Quarantine keeps crime in check––for now ROME, CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy––The deadly global COVID-19 pandemic, killing nearly 32,500 Italians to date, might if anything have made Castel Volturno, the unlikely spay/neuter hub of the nation, just a little bit safer. Certainly stay-at-home orders seem to have at least temporarily reduced the mob violence for which […]
Fatal truck crash spotlights lack of attention to safety in dog transport
Pit bull rescue was hauling 48 dogs to Canada SHELLEY, Idaho; PHOENIX, Arizona––Dog rescue-and-rehomers elsewhere around the U.S. on May 20, 2020 celebrated “National Rescue Dog Day.” Many from Phoenix, Arizona, and southern Idaho, however, searched the hills and woods around U.S. Interstate 15 milepost 105, just south of Shelley, Idaho, for nine dogs––mostly […]
Deaths in Tahiti: pit bull mayhem hits “tropical paradise”
Victim survived nuclear bomb tests, but not four Staffordshires and a bull terrier PAPEETE, Tahiti––Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint, 87, was on May 12, 2020 torn apart by four American Staffordshire pit bulls and a bull terrier pit bull variant. She had survived World War II, the 1946 annexation of Polynesia by France, and 193 […]
Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt
Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019 NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began, animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping, wailing, and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]
Got a pit bull, a Rottweiler, or tosa? Insure it or else, says South Korea
Dangerous breeds banned from daycare centers, kindergartens, & elementary schools SEOUL, South Korea––Cracking down on possession of dangerous dogs for the third time in three years, the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food, & Rural Affairs has since April 21, 2020 paired public education about social distancing due to COVID-1 with warnings that a new […]
Death of mail carrier Angela Summers, 45: Chihuahua “pulled the trigger”
Victim was also threatened with pit bull. Alleged killer is charged with murder. INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––Fatally shot on April 27, 2020 by Tony Cushingberry-Mays, 21, who admitted doing the shooting, U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Angela Summers, 45, also died in part because of increasingly militant “blame the victim” attitudes on the part of dog […]
$5 for a cat head: True stories of animal welfare, with hands-on tips for helping animals
by Linda Chitwood Director, The Homeless Animals Relief Project 200 pages, $29.00, c/o HARP, POB 371, Senatobia, MS 38668; https://homelessanimalsreliefproject.org/index.html. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Describing herself as “eighty percent of the way to dead,” longtime Memphis nurse anesthetist Linda Chitwood relocated forty miles south to Senatobia, Mississippi in 1996, apparently expecting to spend a lot […]
Pit bull or hunting hounds? Who killed Elisa Pilarski & unborn child Enzo?
DNA data may decide which dog did the killing, but maybe not who was at fault SOISSONS, France––Pack hunters and pit bull enthusiasts are pitted against each other in a melodrama gripping French media since November 16, 2019, when someone’s dog or dogs killed Elisa Pilarski, 29, six months pregnant. Anxiously awaited DNA test results […]
“Dog breeder from Dallas” directing Trump COVID-19 response?
Labradoodle breeding qualifications as questionable as COVID-19 accomplishments WASHINGTON D.C.––“No, the Trump administration did not put a professional dog breeder from Dallas in charge of COVID-19 response,” huffed Todd J. Gillman, Washington Bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, on April 23, 2020, sounding just a bit defensive of Brian Harrison, 37, a fellow Texan. Contradicting […]
“Dog Bite Awareness Week” 2020: it’s no longer about “prevention”
63 years of “Dog Bite Prevention Week” coincided with decades of denial of breed-specific realities & ever-rising mayhem NEW YORK CITY–– Insurance Information Institute data released to mark “Dog Bite Awareness Week” 2020, April 12-19, shows just a 5% rise in the total number of damage claims filed by victims of dog attacks, 2003-2019, […]
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