Miami, Albuquerque, and Charleston incidents illustrate the cost of pro-pit mendacity Pit bull advocates will on October 24, 2015 celebrate the ninth annual “Pit Bull Awareness Day,” founded in 2007 by Jody Preis of the Tennessee pit bull rescue Bless the Bullies, and subsequently expanded by many pit bull advocates into an entire “Pit Bull […]
Pit bull wisdom & dog pound foolishness
by Liz Marsden On April 29, 2015 I testified before the Rhode Island House Health, Education, and Welfare Committee against a bill, H. 5585, which if passed would require law enforcement agencies to transfer dogs impounded in raids on suspected dogfighters to “The SPCA” for adoption to the public or transfer to an “appropriate rescue […]
Man who had “15 minutes of fame” for attempted pit bull rescue to be sentenced for involuntary homicide by pit bull
Brian Hrenko was pit bull rescue celebrity STOCKTON, California; DAYTON, Ohio––Brian Hrenko, 60, now awaiting sentencing for an involuntary homicide committed by a pit bull, became briefly a pit bull rescue celebrity on March 9, 1995 after jumping off the San Mateo Bridge in a futile attempt to save his pit bull Nitro from drowning. […]
Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle woos anti-gay evangelist
by Lee Hall Barrett Duke, a founding fellow of the Research Institute at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, on March 17, 2015 received accolades from Humane Society of the United States president Wayne Pacelle in his personal blog “A Humane Nation.” Explained Pacelle, “It’s part of my commitment, and that of […]
Arrest made in suspected dogfighting-related 2013 triple murder
Severo Luera, 35, served Idaho felony warrant in connection with triple homicide MALAD, Idaho––An arrest has been made in connection with an April 2013 triple murder in rural Idaho near the Utah border, believed to have been linked to dogfighting. Oneida County Sheriff Jeff Semrad on February 12, 2015 announced in a written release distributed to […]
Speaking out against blind & frivolous pit bull advocacy
by Ashton Blackwell Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dogs. I accumulated an impressive menagerie of stuffed animals and dog books, and I excitedly educated anyone who would indulge me on my almost strangely encyclopedic knowledge of the breeds. My parents received ingratiating misspelled notes regularly, begging them […]
Legendary undercover dogfighting investigator dies at 60
“Accomplished photographer and undercover investigator” Briar Storms, also known online as Briar Theelsmom, 60, died on September 11, 2014 in King County, Washington, after a long struggle with cancer. Said Humane Society of the U.S. senior law enforcement specialist Eric L. Sakach, “She asked that I post a Facebook message after her passing to let […]
When are alleged fighting dogs not pit bulls?
When the Humane Society of the U.S. sends the media release SEVIERVILLE, Tennessee––When are 50 pit bulls seized from an alleged fighting dog breeding kennel in rural Tennessee not pit bulls? When the Humane Society of the U.S. helps with the bust, writes the press release about it, and distributes it to media nationwide, while […]