Pit bull fatality followed BSL repeal in Moses Lake in 2020, & now in Kennewick, 75 miles south on Washington state route 395, in 2023 KENNEWICK, Washington––The September 21, 2023 death of Billene “Billi” Cameron, 65, demonstrated yet again the strong likelihood that a community that repeals breed-specific restrictions of possession of pit bulls […]
Pit bulls kill 2 women, 2 days apart. Small town cares; does Toledo?
Response to fatal pit bull attacks in Genoa, Arkansas, and Toledo, Ohio, could scarcely be more different. GENOA, Arkansas; TOLEDO, Ohio––Fatally mauled by pit bulls in their own yards two days apart, on September 24, 2023 and September 26, 2023, respectively, Brenda Lynn Witt, 60, of Genoa, Arkansas, and Diane Etta Knepper, 70, of Toledo, […]
$1.62 million award against rescue for fostering out vicious pit bull
Record award in fostering case remains lower than record awards in cases involving adoption and shelter volunteer HACKENSACK, New Jersey––A $1.62 million settlement to be paid by Eleventh Hour Rescue, of Flanders, New Jersey, to pit bull attack victim Carol Olsen, 59, of Midland Park, New Jersey, appears to be the highest disclosed payout […]
U.K. to ban American Bully XL pit bulls, prime minister Sunak pledges
“I share the nation’s horror,” says Rishi Sunak LONDON, U.K.––United Kingdom prime minister Rishi Sunak on September 15, 2023 announced that his government intends to add the American Bully XL to the short list of dog breeds prohibited by the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. “I share the nation’s horror at the recent videos we’ve all […]
Cane Corsos & pit bulls killed two 93-year-old women in two weeks
CDC belatedly admits that fatal dog attacks are starkly up, but does not acknowledge that bully breeds are doing 90% of the killing MODESTO, California––The demographic odds were 380-to-one against two consecutive dog attack fatalities being 93-year-old women who were minding their own business in their own yards when mauled, 2,000 miles away from each […]
RSPCA trumps Dogs Trust & Kennel Club in political hypocrisy contest
Dogs Trust & Kennel Club quietly omit “bully breeds” from politicians’ “Dog of the Year” vote. Royal SPCA rehomes bully breeds but does not insure them. LONDON, United Kingdom––Amid ongoing heated national debate over proposed amendments to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, either to expand the list of prohibited dogs to include the pit bull […]
Pit bull death of 93-year-old woman ends streak of 4 killings of adult men
All four men were alone & apparently unarmed when pit bulls killed them BLYTHEVILLE, Arkansas––The August 15, 2023 death of Jeane Bennett, 93, the 40th U.S. dog attack fatality of the year and the 34th killed by pit bulls, broke a streak of four consecutive fatal attacks on healthy adult males. Both the total number […]
Rabies deaths up sixfold in India in 2022, but were still far below claims
Toll of 307 is magnitudes of order less than alleged by global organizations NEW DELHI, India––The bad news from Singh Baghel, Indian minister of state for health and family welfare, is that rabies killed 307 people in India in 2022, the highest confirmed death toll according to Central Bureau of Health Intelligence data since rabies […]
Abstracts of 16 breed-specific medical studies of dog attack injury
Compiled by Gaye Fisher for ANIMALS 24-7. Editors’ note: While pit bull advocates and organizations mass-produce a blizzard of papers published in “soft science” journals purporting that pit bulls and other “bully breeds” are “safe,” hard data published in leading medical journals is unequivocal: pit bulls and other “bully breeds” do more severe damage, more […]
Fourth of July body count: 1 death by bull, 2 by pit bulls, 1 by alligator
Murders soared, Canada Day through July 4, 2023, but animals killed humans at even faster pace With some reports perhaps yet to arrive, the animals-against-humans tally for the four-day 2023 Canada Day/Fourth of July weekend appears to been one death by bull, two by pit bulls, and one by an alligator. In view that there […]