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

March 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

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 Top, 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

Pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin could get 81 years for killing dogs & fraud

August 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Bond of $200,000 set for “The hot dog man,” allegedly caught hot dogging a few times too often  MARYSVILLE, Ohio­­––Bond of $200,000 was set on August 5,  2020 for high-profile pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin by Judge Mark O’Connor of the Common Pleas Court in Union County,  Ohio. Arrested on July 23,  2020 in Acton,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, Training, USA Tagged With: Angelo and Litsa Kargakos, Brenda Barnette, Eileen Jefferson, Jacqeline Bedsaul Johnson, Jeffery Luke Westerman, Kristen Auerbach, Mac Cordell, Merritt Clifton, Saskia Boisot, Sharon Logan, Steffen Evan Baldwin, Steffen Evan Finkelstein

Pit bull or hunting hounds? Who killed Elisa Pilarski & unborn child Enzo?

April 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

DNA data may decide which dog did the killing,  but maybe not who was at fault SOISSONS,  France––Pack hunters and pit bull enthusiasts are pitted against each other in a melodrama gripping French media since November 16,  2019,  when someone’s dog or dogs killed Elisa Pilarski,  29,  six months pregnant. Anxiously awaited DNA test results […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Show, Training Tagged With: Antoine Gallon, Brigitte Bardot, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Frédéric Trinh, Merritt Clifton

Fox hunters run amok despite unenforced British hunting ban

February 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds kills even more foxes              LONDON––On February 18,  2020,  the 15th anniversary of the Hunting Act coming into effect in England and Wales,  supposedly banning fox hunting by riders on horseback galloping after hounds,  “The Wynnstay Hunt deliberately killed a fox in the private garden of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Dog use, Dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Religion & philosophy, Training, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andy Knott, Eduardo Goncalves, Jason Endfield, Jordi Casamitjana, Lee Moon, Merritt Clifton, Peter Egan

Feds crack door to banning pit bulls from airliners

January 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But rulemakers lean the other way.  Pit bull advocates celebrate “victory” while the fight has just begun.        WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. federal Department of Transportation secretary Elaine L. Chao on January 22, 2020 cracked the door open to allowing airlines to ban pit bulls and other dangerous dog breeds from passenger cabins, even if those dogs […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Service dogs, Training, USA Tagged With: Elaine L. Chau, Marlin Tremaine Jackson, Merritt Clifton

Convicted of G.I. Bill fraud: trainer who prepped pit bulls for police work

December 20, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Must forfeit $1.3 million for scamming feds & veterans             SAN ANTONIO,  Texas––Bradley Lane Croft,  48,  whom the pit bull advocacy organization Animal Farm Foundation funded from 2013 to 2017 to prepare pit bulls for police work,  was on December 18, 2019 ordered to forfeit more than $1 million in assets to the federal government,  following […]

Filed Under: Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bradley Lane Croft, Guillermo Contreras, Judge David A. Ezra, Merritt Clifton, Stacey Coleman

Houston dog fancier killed: “Before pit bulls, it was Dobermans”?

February 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Elaine Richman killing resembled the 1955 & 1960 attacks that made Dobermans  infamous HOUSTON, Texas––Found dead in her Houston back yard on February 8,  2019,  Doberman enthusiast Elaine Richman,  66,  most likely succumbed to severe facial wounds and apparent defensive wounds to her hands and arms. “Preliminary autopsy results list a sharp force injury as […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Training, USA Tagged With: Elaine Richman, Frances Tetreault, Karl Dobermann, Kiyana McNeal, Merritt Clifton, Virginia Kraft Payson, Winifred Bacon

Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy

February 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Murder-by-dog convict Marjorie Knoller is denied parole SACRAMENTO––The California Board of Parole Hearings on February 7,  2019 denied parole to Marjorie Knoller,  64,  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 will be allowed to seek parole […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Dale Bretches, Diane Whipple, Jean Donaldson, Marjorie Knoller, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, Richard Avanzino, Robert Noel, Sharon Smith

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