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773% rise in fatal & disfiguring pit bull attacks from 2007 to 2014

January 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Totals of all fatal and disfiguring dog attacks since 1982, by breed, appear in the tables below. Absent late reports, such as the belated discovery of a 2014 dog attack victim in early 2015, the dog attack body count for the U.S. and Canada in 2014 is complete, with new record tolls in every category […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Cindy Whisman, Jonathan Quarles Jr., Kara Hartrich, Klonda Richey, Logan Sheppard, Merritt Clifton

Pit bulls, Ann Landers, & Dr. Laura

December 24, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Barbara Kay My first, and arguably most influential, journalistic role model was advice columnist Ann Landers. I discovered her in 1955, when I was a teenager. I liked her crisp, dryly humorous “voice” that radiated moral clarity and common sense in equal measure. Our culture changed dramatically over the years, but Ann remained faithful […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Barbara Kay, Dr. Laura

Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks double

December 4, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Two deaths in ten days COARSEGOLD, California; FORT WASHAKIE, Wyoming; PINE RIDGE, South Dakota––Two fatal dog attacks and one nearly fatal attack within 10 days in November 2014 underscored a marked surge in dog attacks in “Indian country,” and the inefficacy of the methods currently used by Native American tribes and humane societies to try […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, USA Tagged With: calcium chloride, Merritt Clifton, Navajo Nation, Pine Ridge, pit bull attacks, Rosebud Reservation, Ruth Steinberger

Attempt to repeal pit bull ban crushed in Colorado

November 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Nearly 68% of Aurora voters endorsed pit bull ban AURORA, Colorado––Advocates for pet, livestock, and human safety in Aurora, Colorado claimed a resounding win with the November 4, 2014 defeat of a well-funded attempt to repeal the nine-year-old Aurora pit bull bylaw. Asked Aurora ballot question 2D, “KEEPING OF PIT BULLS––Shall the people of Aurora […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Aurora, Daxton's Friends, Dogsbite.org, Jeff Borchardt, Merritt Clifton

When are alleged fighting dogs not pit bulls?

October 22, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

When the Humane Society of the U.S. sends the media release SEVIERVILLE, Tennessee––When are 50 pit bulls seized from an alleged fighting dog breeding kennel in rural Tennessee not pit bulls? When the Humane Society of the U.S. helps with the bust, writes the press release about it,  and distributes it to media nationwide, while […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Aurora, HSUS, Merritt Clifton, Sevierville

Aurora, Colorado: reject risk-taking pit bull advocates’ attempt to gamble with your lives and the lives of your animals

October 14, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

News analysis by Beth Clifton Holding signs mingling patriotic imagery with silhouettes of pit bulls, displaying ear-to-ear crocodilian grins for media, pit bull advocates on October 11, 2014 gathered near Bicentennial Park in Aurora, Colorado, to urge Aurora voters to repeal an alleged pit bull ban. The “ban,” in effect since October 2005, actually just […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters Tagged With: Aurora, Beth Clifton, Emily Ruckle, Gregg Jones, Xavier Benavidez

Three pit bull stories to chew on

October 7, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

News analysis by Barbara Kay  The news cycle of the last two weeks has turned up two remarkable pit bull-related stories in North America, both worthy of editorial mastication, so to speak.  There is a third story, also noteworthy and included below, which didn’t make the mainstream news, but should have. The first story, out […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, The Americas Tagged With: ArtPrize, Barbara Kay, Joan Marie Kowal, Pamela Devitt, Rachel Jensen

“Don’t bully my breed, but we will bully the victims.”

September 30, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Beth Clifton A tribute art memorial entitled “Out of the Blue,” honoring 30 recent victims of fatal dog attacks, was unveiled on September 24, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan by Wyoming,  Michigan resident Joan Kowal as an entry in ArtPrize, an annual outdoor art contest attracting upward of 1,500 entrants and more than 400,000 […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Joan Kowal, pit-bulls

32 years of logging fatal & disfiguring dog attacks

September 27, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

David Glass, 51,   of Lamar, Mississippi, was the 300th person to be fatally mauled by pit bulls in 32 years by Merritt and Beth Clifton David Glass, 51,   of Lamar, Mississippi, on September 21, 2014 became the 300th person to be fatally mauled by pit bulls in the 32 years that I have logged fatal […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters

Three convicted & seven facing trial in death-by-dog cases

September 27, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Murder by dog            LITTLE ROCK,  Ark.;  LOS ANGELES,  Calif.––A jury in Saline County,  Arkansas late on October 8,  2014 convicted Brande Coy, 50, and Emily Coy, 25, of Hot Springs Village of misdemeanor negligent homicide and participating in an unlawful dog attack,  respectively,  for the November 21, 2013 fatal mauling […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Left Tagged With: Alex Donald Jackson, Craig Sytsma, David Glass, Eric Hodges, Javon Dade Jr., Joan Kappen, Merritt Clifton, Steven Hayashi

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