Count Dracula meets the Greyhound of the Baskervilles SACRAMENTO, California––California, the only U.S. state that closely regulates the veterinary blood product industry, as of January 1, 2022 will have a new regulatory regime for sourcing canine blood products for the third time in 20 years. California governor Gavin Newsom on October 9, 2021 endorsed […]
Lifelong safe dog advocate could not save mother from Rottweiler
Ann Marie Rogers tried, but family did not heed warnings BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan––Ben and probably Wren, two family Rottweilers, on September 2, 2021 fatally mauled Sally Fredrica Rogers, 91, on her daughter Susan Rogers’ back deck in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, an outlying Detroit suburb. Standing just 4’11”, suffering from memory impairment and other conditions […]
Why Rottweilers are as deadly as pit bulls (2021 update)
Neither Rotts nor pits should ever be considered “safe” FRESNO, California––Five fatal Rottweiler attacks in the U.S. during the first 242 days of 2021, four on toddlers and one on 91-year-old Sally Fredrica Rogers of Bloomfield Township, Michigan, followed essentially the same pattern of warnings, denial, and eventual tragedy as most of those that came […]
The Rottweilers in my life: that could have been me
by Beth Clifton Listening to our friend Ann Marie Rogers describe how two family Rottweilers on September 2, 2021 killed her mother, Sally Fredrica Rogers, 91, was among my most emotionally troubling hours in a lifetime as former police officer, animal control officer, and vet tech; animal rescuer; and now as ANIMALS 24-7 co-editor whose […]
What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?
Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs, ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013, during the U.S. occupation, when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]
Jen gets 10: Colorado pit bull defense lawyer sentenced for hit plot
Jennifer Edwards Emmi goes to the pound for dangerous behavior GOLDEN, Colorado–– Jefferson County First Judicial District Judge Randall C. Arp on August 16, 2021 sentenced pit bull defense lawyer Jennifer Reba Edwards Emmi, 43, to serve ten years in state prison, less 217 days for time already served, on nine felony counts in three […]
Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s mother & a Dutch witness speak
Pit bull owner Christophe Ellul “has to recognize that it was his dog,” says Nathalie Pilarski. PARIS, France––The Amiens Court of Appeal is to rule on July 23, 2021 on a petition from attorney Alexandre Novion, representing pit bull owner Christophe Ellul, seeking to suppress DNA evidence that Ellul’s pit bull Curtis, and Curtis […]
Dog breed census 2021: Labs, hounds top list; pit bulls come in third
The real “face of America’s dog” is not much different from 1900-1950, even if pit bulls are more abundant If someone wrote the sort of demonstrable nonsense about the relative popularity of automobile makes that a fellow named Brett Bachman published on Salon.com on July 4, 2021 about dog demographics, that essay would likely never […]
Spay/neuter popcorn? It’s as real as Alex Pacheco’s s/n cookies!
600 million stray dogs would eat it, & it would not need FDA approval POMPANO BEACH, Florida––Asked a former major financial backer of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, upon receiving founder Alex Pacheco 2021 “summer fundraising drive” appeal for more money with which to develop a spay-and-neuter cookie, “I wonder if he’s tested popcorn? […]
Rottweilers: two fatal attacks & three near-fatalities disclosed in one day
May 2021 dog attack death toll––eight––ties December 2017 record ANGIER, North Carolina; WHITEHALL, Montana; ALPHARETTA, Georgia––Two Rottweiler-inflicted fatalities and three Rottweiler-inflicted near fatalities, all disclosed to media on May 26, 2021, left Rottweilers trailing pit bulls in fatal attacks for the month by a margin of 3-2, and in disfiguring attacks by a margin of […]
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