French fatality, still under investigation, echoes & contrasts with U.S. cases BEAUVAIS, OISE, France; CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio; PORTSMOUTH, Virginia; ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––Curtis, the pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski in the Retz Forest near Soissons, France, on November 16, 2019, also injured her fiancé Christopher Ellul at the police station on the evening of […]
Feds crack door to banning pit bulls from airliners
But rulemakers lean the other way. Pit bull advocates celebrate “victory” while the fight has just begun. WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. federal Department of Transportation secretary Elaine L. Chao on January 22, 2020 cracked the door open to allowing airlines to ban pit bulls and other dangerous dog breeds from passenger cabins, even if those dogs […]
Deaths by pit bull: will new California law slow the mayhem?
Prosecuting shelters for withholding bite history might be a start DAYTON, Ohio; CONWAY, Kentucky; LOS ANGELES, California––The first two U.S. dog attack fatalities to be reported in 2020, both involving pit bulls, upstaged the possibly more indicative resignations of two strong pit bull advocates from senior positions with Los Angeles Animal Services and Orange […]
Record pit bull attacks on other animals in 2019, pro football, & the Titanic
Trent Williams case appears to exemplify national trend MISSOURI CITY, Texas––Pit bulls appear to have killed 50,541 other animals in 2019, the most ever, including 9,976 other dogs, 4,092 cats, and 27,450 other pets, poultry, and hoofed species, according to the seventh annual ANIMALS 24-7 projection from reported cases. Pit bulls accounted for 91% […]
Dog attack deaths & maimings, U.S. & Canada, 1982-2019 log
Pit bulls killed 33 of 46 U.S. victims of fatal dog attacks in 2019
Two pit bulls ended last victim’s troubled life in a Houston ditch HOUSTON, Texas––Medessa Jean Ragsdale, 44, the last identified dog attack fatality of 2019, had few other distinctions in life, but most certainly did not want that one. Ragsdale, as a 19-year-old high school junior in Hutchinson, Kansas, received a brief mention in the […]
Pit bulls kill four in eight days approaching Christmas 2019
2019 pit bull fatalities & total dog attack deaths surpass 2018 with 10 days left in the year Hopes that the decline in U.S. pit bull-inflicted human fatalities from a record 40 in 2017 to 32 in 2018 might mark the beginning of a downward trend were dashed by four deaths in eight days, from […]
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.” […]
Brother Wolf: “Warehousing is not working,” says director of no-kill experiment
“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, […]
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 […]
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