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“Personal protection dogs” kill two in Knoxville suburbs in under 100 days

June 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Two Rottweilers & a “highly trained” Dutch shepherd maul septuagenarians             KNOXVILLE, Tennessee––Dogs apparently acquired for personal protection have twice in under 100 days killed older female family members in the rural outer suburbs of Knoxville,  Tennessee.             The fatal attacks underscore that dogs are a poor choice of weapon,  partly because dogs can “pull […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Deborah Reeser Boyd, Janet Means, Merritt Clifton, Roger L. Means, Roveldeco, Tellico Village

Greyhound racing drug dealer goes down with the industry

January 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Kennel Supply owner Jon Stidham to forfeit more in profits than the Iowa greyhound racing industry has seen in years             CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa––Former Iowa Greyhound Association president Jon Stidham,  57,  who most recently served the association as vice president and treasurer,  on January 5,  2022 pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally dealing drugs,  […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Training Tagged With: F. Montgomery Brown, Jessica Hughes, Jon Stidham, Lee Rood, Merritt Clifton, Robert Hardison

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

November 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Police & military, Service dogs, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bernard Rollin, Clarence Hawkes, Lilian Rant, Merritt Clifton

The Rottweilers in my life: that could have been me

September 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Beth Clifton Listening to our friend Ann Marie Rogers describe how two family Rottweilers on September 2, 2021 killed her mother,  Sally Fredrica Rogers, 91,  was among my most emotionally troubling hours in a lifetime as former police officer,  animal control officer,  and vet tech;  animal rescuer;  and now as ANIMALS 24-7 co-editor whose […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cart dogs, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Shelters, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Sam Kleinfeld

Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s mother & a Dutch witness speak

July 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull owner Christophe Ellul “has to recognize that it was his dog,”  says Nathalie Pilarski.             PARIS, France––The Amiens Court of Appeal is to rule on July 23,  2021 on a petition from attorney Alexandre Novion,  representing pit bull owner Christophe Ellul,  seeking to suppress DNA evidence that Ellul’s pit bull Curtis,  and Curtis […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benoit Blanc, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Merritt Clifton, Nathalie Pilarski, Sharon de Wit

Second Finn dog study conflates defensive behavior with aggression

May 5, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But the Finn study does not discount the influence of genetics on aggression             HELSINKI, Finland––The same Finn researchers who in March 2020 published a study strongly affirming the importance of breeding in dog behavior have in May 2020 published a second analysis of the same data which––at a glance––argues just the opposite. The second […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Scandinavia, Training Tagged With: César Araujo, Emma Hakanen, Hannes Lohi, Jenni Puurunen, Katriina Tiira, Merritt Clifton, Milla Salonen, Salla Mikkola, Sini Sulkama

Three pit bull-related deaths in three days ended April 2021

May 2, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

And pit bull-pushing trainer honored by ASPCA & HSUS gets nearly 10 years in prison FORT WORTH, Texas––Deadly pit bull incidents re-erupted during the last three days of April 2021,  killing two little girls and a 32-year-old man. The pit bull death toll had apparently been indirectly suppressed during the first three months of 2021 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Training, USA Tagged With: Bradley Lane Croft, Cameron Hatfield, Chip Huggins, David Ezra, Elayah Brown, J’Kai DeVaughn, Jayden Belle Henderson, Joe Elmore, Laverna Paniyak, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Clark, Oscar Herrera, Rayden Bruce, Tallulah McGee, Tess Williams, Victoria LaBar

Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s boyfriend Christophe Ellul indicted for manslaughter

March 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Indictment follows 16-month investigation of attack that has been the talk of France             SOISSONS,  France––Christophe Ellul, 46,  boyfriend of November 16,  2019 pit bull attack fatality Elisa Pilarski,  29,  was on March 4,  2021 indicted for manslaughter by Soissons prosecutor Julien Morino-Ros. Pilarski was six months pregnant.  Ellul,  the father of their unborn son […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Training Tagged With: Benoit Blanc, Beth Clifton, Eric Boussuge, Julien Morino-Ros, Le Rallye de la Passion, Merritt Clifton, Nathalie Pilarski, Poitevin hound, Sharon DeWit, Xavier Terquem Adoue

Will Rogers never met the pit bulls & “dog men” now terrorizing Oklahoma

November 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three-year-old suffered 15 skull fractures & broken nose and jaw in Rogers’ tiny home town OOLOGAH, Oklahoma––“No man can be condemned for owning a dog,”  alleged humorist Will Rogers,  who also famously professed to have never met a man he didn’t like. “As long as he has a dog, he has a friend,”  Rogers claimed,  “and […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Breeding, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benjamin Ryan Spence, Curtis C.J. Wickham, Danny DeWayne Burton, Don Mayfield, Earl Tudor, Randy Fox, Shannon White, Sivya Cook-White, Will Rogers

Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight

October 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Public records requests reveal how cops killed Joseph Lee Pettaway;  threatened Steve Hindi MANCHESTER, Kentucky;  MONTGOMERY, Alabama––“White privilege,”  in parts of the rural South,  could be defined as being able to find out through public records requests that corrupt and sadistic cops might want to kill you before they actually do it. This,  anyhow,  appears […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova. Merritt Clifton, Logan Wolfe, Niara Savage, Patrick Robinson, Steve Hindi, Trent Baker, Yvonne Pettaway-Frazie

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