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 […]
Lab animal supplier Inotiv allegedly sold smuggled monkeys
Company hits trifecta: alleged monkey-trafficking, mass neglect of beagles, & accused of stock fraud MIAMI, Florida––It isn’t easy to get caught in the middle of the biggest monkey-smuggling case associated with biomedical research, the biggest beagle neglect case in the history of vivisection, and the alleged biggest pump-and-dump stock-selling scandal to hit biomedical research investors, […]
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 […]
Should vets report vaccination clients to pet licensing agencies?
Question for ANIMALS 24-7 from a reader: “Our local animal control agency has proposed a county-wide ordinance to require all veterinarians in the county to report the personal contact information for each person who brings a pet to be vaccinated. “This information is to be used to try to increase licensing compliance, as an attempted […]
Tyson executive bust upstages three dog attack fatalities in a week
Mauling death of child just a few miles away gets less coverage than John Tyson’s pants SPRINGDALE, Arkansas––The November 6, 2022 arrest of Tyson Foods chief financial officer John Tyson, 32, might be said to have upstaged the Tyson Foods slaughter of 155,000 cows, 461,000 pigs, and 45 million chickens during the next week, a […]
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Council Bluff pit bull ban
Highest court ruling yet on breed-specific legislation favors it ST. LOUIS, Missouri––A three-judge panel from the St. Louis-based, conservative-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on November 10, 2022 unanimously delivered the strongest judicial affirmation yet of the constitutionality of breed-specific dog legislation, including outright bans on the possession and sale of pit […]
New study finds: India rabies deaths & therefore world toll far exaggerated
International Journal of Infectious Diseases affirms what ANIMALS 24-7 has reported since 2012 GUANGZHOU, Guangdong, China––ANIMALS 24-7 was right all along that “official” estimates of human deaths from rabies are inflated by magnitudes of order. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about how and why the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, […]
Impoundments from hoarding cases down 90% in six years––why?
No-kill shelters & “rescues” are failing at half the rate of 2016, but the reason appears to be growing reluctance by animal care & control agencies to undertake mass impoundments LITTLEROCK, California––Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care & Control public information officer Don Belton waited until Halloween, October 31, 2022, to disclose a raid […]
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