Fourth South African pit bull fatality in 10 days News analysis by Beth Clifton “We can’t live like this in a world where dogs eat children,” pit bull owner Mokete Selebano of Phomolong township, South Africa, told BBC News reporter Vumani Mkhize, a week after Selebano on November 21, 2022 saw a neighbor’s two pit […]
Baby is 3rd South African killed by pit bull in 9 days; calls for ban rise
“Never aggressive to me, but killed two other dogs,” says owner EAST LONDON, South Africa––Fifteen-month-old Reuben le Roux on November 23, 2022 became the third South African child killed by pit bulls in nine days. The attack whetted public demands for a national pit bull ban and further mobilized pit bull advocates in defense of […]
Pit bull attacks inflame pit bull lynchings in South African shantytowns
Four pit bulls burned by two mobs, 800 miles apart, after the pits killed one child and nearly killed another CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Inter-racial friction, a legacy of the continuing use of fierce dogs to defend white privilege, decades after apartheid ended, smoldered just beneath the remains of four pit bulls lynched and burned by […]
87,570 South Africans petition for pit bull ban after most recent fatalities
Firefighter leads response to deaths of eight-year-old and 10-year-old BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa––The two most recent South African pit bull fatalities differed little from dozens of others, both in South Africa and around the world, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, India, and South America. This time, though, the South African response, though, has […]
Tyson executive bust upstages three dog attack fatalities in a week
Mauling death of child just a few miles away gets less coverage than John Tyson’s pants SPRINGDALE, Arkansas––The November 6, 2022 arrest of Tyson Foods chief financial officer John Tyson, 32, might be said to have upstaged the Tyson Foods slaughter of 155,000 cows, 461,000 pigs, and 45 million chickens during the next week, a […]
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Council Bluff pit bull ban
Highest court ruling yet on breed-specific legislation favors it ST. LOUIS, Missouri––A three-judge panel from the St. Louis-based, conservative-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on November 10, 2022 unanimously delivered the strongest judicial affirmation yet of the constitutionality of breed-specific dog legislation, including outright bans on the possession and sale of pit […]
Drivers Jamie Burnam & Pam Rock, killed by dogs, exemplify rising trend
Attacks on mail carriers nearly double in 18 years EXCELSIOR, Missouri––Jamie Burnam, 49, the Amazon delivery driver killed by dogs in Excelsior, Missouri, on October 24, 2022, was known to fellow delivery drivers and Heartland Delivery Services dispatcher Neashya Wright for conscientious work, including safety awareness. That did not save him from the German shepherd […]
Record 58 dead from dog attacks in 2022 with two months to go
Amazon delivery driver is 58th death, Rottweiler owner convicted of double mauling, Pahrump breeder/hoarder loses possession of 300 Ovarchkas, & pit bull attack survivor Kyleen Waltman found in possession of meth, all in just four days EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Missouri; ALPHARETTA, Georgia; PAHRUMP, Nevada; ABBEVILLE, South Carolina––An Amazon delivery driver whose name has yet to be […]
“The Conversation” & the pit bull shit
Five howling factual errors in just the first three lines The Conversation, an online periodical publishing only academic authors, claiming to reach more than 10 million people throughout the English-speaking world, prides itself on fact-checking and peer-reviewed content, albeit allowing little or no opportunity for non-academics to respond to errors and offer corrections. The Conversation […]
Vicky Crosetti, 66: “She was a good friend,” to animals & humans
ANIMALS 24-7 founding board member KNOXVILLE, Tennessee––Vicky Crosetti, for 19 years executive director of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley and a founding member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors, died on January 22, 2020, after a multi-year fight against lung cancer and a variety of other serious health issues. Crosetti would have […]
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