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, […]
Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls
“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 […]
The Rottweilers in my life: that could have been me
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 […]
Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s mother & a Dutch witness speak
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 […]
Second Finn dog study conflates defensive behavior with aggression
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 […]
Three pit bull-related deaths in three days ended April 2021
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 […]
Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s boyfriend Christophe Ellul indicted for manslaughter
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 […]
Will Rogers never met the pit bulls & “dog men” now terrorizing Oklahoma
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 […]
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