Two fatal dog attacks on the last weekend of 2018 campaign maintain pace toward matching 2017 record WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania––Details of the 34th and 35th known fatal dog attacks to occur in the U.S. in 2018 remained scarce as Election Day 2018 dawned. The two fatalities matched the toll as of the same date […]
Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election
Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12; Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13 SACRAMENTO, California; ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6, […]
Albuquerque sued again for allegedly rehoming dangerous dogs
Earlier cases allege rehoming dangerous cats, too ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Already sued half a dozen times in under four years over issues pertaining to rehoming dangerous animals, the city of Albuquerque was in the fourth week of October 2018 sued yet again, this time by former Albuquerque Animal Welfare employee Victoria Murphy. Murphy in her filing […]
Should dog owners face prison for fleeing the scene of attacks?
Maine politician promises bill to address dine-and-dash behavior ––if elected AUGUSTA, Maine––Should dog owners be criminally prosecuted for leaving the scene of an attack injuring a human or another animal? Oddly enough, no state legislature appears to have addressed hit-and-run dog-walking yet, nor even instances in which dog owners flee with dogs who have […]
Helpful links for Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day
Both animal & human victims to be remembered on October 27, 2018 With “Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day,” October 27, 2018, fast approaching, including activities on behalf of both animal and human pit bull attack victims, many readers may find the Pit Stop Archive useful––a special sub-menu offered by ANIMALS 24-7 to help access our […]
Witch hunts & wildlife
$53,000 reward offered in panic A $53,000 reward, believed to be the biggest ever in a case of this sort, is currently posted in Thurston County, Washington, for information leading to the apprehension of an alleged serial cat killer who has supposedly tortured and dismembered at least 13 cats since July 2018. We could certainly […]
Moms of babies killed by pit bulls want foster agencies to pay
Kansas case filed; Florida case likely CLEARWATER, Florida; TOPEKA, Kansas––A lawsuit filed on September 21, 2018 against the Kansas Department for Children & Families and the nonprofit child fostering agency KVC Behavioral Healthcare by survivors of foster child Piper Dunbar, age 2, killed by two pit bulls in 2016, may presage a case in development […]
Safety agencies failed woman, infant killed by pit bull mixes
Why were the victims & the killer dogs in the same homes? LAS VEGAS, Nevada; CLEARWATER, Florida––Pit bull mixes were on October 5, 2018 disclosed to have killed 58-year-old Susan Sweeney of Las Vegas four days earlier, and seven-month-old foster child Khloe Williams that afternoon in Clearwater, Florida, under circumstances in each case suggesting significant […]
Pit bull impounded, drifter kills police chief
Stabs chief in sidewalk ambush RODEZ, France––Furious that his pit bull had been impounded a week earlier, on September 18, 2018, homeless drifter Alexandre Dainotti, 39, on September 27, 2018 reportedly drank two cups of coffee at a sidewalk café while waiting in ambush for Rodez police chief Pascal Filoé, then fatally stabbed Filoé from behind […]
Gambling––on dogs & dollars––erodes animal care & control ethic
Embezzling cases & pit bull attack deaths both reflect crap game culture SYRACUSE (NY), DAYTON (OH), COLUMBIA (MD)––The U.S. animal care-and-control community has an untreated gambling problem, getting worse instead of better. In the first half of the 20th century, when humane education was closely linked to moral education, no major humane conference would […]
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