{"id":9061,"date":"2019-11-21T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2023-10-27T01:36:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:36:21","slug":"georgia-today-maria-pettersson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/georgia-today-maria-pettersson\/","title":{"rendered":"GEORGIA TODAY - \"Suffering beyond Comprehension\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a href=\"http:\/\/georgiatoday.ge\/news\/18312\/Suffering-beyond-Comprehension-%E2%80%93-GSPSA%E2%80%99s-Swedish-Member-on-the-Animal-Welfare-Situation-in-Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9067 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/georgia-todey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/georgia-todey.jpg 756w, https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/georgia-todey-600x417.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/georgia-todey-500x348.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">GSPSA's Swedish volunteer view about the animal welfare situation in Georgia is <a href=\"http:\/\/georgiatoday.ge\/news\/18312\/Suffering-beyond-Comprehension-%E2%80%93-GSPSA%E2%80%99s-Swedish-Member-on-the-Animal-Welfare-Situation-in-Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">published in Georgia Today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\"When I left for my internship in Georgia in February 2019, I had no idea that I was about to witness a whole new level of animal cruelty and lack of animal welfare. As much as I enjoy the country, the culture and the people, the circumstances many of the country\u2019s animals are living in makes it unbearable to witness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">During my first month, I had tried to comfort frozen, underweight puppies in Kakheti, tried to make sure stray dogs were not hit by cars whenever I left my home, I went to the supermarket and bought whatever decent meat I could find to feed the starving dogs outside the local shops. The sheer number of stray animals made me think twice about traveling around in Georgia; it was just too horrible to see...\"<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSPSA's Swedish volunteer view about the animal welfare situation in Georgia is published in Georgia Today. \"When I left for my internship in Georgia in February 2019, I had no idea that I was about to witness a whole new level of animal cruelty and lack of animal welfare. As much as I enjoy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/georgia-todey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13709,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/13709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}