Breed Specific Legislation: A Dog’s Dinner by the Royal SPCA of Britain (no individual author credited) Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Free download from: https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/staticImages/Downloads/BSL_Report.pdf The Royal SPCA of Britain could scarcely have chosen a title more dismissive of dog attack victims, both animal and human, under which to try once again to dismantle […]
“ANIMALS 24-7 is right” on pit bulls, says Animal Aid India
An open letter from Animal Aid Unlimited co-founder Erika Abrams Dear ANIMALS 24-7: I want to applaud your perseverance in bringing light to the numerous sorrowful fatal consequences of pit bull/mix attacks. I am aware that you have adversaries who claim among other things that your statistics are questionable; that breed “profiling” is similar to racial […]
Animal control director can be sued for dog attack death, court rules
Mark Kumpf to stand trial in case by survivors of Klonda Richey This is part I of a two-part series. See also Court rejects animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s defenses. DAYTON, Ohio––The Ohio Second Appellate District Court of Appeals on July 29, 2016 overturned an earlier trial court finding that Montgomery County Animal Resources Center director Mark Kumpf […]
Court rejects animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s defenses
Sued for alleged negligence causing death of dog attack victim Klonda Richey This is part II of a two-part series. See also Animal control director can be sued for dog attack death, court rules. Most of the July 29, 2016 Ohio Second Appellate District Court of Appeals finding that Montgomery County Animal Resources Center director Mark Kumpf may […]
Pit bull “raised from a puppy, always inside” kills animal expert
Victim was 500th fatality of molosser-breed dogs since 1982 NEWINGTON, Georgia––Georgia Department of Agriculture meat inspector Michelle Wilcox, 30, on August 2, 2016 “died when her boyfriend’s pit bull mauled her at his home, near Newington,” in rural Screven County, Georgia, reported Dal Cannady of WTOC News. Wilcox, an equestrian who had studied pre-veterinary […]
Which dogs commit serial & rampage maulings?
Why do some dogs attack again & again? “One dog bites, then lets go, or walks away or pulls back on his own,” an ANIMALS 24-7 reader recently asked. “Another dog bites, continues to bite, refuses to let go, and cannot be dragged away. Do you have any stats on that?” Indeed we do, through the efforts […]
Pit bulls now in the “rez dog” gene pool
Seeking a better solution for reservations than culling Part III of a three-part series. See also: 12-pit bull attack on toddler spotlights soaring risk on reservations and Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks triple “The solution,” to dog attacks on Native American reservations, “is to cull the dog population, and provide spay/neuter services […]
Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks triple
Reservation attacks outside the Far North were formerly almost unheard of Part II of a three-part series. See also 12-pit bull attack on toddler spotlights soaring risk on reservations and Pit bulls now in the “rez dog” gene pool. From the first documentation of reservation dog attacks until 2006 most “Indian country” dog attack fatalities and disfigurements involved sled […]
12-pit bull attack on toddler spotlights soaring risk on reservations
Navajo Nation residents are 35 times more likely to be killed by dogs than other Americans Part I of a three-part series. See also: Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks triple and Pit bulls now in the “rez dog” gene pool. WINDOW ROCK, Arizona––Three-year-old Kayden Colter Begay was on July 14, 2016 […]
Can pit bull advocates be trusted to do rabies control?
Fitchburg pit bull attacks raise the question FITCHBURG, Massachusetts––From Fitchburg to Leicester, Massachusetts, both outer suburbs of Boston, is just 24 miles as a fox runs, over hills and through fields, woods, and low-density residential neighborhoods. A rabid fox bit two Leicester residents in March 2016, causing public health authorities to reissue periodic warnings […]