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Pit bulls & public safety

December 23, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bulls & public safety

•  Does the Second Amendment protect a “right” to shoot a pit bull?

• No-kill drive leaves TN county with no shelter & as many strays as ever

• Pit bull attack death streak reaches nine in nine days

•  Pit bull fatality streak reaches seven in eight days

•  Five pit bull attack deaths in five days: these were the victims

• Pit bulls running amok to kill is not “manslaughter,” says Oklahoma City jury

• Pit bull mayhem,  murder, other crimes,  & the multiplier effect illustrated

• Six pit bull-related deaths linked to “The Wickedest City in America”

• Austin Animal Services: “On the far side of stupid”

• Albuquerque animal shelter may lead U.S. in staff maulings

• The deaths of Katie Janness & Javon Stokes, pit bulls & Occam’s Razor

• Emily Kahl: 16th fatality attributable to 2012 gutting of Ohio dog law

• Why were Amber Miller & Tony Ahrens killed by dogs in Newport, TN?

• Pit bulls kill at Mafia graveyard; extortion in New York statehouse

• CDC: fixated on rabies, ignoring 100 times more deaths from pit bulls

• Six dog-related fatalities disclosed in 24 hours, but key info withheld

• Navajo Nation: “They hid the dogs who killed my daughter!”

• 2020 began & ended with pit bulls killing babies in Dayton, Ohio

• Police dog attacks on black children soar in Baton Rouge

• Pit bull moonshine claims another life in the “Sunshine State”

• Montgomery County to pay $3.5 million to survivors of Klonda Richey

• Pit bulls on aircraft: ANIMALS 24-7 responds to federal proposal

• Feds crack door to banning pit bulls from airliners

• The Third Dog:  a mystery featuring 2 deaths, 2 Great Danes, 2 pit bulls,  and ???

• Mark Kumpf named Detroit animal control chief. Remember Klonda Richey?

• How did Kumpf get elected top Detroit dogcatcher? Inside info raises questions

• L.A. County pays $3 million to family of pit bull owner killed by ricochet

• Shelters make mega-payouts to pit bull victims: what will change?

• Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy

• January 2019 saw the most dog-related deaths in 13 months

• “Educate yourself”: pit bulls in schools run amok

• Albuquerque sued again for allegedly rehoming dangerous dogs

• Moms of babies killed by pit bulls want foster agencies to pay

• Safety agencies failed woman, infant killed by pit bull mixes

* Pit bull impounded, drifter kills police chief

• Gambling––on dogs & dollars––erodes animal care & control ethic

• Trainer who pushed pit bulls for police work indicted for fraud

• Pit bull death of 4-year-old underscores “March For Our Lives” messages

• Judges hit “mindboggling arrogance” in pit bull attack cases

• Chicago animal control chief, a pit bull advocate, attacked by pit bull

• Whose dogs killed Deborah Onsurez, 8th victim in December 2017?

• From pit bulls to street dogs, irresponsible advocacy inflames “dog menace”

• Miami pit bull ban update, 2017 edition: “No pit bulls” still means “No pit bulls”

• Pit bull advocacy exposed by the CBC Fifth Estate with host Mark Kelley

• Three pit bull attack deaths in one day mark 35 years of logging the mayhem

• When pit bulls charge: holding fire gets cops hurt 12 times more often

• Three dead, two critically injured, in hotbeds of pit bull advocacy

• L.A. County tightens dog policies; Albuquerque drops the ball

• Dog Bite Prevention Week 2017 starts with a bang-bang-bang

• Oregon cities move to bar dogs from public areas

• Pit bulls & “proximate cause” deaths

• Repeal of pit bull bylaw contributes to death of two-year-old

• Pit bull attack tests Army will to enforce ban from base housing

• Shelter sued for rehoming pit bull who attacked woman––but NYC hires pit advocate as “community dogs program coordinator”

• Misunderstood Nanny Dogs,  by J. Thomas Beasley

• Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department #2 and behaviorist allege neglect of public safety in pushing pit bull adoptions

• Audit hits San Antonio Animal Care Services for alleged neglect of public safety

 • Lenient animal control policies toward bully breeds were in background of four of five recent death-by-dog cases

• Pit bull death of 4-year-old underscores “March For Our Lives” messages

• Stamford shelter manager is first in U.S. to be charged with reckless endangerment for rehoming dangerous dogs

• Fitchburg becomes third public shelter to suspend operations due to liability concerns about pit bulls

• Fitchburg:  Can pit bull advocates be trusted to do rabies control?

• Roswell resumes releases of dogs to rescue groups following 3-day suspension after pit bull attack

• “Service pit bull” who attacked three people is re-impounded

• Shelters sued for attacks by rehomed pit bulls

• Father sentenced in case of 4-year-old killed by pit bulls because Miami-Dade law was not enforced

• Why San Antonio Animal Care Services did not promptly impound a gunshot-wounded mastiff found running in a pack

• Buncombe County, NC orders moratorium on pit bull adoptions

• Albuquerque pound broke city’s own dangerous dog law

• Albuquerque city shelter released dangerous dogs

• How behavior testing fails adopters, dogs, volunteers & shelter staff

• What is the Austin Animal Center doing to dogs in the name of “play”?

• Christmas baby killed by pit bulls because Miami-Dade law is not enforced

• Dallas: dog attacks soar as “live release rate” climbs

• Animal control director can be sued for dog attack death, court rules

• Court rejects animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s defenses

Beth & Merritt Clifton

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Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Albuquerque Animal Services, Asheville Humane Society, ASPCA, J. Thomas Beasley, Merritt Clifton, SAFER test, San Antonio Animal Services, Stamford Animal Shelter

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