{"id":20130,"date":"2018-03-09T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=20130"},"modified":"2018-03-11T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:19:47","slug":"royal-welsh-regimental-goat-an-outdated-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/royal-welsh-regimental-goat-an-outdated-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Welsh regimental goat an &#8216;outdated tradition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Animal rights activists say the tradition of the Royal Welsh Battalion adopting a goat as a mascot is &#8220;outdated and cruel&#8221;.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A wild goat named Fusilier Shenkin IV was\u00a0caught using a dart in Llandudno this week by the Third Battalion. The animal has now started six months of training in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Shenkin IV had been on the run for a month after he avoided the regiment&#8217;s first attempt at catching him.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of the Royal Welsh regiment adopting a goat mascot dates back almost 250 years, but Vikki Watkins of South Wales Animal Save believes the mascot is an outdated tradition and it should be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;He was a wild animal and living quite happily on the mountainside and now he&#8217;s going to be going under the rigours of being trained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anybody else wilfully took an animal from the wild with the intention of keeping them captive, it&#8217;s a criminal offence; you would be prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the BBC, The Royal Welsh&#8217;s Goat Major Sargent Jackson said: &#8220;I take great care in making sure he&#8217;s fully prepared to face the public and, when he is, he&#8217;ll be in great demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal rights activists say the tradition of the Royal Welsh Battalion adopting a goat as a mascot is &#8220;outdated and cruel&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20130"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20271,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130\/revisions\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}