{"id":18272,"date":"2025-07-18T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18272\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:29:07","slug":"rescued-cat-sparks-warning-over-extreme-breeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18272\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued cat sparks warning over &#8216;extreme breeding&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rescue of a rare cat has led a West Sussex animal charity to raise the alarm over  &#8220;extreme&#8221; social-media-fuelled breeding practices. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cat &amp; Rabbit Rescue Centre in Sidlesham said Alfred, a bambino cat, was dumped in a cardboard box in some bushes near Portsmouth and left to fend for himself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His unique &#8220;eye-catching&#8221; characteristics are the result of combining genes for hairlessness and dwarfism, which may cause long-term health issues and reduce his quality of life, the centre says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Extreme breeding driven by aesthetics, social media trends, and profit comes at a cost to the animal&#8217;s health and wellbeing,&#8221; said the centre&#8217;s general manager Ian Hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rescue of a rare cat has led a West Sussex animal charity to raise the alarm over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-18272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}