{"id":756,"date":"2013-11-25T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-11-25T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:31:18","slug":"cocker-spaniel-abusers-get-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Cocker spaniel abusers get jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-757 \" alt=\"Keith Morgan and Shauna Ewing\" src=\"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Untitled-1-300x144.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Untitled-1-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Untitled-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Morgan and Shauna Ewing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Jersey couple Keith Morgan and Shauna Ewing were sentenced to 6 months of jail for animal cruelty.\u00a0 They tied their sickly cocker spaniel &#8220;Samurai&#8221; in a garbage bag and left him for dead along the roadside back in <a title=\"Cocker spaniel found in bag: Arrests made (NJ)\" href=\"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/?p=721\" target=\"_blank\">March, 2013<\/a>.\u00a0 The couple will also serve 30 days community service, pay $14,500 in fines and restitution, and are banned from owning any more pets.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Robert M. LePore made an example of the two.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There has to be a deterrent to animal cruelty&#8230;Unless these individuals are imprisoned for their depraved, cruel and heinous conduct, such acts of animal cruelty will continue&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Initially, Morgan was treated as a hero for supposedly finding the abandoned dog.\u00a0 He pretended Samurai wasn&#8217;t his but authorities discovered he was the owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New Jersey couple Keith Morgan and Shauna Ewing were sentenced to 6 months of jail for animal cruelty.\u00a0 They tied their sickly cocker spaniel &#8220;Samurai&#8221; in a garbage bag and left him for dead along the roadside back in March, 2013.\u00a0 The couple will also serve 30 days community service, pay $14,500 in fines&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=756\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cocker spaniel abusers get jail time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79,25,8,107],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocker-news","tag-abandoned","tag-abuse","tag-cocker-spaniel","tag-new-jersey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}