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 […]
George Santos was a small-timer among animal charity scammers
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 […]
Soccer hero Philemon Mulala is latest South African pit bull victim
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 […]
Pit bulls allowed to run loose bring 1st fatality & 1st near-fatality of 2023
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 […]
Dogs killed 62 Americans & three Canadians in 2022; pit bulls killed 41
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. […]
10-year totals: pit bulls kill 81% of pets & livestock animals killed by dogs
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 […]
Pit bull owner charged with culpable homicide in South Africa
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 […]
International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87
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, […]
No jail at Christmas 2022 for hoarder busted at Christmas 2019
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 […]
What’s worse than coal for Christmas? 10 years for dogfighting!
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. […]
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