More detailed data on shelter & rescue dogs than ever before Yes, large retrievers including Labradors and goldens are still the most popular dogs in U.S. homes; yes, pit bulls are still the second most numerous dogs in the U.S., counting dogs in custody of shelters and rescues, still bred at a rate of almost […]
Sentencing for “Carefully” pit bull attack death marks start of U.K. dog law debate
“American XL Bully” injured three people in three days, then killed 10-year-old neighbor LONDON, United Kingdom––On Monday, June 6, 2022, the British Parliament heard from pit bull advocates in the House of Commons a litany of familiar arguments against the breed-specific aspects of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. On Friday, June 10, 2022, Brandon Hayden, […]
U.K. Dangerous Dogs Act exempts the two breeds most likely to kill
Two-year-old & 17-month-old are two latest victims of legal omission WORCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom––A pre-inquest review of the March 28, 2022 fatal Rottweiler mauling of two-year-old Lawson Bond, now set for August 31, 2022 in Stourport, is likely to investigate every aspect of Bond’s death except the obvious: that the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, supposed to […]
“Rez dogs” kill two people in two days––but likely were not born there
Deaths underscore that Native American lands are no more an appropriate venue for dumping dangerous dogs than “crazy cat ladies” are for dumping kittens SPIRIT LAKE, North Dakota; MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT, Iowa; TELLICO VILLAGE, Tennessee––Native Americans were the victims of two fatal dog attacks in two days on March 27 and March 28, 2022, on […]
Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”
Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7 DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi, who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,” rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12, 2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]
Cane Corso: A pit bull by any other name
Cane Corso history is not what the “dog literature” says OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Was Gladys, the star rescue dog who killed volunteer Pam Robb on February 17, 2022, really a Cane Corso and not, as ANIMALS 24-7 reported, a “supersized pit bull”? Or is “Cane Corso” really just a sanitized and gentrified name for a common […]
Family Rottweiler raised from pup kills first dog attack victim of 2022, age 7
Three nurses in the victim’s family (See also Rottweiler killing of seven-year-old brings murder charges in Virginia.) WAYNESBORO, Virginia––Seven-year-old Olivia Grace Floyd’s mother, Alicia Floyd, 37, has for almost 17 years been a registered nurse at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisburg, Virginia. Olivia Grace Floyd’s father, Brooks Floyd, 39, is a nurse practitioner in […]
“Wolf dog is doing well” at large, but “For how long?” community wonders
Little Red Riding Hood has not been seen lately OAK HARBOR, Washington––“Wolf dog is doing well,” a would-be rescuer just posted the Whidbey Island Community page on Facebook. The would-be rescuer had snapped a cell phone photo of an immense female probable wolf hybrid who has been running at large for a couple of […]
Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls
“It’s in the book!” ––a 1922 work of fiction The ANIMALS 24-7 obituary for philosopher, teacher, and author Bernard Rollin (1943-2021), posted on November 20, 2021, mentioned that, “His late-career writings about pit bulls, in particular, offered no more than recitations of stock pit bull advocacy rhetoric, little if any of his material originating with […]
Pit bulls, greenhouse gases, & poop: the solution is not dilution
Or, pit bull breeding kennels & the Tower of Babel VAUGHAN, Ontario; CAERPHILLY, Wales; DURBANVILLE, South Africa; OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––“The solution to pollution is dilution,” industrial polluters frequently persuaded politicians, back in the early days of the environmental movement, long before either pit bull attacks or greenhouse gases became a hot public issue. In the […]
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