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2nd fatal dog attack of 2023, like the first, kills child out past sunset

January 26, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 5 Comments

Mother mauled trying to save son from four Rottweilers & Rott mixes             FORT HALL,  Idaho––The second fatal dog attack in the U.S. of 2023 occurred in almost exactly the same manner as the first and the first near-fatality:  a small child,  alone outdoors after dark,  was fatally mauled by unfamiliar big dogs,  in this […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top Tagged With: Benny Wolfchild, Emily Carroll Islas, Gunner Quagigant, Juliana Wolfchild, Kellan Islas, Melissa Karren, Merritt Clifton, Shoshone-Bannock

George Santos was a small-timer among animal charity scammers

January 23, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal organizations, Cameroun, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Romania, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Anthony Devolder, Desmond Fodge Bobga, Merritt Clifton, Richard Osthoff, Samantha Miller, Tori Lynn Head, Woofin Palooza

Soccer hero Philemon Mulala is latest South African pit bull victim

January 12, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, South Africa, Sports, Zambia Tagged With: Cape Town Spurs, Giyani Dynamos, Johannesburg Rangers, Lillian Chileshe, Merritt Clifton, Mufulira Wanderers, Philemon Kaunda, Staffordshire

Pit bulls allowed to run loose bring 1st fatality & 1st near-fatality of 2023

January 9, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

One child killed & one nearly killed within minutes on sixth day of the year             EAST BATON ROUGE, Louisiana;  APPLING, Georgia––The first human death by dog attack in 2023 came earlier in the year than the first fatal dog attack of any of the 40-plus previous years that ANIMALS 24-7 has logged fatal and […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Burt Thomas Baker III, Erick Lopez, Haley Anselmo, Hilton Cole, Justin Stevens Gilstrap, Merritt Clifton, Migdelia Guadalupe, Sadie Davila, Serenity Garrett

Dogs killed 62 Americans & three Canadians in 2022; pit bulls killed 41

January 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Deaths due to dog eclipse previous records.  Deaths by pit bull might;  it’s all in how you count them. Dogs caused the deaths of a record 62 Americans and three Canadians in 2022,  the fortieth consecutive year that ANIMALS 24-7 has logged fatal and disfiguring dog attacks occurring throughout the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. […]

Filed Under: Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Bennard, Betty Ann "Rusty" Williams, Evangeline Brooks, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Sheeks, Olivia Grace Floyd, Pam Robb

10-year totals: pit bulls kill 81% of pets & livestock animals killed by dogs

January 4, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

The numbers & how ANIMALS 24-7 derives them A decade ago,  in January 2013,  ANIMALS 24-7 embarked on what is now a 10-year voyage to boldly go where no statistician had gone before,  to find not only how many other pets and livestock animals are killed by dogs each year,  but also to establish which […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls, USDA Wildlife Services

Pit bull owner charged with culpable homicide in South Africa

January 3, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), South Africa Tagged With: Keketso Innocent Saule, Lebohang Pali, Melitta Sekole, Merritt Clifton, Nchabeleng Charles Masebe, Sizwe Kupelo, Storm Nuku, Thoko Didiza

International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87

December 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt             CAPE COD,  Massachusetts––Brian Davies,  87,  founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare,  Network for Animals,  the Political Animal Lobby,  and Animal Survival International,  died after a prolonged illness on December 27,  2022. Born on February 4,  1935 in Tonyrefail,  Wales,  an impoverished mining village,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Marine life, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Pacific rim, Philippines, Religion & philosophy, Seals, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife Tagged With: Anne Doncaster, Anne Streeter, Brigitte Bardot, Gloria Davies, Harry Rowsell, IFAW, International Wildlife Coaliton, Jill Robinson, Merritt Clifton, Paul Seigel, Stephen Best, Tom Hughes

No jail at Christmas 2022 for hoarder busted at Christmas 2019

December 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

But Corinne DiLorenzo is at last sentenced WATSEKA, Illinois––Corinne N. DiLorenzo,  40,  suspected in the deaths of as many as 700 animals at her former Earth Animal Sanctuary in Thawville,  Illinois, about 100 miles south of Chicago,  on December 21,  2022 received a sentence amounting to an early Christmas present from Iroquois County Circuit Court […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, USA Tagged With: Corinne N. DiLorenzo, Earth Animal Sanctuary, Jodie Wiederkehr, Thawville, Tobein Tegard, Wedrose Acres Animal Sanctuary

What’s worse than coal for Christmas? 10 years for dogfighting!

December 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Dogfighting,  drugs,  & firearms AKRON,  Ohio––Convicted dogfighter Ronald Smith,  39,  of Akron,  Ohio was on December 19,  2022 sentenced to serve ten years and three months in jail,  after pleading guilty to a 22-count indictment,  including charges of dogfighting,  drug trafficking,  and being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge John R. […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Anthonio Latoranodo Orr, K2 Solutions, Merritt Clifton, Vincent Le Mark Burrell

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