{"id":976801,"date":"2022-02-04T20:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/watch-ice-skating-dog-shows-off-skills-for-charity-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:41:42","slug":"watch-ice-skating-dog-shows-off-skills-for-charity-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/watch-ice-skating-dog-shows-off-skills-for-charity-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Ice skating dog shows off skills for charity in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ice-skating-dog-shows-off-skills-for-charity-in-New-York.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KZrDZ7JPSCs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ice-skating dog shows off skills in Central Park\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZrDZ7JPSCs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 4 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A rescue dog raised money for charity in New York by showing off an unusual skill: ice skating.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Delsangro, of Las Vegas, said she rescued Benny, her 8-year-old Labrador retriever, from a kill shelter in Utah.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I contacted the shelter, I found out it was his last day,&#8221; Delsangro told WPIX-TV. &#8220;He was going to be put down the next day, so I had arrangements made. and they pulled him. and I had him sent down to Las Vegas and I adopted him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Delsangro, a retired professional figure skater, said she decided to try to teach Benny to navigate the ice on custom-made skates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll just run on the ice whenever he wants and skate around after me and chase me and so he really does like it,&#8221; Delsangro told WABC-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Benny made his New York debut at Wollman Rink in Central Park, at which he showed off his skills to raise money for the Animal Vision Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really a shame dogs don&#8217;t have as much care for their eyes, so we&#8217;ve gotten involved with this. Benny takes a supplement,&#8221; Delsangro said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 4 (UPI) &#8212; A rescue dog raised money for charity in New York by showing off an unusual skill: ice skating. Cheryl Delsangro, of Las Vegas, said she rescued Benny, her 8-year-old Labrador retriever, from a kill shelter in Utah. &#8220;When I contacted the shelter, I found out it was his last day,&#8221; Delsangro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}