Three-year-old suffered 15 skull fractures & broken nose and jaw in Rogers’ tiny home town OOLOGAH, Oklahoma––“No man can be condemned for owning a dog,” alleged humorist Will Rogers, who also famously professed to have never met a man he didn’t like. “As long as he has a dog, he has a friend,” Rogers claimed, “and […]
Indiana ruling may help L.A. woman now in critical from adopted pit bull
Indiana Court of Appeals reinforces shelter duty to inform adopters of dogs’ past attacks LOS ANGELES, INDIANAPOLIS––Reports from Los Angeles indicate that a recent Indiana appellate decision could have a multi-million dollar impact on a yet-to-be filed case in which a 70-year-old woman is reportedly in critical condition from an attack by a pit […]
A Traitor To His Species: Henry Bergh & The Birth Of The Animal Rights Movement
by Ernest Freeberg 322 pages, hardcover. $30.00. Basic Books Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 www.basicbooks.com Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Perhaps the first question to ask about a new biography of Henry Bergh, of whom more than 50 have reputedly been written already, with at least four close to […]
Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war
Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]
Dogs replace SOB in White House. Pro-animal legislative candidates fared well too!
More than 400 legislators endorsed by animal groups were elected or re-elected on November 3, 2020 WASHINGTON D.C.––President-elect and new First Lady Joe and Jill Biden, to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021, will bring to the White House with them their two German shepherds, Champ and Major, ending the only four-year dog-less stretch in […]
Pit bulls, wolves win in Colorado; horse racing wins in Nebraska; Hsiung loses
Colorado goes to the dogs DENVER, Colorado; LINCOLN, Nebraska; BERKELEY, California––Democratic challenger Joe Biden narrowly led Republican incumbent Donald Trump at 1:45, Pacific time, on November 4, 2020. The three major ballot issues and one mayoral race directly involving animals appeared to have ended, however, with a win for pit bulls in Denver, a […]
DNA & vets agree: pit bull Curtis, not hunting hounds, killed Elisa Pilarski
Findings could lead to prosecution of fiancé of pregnant victim, who found her body, has denied both that Curtis did it and that he is a pit bull PARIS, France––DNA test results released on November 3, 2020 by Eric Boussuge, prosecutor for the district of Amiens, support the finding of two court-appointed veterinarians that […]
Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too
Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban, & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor BERKELEY, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY––While the races for the U.S. Presidency, control of the Senate and House of Representatives grip the nation on Election Day 2020, animal […]
Final Impact Report on Los Angeles TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”
Not encouraging feeding sidesteps most objections to neuter/return cat control LOS ANGELES, California––A single seven-word subheading in Chapter 3 sums up the long-awaited 714-page Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program Final Environmental Impact Report: The Proposed Project Does Not Encourage Feeding. With those seven words, the City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau […]
Denver votes on pit bull ban that has prevented fatal attacks since 1989
Wolves are also on the ballot DENVER, Colorado––Just a week before Denver voters cast ballots on whether to repeal the city’s 31-year-old ban on pit bulls and on whether to restore wolves to Colorado, the dog attack getting most local media attention involves neither a pit bull, nor a wolf dog, nor even a […]
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