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How many other animals did dogs––& pit bulls––kill in 2021?

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Social distancing again suppressed the totals,  but pit bulls still accounted for 84% of all animals killed by dogs Again in 2021,  as in 2020,  social distancing practiced due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic kept people and dogs home much more often than in previous years. This trend held reported dog attacks on other animals […]

Will there be a Tomb of the Unknown Pit Bull Victim? Body count 2021

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Dog attack death toll fell just short of a new record             CHICAGO, Illinois––Ten days after the December 28,  2021 death of the apparent last fatal dog attack victim of the year,  ANIMALS 24-7 still has not found the identity of the 34-year-old male victim,  despite many hours of searching death records,  social media postings,  […]

Greyhound racing drug dealer goes down with the industry

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Kennel Supply owner Jon Stidham to forfeit more in profits than the Iowa greyhound racing industry has seen in years             CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa––Former Iowa Greyhound Association president Jon Stidham,  57,  who most recently served the association as vice president and treasurer,  on January 5,  2022 pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally dealing drugs,  […]

What RU-486 means for animals

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FDA decision on Mifrepristone may bring back birth control pet food––but definitely not Alex Pacheco’s “Spay and neuter cookies” (See FDA verdict on Mifrepristone upstages more nonsense from Alex Pacheco.) WASHINGTON D.C.––The pharmacological race to be first to market a safe,  affordable,  easily administered contraceptive drug for dogs,  cats,  and nuisance wildlife,  somewhat quiet of […]

Public shelters: refuge for animals or not?

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by Wendolyn Aragon,  president,  Pet Assistance Foundation Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. nearly two years ago,  in 2020,  most U.S. animal shelters adopted some variation of managed admissions,  an approach long promoted by the “no kill” movement,  only admitting animals in need of emergency care. This was concerning, since it was breeding […]

Police dog bites soar in Richmond, California; city tries to hide the data

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Richmond has long history of controversial police use of violence RICHMOND, California––Praised in 2018 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for significantly decreasing use of force without increasing officer fatalities,  the Richmond,  California police department is now under fire from critics for a marked rise in bites by police dogs,  many of them severe,  most of them […]

Heather Pingel death protecting child echoes the Daxton Borchardt case

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Pingel died eight days after rescuing son from pit bull,  on what would have been Daxton’s 10th birthday             WAUSAU,  Wisconsin––Heather Pingel, 35,  of Bowler,  Wisconsin,  mauled by a pet pit bull on December 8,  2021 while rescuing her four-year-old son from attack,  died eight days later at the Aspirus Wausau Hospital from injuries including […]

FDA verdict on Mifrepristone upstages more nonsense from Alex Pacheco

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Mifrepristone decision has real implications for birth control pet food.  Pacheco appeal is just another 600 million gallons of dog cess.             WASHINGTON D.C.;  POMPANO BEACH, Florida–– The real news of note about animal birth control released on December 16,  2021––though it was not billed as such––came from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). […]

What does Islam teach about spay/neuter of dogs & cats?

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All major schools and branches of Islam accept spay/neuter surgery––if it is done correctly              Few ANIMALS 24-7 articles have been more often read,  in more nations,  than What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?  This article,  updated most recently on August 22,  2021,  was among the first […]