{"id":51989,"date":"2023-01-19T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T06:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/fears-the-year-of-the-rabbit-could-bring-about-a-wave-of-abandoned-pets"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T06:54:49","slug":"fears-the-year-of-the-rabbit-could-bring-about-a-wave-of-abandoned-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51989","title":{"rendered":"Fears the Year of the Rabbit could bring about a wave of abandoned pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare groups in Malaysia and Singapore have urged consumers to not buy rabbits on an \u2018impulse\u2019 and to look into what it takes to care for them<\/p>\n<p>Pet welfare groups in Malaysia and Singapore have warned consumers not to buy rabbits to mark lunar new year, fearing a plethora of abandoned animals could follow.<\/p>\n<p>High demand for the small mammals is expected as 22 January marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit. Mohideen Abdul Kader, president of the Consumers\u2019 Association of Penang in Malaysia, said it was inevitable considering \u201cthe belief that it will bring good luck\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/fears-the-year-of-the-rabbit-could-bring-about-a-wave-of-abandoned-pets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare groups in Malaysia and Singapore have urged consumers to not buy rabbits on an \u2018impulse\u2019 and to look into what it takes to care for themPet welfare groups in Malaysia and Singapore have warned consumers not to buy rabbits to mark lunar n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"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":[586,265,41,70,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989","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\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51990,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989\/revisions\/51990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}