“Keeping aggressive animals isn’t the solution for lifesaving” ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––“We are warehousing aggressive animals at Brother Wolf when we know this isn’t the solution for lifesaving,” executive director Leah Craig Fieser acknowledged in “Warehousing is not working,” a December 5, 2019 social media statement inspiring heated debate nationwide. “We inherited this way of operating,” Fieser said, […]
Bullhead City shelter break-in: owner & pit bulls on the lam
Pet theft in the 21st century more often involves pit bulls under euthanasia order than laboratory supply BULLHEAD CITY, Arizona––Rhonda Kathrine Johnson, 51, on the lam with her pit bulls Melony and Ginger, sprung on Thanksgiving 2019 from the animal shelter in Bullhead City, Arizona, is unlikely to make the FBI “Ten Most Wanted List.” […]
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 […]
The Third Dog: a mystery featuring 2 deaths, 2 Great Danes, 2 pit bulls, and ???
Female victims died alone, found by husbands minutes apart WAYNESVILLE, Ohio; BAY CITY, Michigan––Police in Waynesville, Ohio and Bay City, Michigan are still trying to unravel the many mysteries surrounding the alleged unwitnessed dog attack deaths of Mary Malissa Matthews, formerly Mary Begovich Evans, 49, and Brandy Joy Boschen O’Dell, 41, more than ten […]
Pit bull kills guest in home of HSUS Connecticut state rep Anne Hornish
Hornish claims fatal attack was only an “enthusiastic” greeting SUFFIELD, Connecticut–– Even after Dexter the alleged pit bull/pointer mix fatally injured Janet D’Aleo, 95, on November 6, 2019 in the home of Anne Hornish, Connecticut senior state director for the Humane Society of the U.S., Hornish remained in adamant denial about the threats pit bulls […]
Pit bulls: An active 40+ year shelter director speaks out too, by Debra Boswell
“Thank you so much, Deborah Turner!” Thank you so much, Deborah Turner, for your truthful and informative ANIMALS 24-7 guest column Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last. I have been the director at a large open admission shelter in the south, the Mississippi Animal Rescue League in Jackson, Mississippi, since […]
Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last, by Deborah Turner
“All dogs should be recognized as individuals,” but what of the victims? Last week (and practically every week) a prominent animal welfare group talked on Facebook about how nearly all shelters now agree that all dogs should be recognized as individuals and no breed is inherently aggressive. Really? Humans have been breeding dogs for specific […]
Hazel Park undid pit bull bylaw that should have saved 4-year-old
“National Pit Bull Awareness Month” 2019 began & ended with fatal maulings HAZEL PARK, Michigan––October 2019, designated the thirteenth annual “National Pit Bull Awareness Month” by pit bull advocates, closed much as it opened, with a blood-red sunset over Hazel Park, Michigan, barely 30 hours after four-year-old Benjamin Cobb was fatally mauled in his […]
Michigan hero takes on pit bull advocacy with a song & a trash can
Oneil Colley serenades Michigan lawmakers for Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day LANSING, Michigan––In the Michigan state capital, at least, Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day on October 25, 2019 upstaged National Pit Bull Awareness Day, both officially celebrated a day later. National Pit Bull Awareness Day, held annually since 2007 to whitewash the public image […]
Fur sales, wildlife acts, & hiding dog bite history banned in California
Fur-bearing animals & adopters of shelter/rescue dogs win protections SACRAMENTO, California––The new animal-related law in California that Governor Gavin Newsom and mass media said least about, to help protect Californians against recklessly rehomed dogs with bite history, may in the end become the most emulated among the raft of bills sent to Newsom’s desk […]
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