Santos’ Friends of Pets United never existed. Neither do “spay/neuter cookies.” WASHINGTON D.C.––The most infamous of all of New York third district Congressional Representative George Santos’ many scams, now extensively exposed, was probably the easiest: inventing and raising funds in the name of a pet rescue organization that never legally existed and never verifiably helped […]
Soccer hero Philemon Mulala is latest South African pit bull victim
South African pit bull-inflicted fatality rate, over past 100 days, soars to four times the U.S. record rate of 2022 LICHTENBERG, South Africa––Few Americans would recognize the name Philemon Mulala, but among soccer fans in Africa, he enjoyed approximately the fame of a major league baseball player who punctuated a career longer than most by […]
Pit bull owner charged with culpable homicide in South Africa
Rare criminal case filed after six fatal pit bull attacks in 45 days SENWABARWANA, South Africa––Walking to work at about 5:00 a.m., two days before Christmas, Melitta Sekole, 43, of Senwabarwana, Limpopo state, South Africa, was on a heavily traveled footpath through Ga-Makgato village, heading toward Vivo village, ten miles away, when two pit bulls […]
For auld lang syne: last ANIMALS 24-7 obituaries of 2022
John Neville Hare, Mark Stanley-Price, Faith Maloney, & Vivienne Westwood The camel man John Neville Hare, 88, died on January 28, 2022, but ANIMALS 24-7 did not learn of his death until almost a year later. Born in Bexhill, Kent, Hare became acquainted with working camels as a British army officer assigned to the Royal […]
Alleged game farm money-laundering may oust South African president
Cyril Ramaphosa raised animals to hunt, purportedly had $580,000 stashed in his sofa, & was suspected of taking a bribe linked to $42 million scam by David Wills, former Humane Society of the U.S. exec doing life for child sex trafficking JOHANNESBURG––Win or lose a confidence vote at the African National Congress convention beginning on […]
More dog attack deaths fuel alarm in South Africa, Australia, Ireland
Why is death-by-dog accepted as punishment for even innocent & accidental trespass? MOGWASE, South Africa; GREENBANK, Australia; DUBLIN, Ireland––Two December 3, 2022 dog attack fatalities resulting from use of high-risk dogs as alleged crime deterrents, and a new investigative report about pit bull breeding in Ireland, have further fueled rising demands for stricter dog laws […]
“We can’t live like this in a world where dogs eat children”
Fourth South African pit bull fatality in 10 days News analysis by Beth Clifton “We can’t live like this in a world where dogs eat children,” pit bull owner Mokete Selebano of Phomolong township, South Africa, told BBC News reporter Vumani Mkhize, a week after Selebano on November 21, 2022 saw a neighbor’s two pit […]
Baby is 3rd South African killed by pit bull in 9 days; calls for ban rise
“Never aggressive to me, but killed two other dogs,” says owner EAST LONDON, South Africa––Fifteen-month-old Reuben le Roux on November 23, 2022 became the third South African child killed by pit bulls in nine days. The attack whetted public demands for a national pit bull ban and further mobilized pit bull advocates in defense of […]
Pit bull attacks inflame pit bull lynchings in South African shantytowns
Four pit bulls burned by two mobs, 800 miles apart, after the pits killed one child and nearly killed another CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Inter-racial friction, a legacy of the continuing use of fierce dogs to defend white privilege, decades after apartheid ended, smoldered just beneath the remains of four pit bulls lynched and burned by […]
87,570 South Africans petition for pit bull ban after most recent fatalities
Firefighter leads response to deaths of eight-year-old and 10-year-old BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa––The two most recent South African pit bull fatalities differed little from dozens of others, both in South Africa and around the world, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, India, and South America. This time, though, the South African response, though, has […]
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