Alabama wolf hybrid baby killing: Jack London knew “bastard wolves” CHELSEA, Alabama––Amid stonewalling by the Shelby County Coroner, Shelby County Sheriff’s Department, and family of the victim, strong circumstantial evidence including matching photographs and property descriptions suggests the three-month-old boy killed by a wolf hybrid on November 30, 2023 in Chelsea, Alabama was Leo Caddel, […]
Police dogs killed by driving into 100º heat index at rush hour with bad AC
Lake Station Police Department helps driver/trainer to evade humane investigation CHICAGO, Illinois––“Parts of the Chicago area are under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories,” warned Eunice Alpasan and Paul Caine of WTTW-Chicago in the early evening of July 27, 2023, “with temperatures expected to top out at 96 degrees, along with a heat index […]
Corpus Christi: 30th U.S. dog attack fatality of 2023 is 21st by pit bull
Corpus Christi animal control chief Joel Sizemore calls pit bull attacks “extremely rare” over victim’s dead body CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—Attacked on May 31, 2023 while dog-sitting her adult daughter’s pit bull, Rita Maria Vasquez, 58, of Corpus Christi, Texas, three days later died from her injuries. Vasquez thus became the 30th U.S. dog attack fatality […]
Beagler fined $10,000––for wildlife trafficking, not for torturing hares
Allegedly hired Maine trappers to supply Massachusetts field trials PORTLAND, Maine––Jon Thomas Rioux, 36, a landscaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, entertained himself and friends for years by setting beagles on snowshoe hares, until, apparently running out of rabbits locally, he ventured more than 150 miles north into Maine to find more. Jon Thomas Rioux might […]
Can hounding help Wyoming pumas evade human hunters & wolves?
If pumas learn from the canine chase, pursuit without being killed might make them more elusive prey CHEYENNE, Wyoming––A new Wyoming state law meant to placate frustrated puma hunters who hunt with dogs might actually benefit pumas more. If, that is, the hunters and their dog packs obey the law. Wyoming governor Mark Gordon on […]
Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy
Murder-by-dog convict Marjorie Knoller is denied parole SACRAMENTO––The California Board of Parole Hearings on February 15, 2022 again denied parole to Marjorie Knoller, 67, convicted of murder-by-dog for the January 26, 2001 death of St. Mary’s College lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, at the door to her San Francisco apartment. Knoller was previously denied parole […]
California bill would halt use of unleashed K-9 dogs in arrests & crowd control
Use of dogs in search & rescue, explosives detection, narcotics detection & use of leashed dogs would be unaffected SACRAMENTO, California––A first-in-the-U.S. California state assembly bill to “prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control” was introduced […]
Pahrump dog breeders Platunov & Higgins allegedly starved 300 Ovarchkas
Having one of the worst-ever neglect cases in Nye County, Nevada, is not easy PAHRUMP, Nevada––Caucasian Ovcharka breeders Vasili Platunov and Oksana Higgins strung the authorities of Nye County, Nevada along for years with one excuse after another for failing to comply with some of the lightest and least enforced animal care and control ordinances in the […]
“Personal protection dogs” kill two in Knoxville suburbs in under 100 days
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 […]
Greyhound racing drug dealer goes down with the industry
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, […]