{"id":3507,"date":"2016-12-01T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2016-12-01T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:57:09","slug":"cats-adopted-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/01\/cats-adopted-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Number of Cats Adopted on Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by McKinley Corbley<\/p>\n<p>While some New York crowds were stampeding Walmart and Best Buy for Black Friday, these dedicated animal lovers were waiting in line to adopt.<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan ASPCA\u2019s adoption center celebrated their sixth annual Cat Friday event by waiving all cat adoption fees for November 25th. According to officials, 90 different cats and kittens were adopted, which is 29 more than last year \u2013 a new record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enormous success of Cat Friday demonstrates New Yorkers\u2019 deep instinct for compassion, even on a day so focused on consumerism,\u201d said Matt Bershadker, the ASPCA\u2019s president, in a statement.<br \/>\nMORE: New Jersey to Become First State That Bans Declawing<\/p>\n<p>An additional 44 animals who weren\u2019t ready for adoption due to age, illness, or vaccination were also put on hold, giving them a home when they\u2019re happy and healthy. Altogether, the grand total of adoptions came to over 130.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we broke our own record for the largest number of adoptions completed at our Adoption Center in a single day,\u201d beamed Gail Buchwald, Senior Vice President of the Adoption Center. \u201c90 animals will be sleeping in homes tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8R0YR8gF0s\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/record-number-cats-adopted-black-friday\/\">Record Number of Cats Adopted on Black Friday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Record Number of Cats Adopted on Black Friday&#8221; &#8212; Good News Network\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/record-number-cats-adopted-black-friday\/embed\/#?secret=foMwUMXmRH#?secret=8R0YR8gF0s\" data-secret=\"8R0YR8gF0s\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by McKinley Corbley While some New York crowds were stampeding Walmart and Best Buy for Black Friday, these dedicated animal lovers were waiting in line to adopt. The Manhattan ASPCA\u2019s adoption center celebrated their sixth <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/01\/cats-adopted-black-friday\/\" title=\"Record Number of Cats Adopted on Black Friday\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2113,2111,2114,2112],"class_list":{"0":"post-3507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-good-news","8":"tag-adoption","9":"tag-aspca","10":"tag-black-friday","11":"tag-cats","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}