{"id":3648,"date":"2023-11-12T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:46:52","slug":"nepals-day-for-dogs-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/?p=3648","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s day for dogs festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/F-uK9g1bwAAFIh7?format=jpg&amp;name=4096x4096\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2731\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dogs in Nepal were decked with marigold garlands and bright vermillion paint on Sunday to celebrate a day dedicated to them as part of a Hindu festival.<\/p>\n<p>Kukur Tihar, the second day of the five-day Tihar festival, is reserved for worshipping dogs as agents of Yamaraj, the god of death, and for appreciating their loyalty and companionship to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Businessman Sujit Dongol, who celebrated the festival at home, told AFP that his dog was part of the family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a companion to everyone and is always happy and playful like a child,&#8221; he said, holding his one-year-old American Bully in his arms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel happy worshipping a dog that lives with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nepalpolice.gov.np\/media\/filer_public\/d3\/9d\/d39d0ad2-827e-49c3-bfe9-2545cd042ad2\/7h0a8978.jpg\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dog lovers also offer treats and toys to their pets and street dogs during the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Armed Police Force held a special ritual to honour and worship their canine force, which is often used during natural disasters and in the detection of explosives and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a special day,&#8221; said Ramesh Pokharel, chief of the Animal Health and Dog Handler section of the Armed Police Force.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our dogs have helped us a lot, so the security personnel feel happy to celebrate this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Nepal&#8217;s festival, a similar annual celebration began in Mexico in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But animal welfare groups say the special treatment should not be limited to a single day and inhumane treatment towards street dogs, such as poisoning them to cull the population or to prevent rabies, must be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Dogs in Nepal were decked with marigold garlands and bright vermillion paint on Sunday to celebrate a day dedicated to them as part of a Hindu festival. Kukur Tihar, the second day of the five-day Tihar festival, is reserved for worshipping dogs as agents of Yamaraj, the god of death, and for appreciating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/F-uK_iVaUAASKZv?format=jpg&name=4096x4096","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiorhinonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}