{"id":51872,"date":"2026-05-04T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-uncovers-the-ugandans-abusing-animals-to-elicit-donations-for-shelters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:48:19","slug":"bbc-uncovers-the-ugandans-abusing-animals-to-elicit-donations-for-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-uncovers-the-ugandans-abusing-animals-to-elicit-donations-for-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC uncovers the Ugandans abusing animals to elicit donations for shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">It is impossible to say how many social media accounts operate from Mityana. But collectively, they have flooded Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube with videos of pitiful-looking animals &#8211; mostly dogs and cats, but even rabbits \u2013 with commentary pleading for donations to shelter, feed and treat them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g9l74wvd7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is impossible to say how many social media accounts operate from Mityana. But collectively, they have flooded Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube with videos of pitiful-looking animals &#8211; mostly dogs and cats, but even rabbits \u2013 with commentary pleading for donations to shelter, feed and treat them. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4992,3835,173,597,14925,8246,14924,7908],"class_list":["post-51872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-abusing","tag-animals","tag-bbc","tag-donations","tag-elicit","tag-shelters","tag-ugandans","tag-uncovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51874,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51872\/revisions\/51874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}