{"id":3553,"date":"2016-02-16T19:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T00:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hvovet.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:05:59","slug":"position-statement-on-tail-docking-and-ear-cropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/position-statement-on-tail-docking-and-ear-cropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Position statement on tail docking and ear cropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OMVQ forbids veterinarians to practice the following surgical procedures for cosmetic reasons or breed-standard purposes and will consider these practices to be in violation of the law:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tail docking and ear cropping in cats and dogs<br \/>\n&#8211; tail docking in cattle<br \/>\n&#8211; tail docking in horses<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Persons other than veterinarians who perform these surgical procedures in Quebec will be charged with the illegal practice of veterinary medicine and subjected to penalties under the law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This notice of prohibition will come into effect on January 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For complete notice of prohibition, go to : http:\/\/www.omvq.qc.ca\/DATA\/TEXTEDOC\/position-tail-docking-ear-cropping.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OMVQ forbids veterinarians to practice the following surgical procedures for cosmetic reasons or breed-standard purposes and will consider these practices to be in violation of the law:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tail docking and ear cropping in cats and dogs<br \/>\n&#8211; tail docking in cattle<br \/>\n&#8211; tail docking in horses<br \/>\nFor complete notice, please go to read more below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dogs","category-farm-animals","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvovet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}