{"id":1307,"date":"2012-02-27T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2012-02-27T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:00:52","slug":"dewclaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Dewclaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caninesports.com\/DewClawExplanation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here is an updated link to Chris Zink&#8217;s article about dewclaws<\/a>. Her research (and the evidence of their usefulness that I have seen with my own eyes) is one of the reasons I don&#8217;t remove them (the other being that I don&#8217;t believe in removing body parts and causing pain to neonatal puppies for cosmetic reasons, especially since dew claws are not required to be removed per the breed standard).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an updated link to Chris Zink&#8217;s article about dewclaws. Her research (and the evidence of their usefulness that I have seen with my own eyes) is one of the reasons I don&#8217;t remove them (the other being that I don&#8217;t believe in removing body parts and causing pain to neonatal puppies for cosmetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48,62,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-breeding","category-dogs","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}