \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After neutering services were shut down during the pandemic, the population of stray dogs roaming the Pacific country has soared<\/p>\n<p>Amid the iconic sounds of Fiji \u2013 the rolling of the ocean, a church choir \u2013 is an unexpected and unwelcome noise: the insistent barking of stray dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The population of stray dogs across the Pacific country has exploded in the last few years, sparked by a dog baby boom, which occurred as neutering initiatives stopped during the pandemic and border closures halted the flow of essential international volunteer vets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/16\/fiji-dogged-by-strays-after-covid-breeding-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After neutering services were shut down during the pandemic, the population of stray dogs roaming the Pacific country has soaredAmid the iconic sounds of Fiji \u2013 the rolling of the ocean, a church choir \u2013 is an unexpected and unwelcome noise: the insist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3433,"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":[265,41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/50260","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\/3433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260\/revisions\/50261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}