{"id":213,"date":"2018-07-25T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=213"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:01:33","slug":"lawyer-dante-di-pirro-steps-up-to-save-animals-killed-in-hamilton-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/lawyer-dante-di-pirro-steps-up-to-save-animals-killed-in-hamilton-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Dante Di Pirro Steps Up to Save Animals Killed in Hamilton Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey attorney Dante Di Pirro, who has a long record representing the interests of homeless and abused animals and opposing animal shelter operators who flout the law, has put the Hamilton NJ Municipal Shelter on notice. He&#8217;s sent them a litter promising a class-action lawsuit unless they stop euthanizing&#8211;killing&#8211;owner surrendered animals before the mandatory hold period, during which the animals must be offered for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Di Pirro notes that\u00a0statements made at the recent Hamilton Township council meeting by Shelter representatives show that &#8220;they are aware of the law, refuse to follow the express and unambiguous language of the statute, and fail to comply with their non-discretionary, mandatory duty to offer each such animal for adoption for at least seven days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good on you Dante!<\/p>\n<p>His letter to the Mayor and Council can be found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dantelawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180720-Lt-DiPirro-to-Hamilton-Twp-7-day-hold-law-violations-SENT.pdf\">HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey attorney Dante Di Pirro, who has a long record representing the interests of homeless and abused animals and opposing animal shelter operators who flout the law, has put the Hamilton NJ Municipal Shelter on notice. He&#8217;s sent them a litter promising a class-action lawsuit unless they stop euthanizing&#8211;killing&#8211;owner surrendered animals before the mandatory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/lawyer-dante-di-pirro-steps-up-to-save-animals-killed-in-hamilton-shelter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lawyer Dante Di Pirro Steps Up to Save Animals Killed in Hamilton Shelter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,27,13],"tags":[4,12,160,58,159,161,162,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}