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How many other animals did dogs––& pit bulls––kill in 2021?

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Social distancing again suppressed the totals,  but pit bulls still accounted for 84% of all animals killed by dogs Again in 2021,  as in 2020,  social distancing practiced due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic kept people and dogs home much more often than in previous years. This trend held reported dog attacks on other animals […]

Will there be a Tomb of the Unknown Pit Bull Victim? Body count 2021

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Dog attack death toll fell just short of a new record             CHICAGO, Illinois––Ten days after the December 28,  2021 death of the apparent last fatal dog attack victim of the year,  ANIMALS 24-7 still has not found the identity of the 34-year-old male victim,  despite many hours of searching death records,  social media postings,  […]

Police dog bites soar in Richmond, California; city tries to hide the data

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Richmond has long history of controversial police use of violence RICHMOND, California––Praised in 2018 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for significantly decreasing use of force without increasing officer fatalities,  the Richmond,  California police department is now under fire from critics for a marked rise in bites by police dogs,  many of them severe,  most of them […]

Heather Pingel death protecting child echoes the Daxton Borchardt case

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Pingel died eight days after rescuing son from pit bull,  on what would have been Daxton’s 10th birthday             WAUSAU,  Wisconsin––Heather Pingel, 35,  of Bowler,  Wisconsin,  mauled by a pet pit bull on December 8,  2021 while rescuing her four-year-old son from attack,  died eight days later at the Aspirus Wausau Hospital from injuries including […]

Four court cases lost amid the Rittenhouse/Arbery media blitz

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Even coverage of the $15 million Elijah McClain settlement mostly omitted the vegan aspect Court news dominated mass media during the two weeks preceding Thanksgiving 2021,  but key developments in three cases long followed by ANIMALS 24-7 barely cracked even local news lineups. Coverage of a fourth case,  a $15 million settlement between the City of Aurora,  […]

Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls

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“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 […]

Bernard Rollin, 78, addressed the big issues but often fumbled the facts

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Author of Animal Rights & Human Morality and The Unheeded Cry FORT COLLINS,  Colorado––Bernard Elliot Rollin,  Ph.D.,  78,  better known as just Bernie Rollin,  died on November 19,  2021. Remembered and appreciated as an entertaining,  provocative,  and often persuasive bridge among the animal rights,  animal welfare,  academic,  veterinary,  and legal communities during his 51 years […]

Namibia reports oral rabies vaccination breakthrough for street dogs

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Oral vaccine achieves up to 78% immunization of dogs who cannot otherwise be vaccinated             WINDHOEK, Namibia––The Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water & Land Reform on November 11,  2021 told the Chinese national news agency Xinhua that it had successfully completed a first field trial of an oral rabies vaccine for dogs. The Namibian field […]

Pit bulls, greenhouse gases, & poop: the solution is not dilution

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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 […]