“Fire is always a threat” ORLANDO, Florida; FRISCO, Texas––“We were able to save 45 cats and 26 dogs,” the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando posted to Facebook after a late night fire on September 15, 2021. “We are heartbroken to report that we lost 13 cats and there are four still missing,” the posting […]
Pit bulls: An active 40+ year shelter director speaks out too, by Debra Boswell
“Thank you so much, Deborah Turner!” Thank you so much, Deborah Turner, for your truthful and informative ANIMALS 24-7 guest column Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last. I have been the director at a large open admission shelter in the south, the Mississippi Animal Rescue League in Jackson, Mississippi, since […]
“Worse than chimp attack” pit bull mauling near Pacelle family home
HSUS president’s aged parents live five blocks away NEW HAVEN, Connecticut––Notified by ANIMALS 24-7 at 2:30 p.m. on June 21, 2016 that a woman had been critically injured by two pit bulls the previous evening five blocks from his parents’ home, Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle more than two days after […]
Pit bull attack tests Army will to enforce ban from base housing
U.S. Army slow to release information about the case FORT POLK, Louisiana––A May 22, 2016 pit bull attack on five-year-old Wyatt Herrington of Fort Polk, Louisiana, appears to have evolved into a test of the U.S. Army’s determination to enforce a 2009 ban of pit bulls and several other categories of dangerous dog from […]
What on earth was celebrity dog trainer Cesar Millan thinking?
Simon says, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn what Cesar says.” by Beth Clifton As practically everyone who knows celebrity dog trainer Cesar Millan from a Caesar salad must know by now, the February 26, 2016 episode of the National Geographic channel’s Cesar 911 reality TV series went from demonstrating a really bad […]
Lawyer for the Dog, a novel by Lee Robinson
St. Martin’s Press (c/o MacMillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2015. 230 pages, hardcover. $24.99. Reviewed by Debra J. White Sally Baynard, a former public defender in Charleston, South Carolina, has represented drug dealers, rapists, thieves, murderers and more, but a dog? Never. A Schnauzer named Sherman is at the center of a […]
Blue Buffalo feels the heat from rendered poultry byproducts in dog food
Blue Buffalo admits to using dog food ingredients that it advertised it did not ST. LOUIS, Missouri; WILTON, Connecticut; RANCHO SANTA FE, California––Poultry byproducts are typically rendered into dog food at about 140 degrees Celsius, 284 degrees Fahrenheit. A year after Purina sued Blue Buffalo over alleged false advertising, Blue Buffalo and Blue Buffalo ingredients […]
Pit bulls, immigrants, & the alleged Islamic jihad against dogs
Alexandra Semyonova comments from The Netherlands: Every once in a while allegations that Muslim immigrants to Europe are anti-dog erupt again in the media, sometimes due to a real declaration by a radical Muslim group, but more often due to a widely publicized incident involving someone who happens to be Muslim objecting to the presence of a dog somewhere. […]