Pit bulls & the humane community

Pit bulls & the humane community

•  Pit bulls, the humane movement, & the elephant in the room, by Ed Duvin

•  Absence of pit bull advocacy remorse prevents resolving the pit bull issue

•  How “rescue” replicates the alleged sins of dog pounds, only worse

•  Dogs Trust, after initially insuring XL Bullies, breaks trust with insurees

•  L.A. Animal Services’ pays $31.85 million to victims of shelter dog attacks

•  How Los Angeles normalized shelter dog attacks, by Ed Boks

•  How a pit bull lobby rewrote risk, research, & rescue, by Ed Boks

•  How pit bulls became the currency of a hijacked no-kill agenda, by Ed Boks

•  When dog attack data are ignored, by Ed Boks

•  “No kill”: Still stumbling in the dark after all these years, by Ed Duvin

•  Madness in Chicago after rehoming of rabid Georgia “rescue” puppy

•  Too many pit bulls: New York City shelters refuse intake, SF/SPCA lays off staff

•  Arkansas dog rescuer Makayla Fortner, 15, killed by pit bulls

•  Three generations of pit bull advocacy culminate in death of a baby

•  Pit bull pusher Steffen Baldwin gets 15.5 years on 32 felony counts

•  Stop importing & rehoming rabid pit bull puppies, Colorado tells rescues

•  Did shelter policies cause FFA animal massacre by dogs at large?

•  Best Friends’ no-kill by 2025 goal is not just rolling over & playing dead

•  Tucson pit bull rescuer Tina M. Weger, 61, killed by own foster pit

•  Another Kansas City pit bull fatality intensifies spotlight on KC Pet Project

•  Pit bull mayhem should not elude Domestic Violence Awareness Month

•  3 dead, 2 critical in first 10 days of National Pit Bull Awareness Month

•  What’s stupider than rehoming rabid pit bull puppies? Denying the risk.

•  Pit bull death of 85-year-old spotlights Hidalgo County animal control disaster

• Dogo Argentino attack spurs notice of mayhem to shelter staff & volunteers

• Jury orders L.A. Animal Services to pay $6.8 million to mauled volunteer

• “Flesh & blood scattered everywhere”: Dog Bite Prevention Week 2023

• Dog Bite Prevention Week 2023: stiletto heels in mud, blood, & dog poop

• Pit bulls kill would-be rescuer in Detroit & two-year-old in Maryland

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

• 15 years ago Michael Vick’s pit bulls killed the humane movement

• Pit bull star of 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida kills volunteer

• “Rescuer” Heidi Lueders acquitted of allegedly starving five pit bulls to death

• Caring for bears & a homeless woman contrasts to caring only about pit bulls

• Citrus County, Florida, tries to put Out of the Box Rescue back in the box

• Illinois pit bull fatality mirrors attack by HSUS rep Annie Hornish’s pit

• Pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin could get 81 years for killing dogs & fraud

•  Pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski struck twice more in five days

• Pit bull kills guest in home of HSUS Connecticut state rep Anne Hornish

• “National Pit Bull Awareness Month” opens with two pit bull fatalities

• What the ASPCA ignored on National Dog Fighting Awareness Day

• A Grim tale of suspected dumb rabies & a dumber response

• Time for a national conversation about pit bulls, by guest columnist Ed Boks

• Bully Breed Rescue president allegedly starved five dogs to death

• Pit bull victims sue the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society

• How tabloids turned the pits who killed Tracy Garcia into “dachshunds”

• How a shelter “Blackjacked” adopters with the “nanny dog” myth

• New Best Friends & HSUS execs flunk economic logic that dogs understand

• More deaths in South Africa despite Pit Bull Federation warning

• “Second chance” pit bull mauls pit advocate groomer at PetSmart

• Akita rescuer Carol Harris is record 5th fatality of 2017 by shelter dogs

• What pit bull advocates don’t learn from their own maulings

• Shelter director resigns in Maine “lost” pit bulls case

• Shelter “loses” two pit bulls after Maine Supreme Court orders euthanasia

• Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle

• A cry from the elephant pit

• Family of pit bull victim sues the Clinton Humane Society

• The Upside-Down Mind of a Rescue Group

• Anatomy of a disfigurement by a misidentified shelter pit bull

• When are alleged fighting dogs not pit bulls?

• Dog bite prevention weak 2015

• Pit bull from Asheville Humane Society kills six-year-old

• No one held to account for Asheville Humane Society pit bull adoption fatality

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

• Did ASPCA discover certifying SAFER dog screening might be dangerous?

• Best Friends, the ASPCA, & HSUS: rethink pit bulls!

• “Worse than chimp attack” pit bull mauling near Pacelle family home

• HSUS & Best Friends throw puppy mill pups to pit bulls

• The RSPCA recommends you & your pets for a pit bull’s dinner

• New Haven pit bull victim dies; pit mix kills 3-day-old girl on same day

• Pit bulls, “bullying & backlash,” & who is really threatening whom

• How the League Against Cruel Sports is defending dogfighting

• How to tell a “bait dog” from “click bait”

 

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