{"id":7518,"date":"2019-07-17T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:21:11","slug":"forget-villanelle-the-uk-has-7-5-million-assassins-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/07\/17\/forget-villanelle-the-uk-has-7-5-million-assassins-at-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Villanelle; the UK has 7.5 million assassins at large"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">According to the Pet Food Manufactures Association [PFMA] there are 7.5 million domestic cats in the UK, the vast majority of which have a negative effect on wildlife and biodiversity.\u00a0 How could we move to an effective policy to gradually reduce that number?\u00a0 Does anyone know?\u00a0 Doing so seems a no-brainer to me.\u00a0 It baffles me that so many green-minded types are cat lovers as well. \u00a0Some cognitive dissonance there I think.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">It\u2019s not as if there are no adequate alternatives. The PFMA also says that currently there are some 800,000 rabbits, 400,000 hamsters and 700,000 guinea pigs enjoying life in families. \u00a0There must be room for a few million more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Pet Food Manufactures Association [PFMA] there are 7.5 million domestic cats in the UK, the vast majority of which have a negative effect on wildlife and biodiversity.\u00a0 How could we move to an effective policy to gradually...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}