{"id":10874,"date":"2017-09-22T08:12:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=10874"},"modified":"2017-09-22T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T06:13:02","slug":"paws-pet-blessing-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2017\/09\/22\/paws-pet-blessing-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"PAWS Pet Blessing 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pet blessings were first organized by Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) President, Nita Hontiveros-Lichauco in 1995 to make people more aware of St. Francis of Assisi.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, the annual <strong>PAWS Pet Blessing<\/strong> which falls on the first Sunday of October has grown into a huge celebration by animal lovers and animal welfare advocates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"912\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10876\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21751466_1494847377227569_216319523295663401_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21751466_1494847377227569_216319523295663401_n.jpg 912w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21751466_1494847377227569_216319523295663401_n-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21751466_1494847377227569_216319523295663401_n-768x808.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>\/IMAGE Paws on Facebook<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the upcoming World Animal Day and the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, PAWS and SM Skydome will hold a grand Pet Blessing at the SM Skydome, SM North Edsa on October 1, 2017 (Sunday) at 5:00 pm. Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) invites all pet owners and animal lovers to celebrate this special day by having their companion animals individually blessed by volunteer priests.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10877\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21740065_1491616610883979_4231337667632306481_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21740065_1491616610883979_4231337667632306481_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21740065_1491616610883979_4231337667632306481_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21740065_1491616610883979_4231337667632306481_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/21740065_1491616610883979_4231337667632306481_n-290x290.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>\/IMAGE Paws on Facebook<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On this day, a special Mass will be held for all the animals in celebration of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, a patron saint of animals and the ecology where cats, dogs and other pets can participate in the mass with their human guardians or owners. There will also be a pet pledge from all the furrents during a candle lighting ceremony at the end of the mass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Owners have their pets blessed in Manila\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3iBTczGfyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>DETAILS:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>What: PAWS Pet Blessing 2017<br \/>\nWhen: October 1, 2017 (5:00 PM)<br \/>\nWhere: SM Skydome, SM North Edsa, Quezon City<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Written By: Patricia Antoinette M. Nacianceno<br \/>\nImage Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pawsphilippines\/photos\/a.658373797541602.1073741868.176442875734699\/1491616610883979\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>; Video from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G3iBTczGfyY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) invites all pet owners and animal lovers to celebrate this special day by having their companion animals individually blessed by volunteer priests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,218,2771,12,11],"tags":[2774,1692,2772,2775,2773],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quezon-city","category-holiday-events","category-pet-blessing-holiday-events","category-sm-north-edsa","category-skydome","tag-feast-of-st-francis-of-assisi","tag-paws","tag-pet-blessing-2017","tag-philippine-animal-welfare-society","tag-world-animal-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10927,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions\/10927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}