{"id":152229,"date":"2025-07-01T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/will-new-animal-welfare-law-curb-illegal-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:49:23","slug":"will-new-animal-welfare-law-curb-illegal-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/will-new-animal-welfare-law-curb-illegal-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Will new animal welfare law curb illegal trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU has created\u00a0its\u00a0first law on the welfare of dogs and cats to be applied across the bloc, targeting illegal trade and harmful practices. A regulation that was long overdue, considering that 44% of EU households have a pet and it&#8217;s a billion-dollar business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/07\/01\/will-new-animal-welfare-law-curb-illegal-trade\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU has created\u00a0its\u00a0first law on the welfare of dogs and cats to be applied across the bloc, targeting illegal trade and harmful practices. A regulation that was long overdue, considering that 44% of EU households have a pet and it&#8217;s a billion-dollar business. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":152230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}