{"id":894,"date":"2011-04-21T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=894"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:59:31","slug":"swan-river-area-man-convicted-of-animal-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2011\/04\/21\/swan-river-area-man-convicted-of-animal-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan River Area Man Convicted of Animal Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-879\" title=\"govmb\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/govmb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/govmb.jpg 236w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/govmb-100x61.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>Government of Manitoba Media Release | The Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer advises that Walter Goba of the Swan River area has been convicted in provincial court of operating a kennel without a licence, confining an animal in hazardous conditions and housing animals in unsanitary conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goba was charged under the Animal Care Act by the Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer in February 2009 and March 2010.\u00a0 He has been fined $1,683.<\/p>\n<p>Goba also faces an additional 44 charges of animal cruelty laid by the RCMP under the Criminal Code.\u00a0 These charges relate to animals seized from his farm by the Rural Municipality of Swan River in December 2010.\u00a0 Fifteen horses, two donkeys and 27 dogs were found starving, injured or living in filth.\u00a0 The Office of the Chief Veterinary Office assisted the RCMP in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The office advises it investigates each animal abuse report it receives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Manitoba Media Release | The Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer advises that Walter Goba of the Swan River area has been convicted in provincial court of operating a kennel without a licence, confining an animal in hazardous conditions and housing animals in unsanitary conditions.\u00a0 Goba was charged under the Animal Care Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}