{"id":6140,"date":"2017-08-23T04:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2017-08-24T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:39:08","slug":"inhofe-ends-pigeon-shoot-animal-rights-group-celebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2017\/08\/23\/inhofe-ends-pigeon-shoot-animal-rights-group-celebrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Inhofe Ends Pigeon Shoot, Animal Rights Group Celebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6161\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inhofe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"180\" \/>http:\/\/kwtv.videodownload.worldnow.com\/KWTV_20170823081420733AA.mp4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author\">By Grant Hermes, News 9<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"WNStoryBody\" class=\" withRelated right\">\n<p><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\">WASHINGTON &#8211; <\/span>Senator Jim Inhofe announced the end of his\u00a0annual wild pigeon, a cause for\u00a0celebration for an animal rights group.\u00a0The\u00a0outdoor fundraiser had been the target of a multi-year campaign\u00a0by\u00a0Showing Animals Respect and Kindness,\u00a0or SHARK,\u00a0which\u00a0alleged the event was cruel.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of emails obtained by the group,\u00a0a\u00a0staffer from Sen. Inhofe&#8217;s office wrote\u00a0in January\u00a0to Oklahoma Department of Wildlife game wardens,\u00a0&#8220;I am happy to let you know that this year, and going forward, we are going to halt the &#8216;old world pigeon shoot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another email read,\u00a0&#8220;I know this event has caused some tension in the past, so I hope this move will allow us to rebuild those relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shoot had come under criticism for allegedly using tagged pigeons that were\u00a0hand thrown\u00a0in the air,\u00a0instead of hunting wild ones.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Inhofe\u00a0campaign spokesman\u00a0Luke Holland said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Inhofe campaign has long held a very successful dove hunt event each year. In a few\u00a0recent years, the event has included a pigeon shoot. This year we will not have that component of the event and will return to our traditional format; we expect it to be a record year and hope everyone who attends has a wonderful time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/kwtv.videodownload.worldnow.com\/KWTV_20170823081420733AA.mp4 By Grant Hermes, News 9 WASHINGTON &#8211; Senator Jim Inhofe announced the end of his\u00a0annual wild pigeon, a cause for\u00a0celebration for an animal rights group.\u00a0The\u00a0outdoor fundraiser had been the target of a multi-year campaign\u00a0by\u00a0Showing Animals Respect and Kindness,\u00a0or SHARK,\u00a0which\u00a0alleged the event was cruel. In a series of emails obtained by the group,\u00a0a\u00a0staffer from Sen. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2017\/08\/23\/inhofe-ends-pigeon-shoot-animal-rights-group-celebrates\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}