Kim Jong-un reportedly calls dogs “decadent” and a “tainted trend” PYONGYANG, North Korea––Kim Jong-un, 36, ruling North Korea since 2011, has declared pet dogs a “decadent” luxury and a “tainted trend reflecting bourgeois ideology,” according to an August 17, 2020 report published in the English edition of the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo. Founded in 1919, […]
Triple murder in Frostproof: pig hunting, cockfighting, Publix & pizza
Doesn’t everyone order 10 double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s after killing three catfishers? FROSTPROOF, Florida––Brandon Rollins, 27, Keven Springfield, 30, and Damion Tillman, 23, were shot to death at Lake Streety, Florida, on the night of July 17, 2020, much as the three of them had cornered and killed countless feral pigs. But Rollins, Springfield, […]
Did Nagaland ban dog meat, or did a politician just repeat an empty promise?
Advocacy groups in 2020 again claim the same “victory” they claimed in 2016––which never happened KOHIMA, Nagaland, India––Two weeks after Nagaland chief secretary Temjen Toy on July 3, 2020 announced an impending ban on dog meat, in the last part of India where dogs had been legally eaten, how, when, and if the ban […]
COVID-19 boosts Labs, goldens, & small dogs; pit bull breeders crash
“Stay home” orders bring sharp turn toward safe dogs Eighteen of the 28 Americans killed by dogs by the Fourth of July, 2020, including 15 pit bull victims, two killed by mastiffs, and one killed by a Malinois, were killed by their own family dogs in their own homes––a record pace of mayhem in every […]
“Animals & thugs”: horses, dogs, police & the George Floyd protests
Horses & dogs used and misused by both cops & demonstrators NEW YORK, N.Y.–– “Stop treating us like animals and thugs, and start treating us with some respect!” fumed New York Police Benevolent Association president Mike O’Meara to a June 9, 2020 media conference. That was all O’Meara had to say about animals. The passing mention, however, raised […]
Deaths in Tahiti: pit bull mayhem hits “tropical paradise”
Victim survived nuclear bomb tests, but not four Staffordshires and a bull terrier PAPEETE, Tahiti––Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint, 87, was on May 12, 2020 torn apart by four American Staffordshire pit bulls and a bull terrier pit bull variant. She had survived World War II, the 1946 annexation of Polynesia by France, and 193 […]
Got a pit bull, a Rottweiler, or tosa? Insure it or else, says South Korea
Dangerous breeds banned from daycare centers, kindergartens, & elementary schools SEOUL, South Korea––Cracking down on possession of dangerous dogs for the third time in three years, the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food, & Rural Affairs has since April 21, 2020 paired public education about social distancing due to COVID-1 with warnings that a new […]
Pit bull or hunting hounds? Who killed Elisa Pilarski & unborn child Enzo?
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 […]
COVID-19 & “The Next Big One”: Spillover revisited
Science writer David Quammen saw COVID-19 coming COVID-19, though renamed twice just in the first few months of 2020, “is not as novel as you might think,” explained veteran science writer David Quammen in the January 28, 2020 edition of The New York Times. Quammen, 72, was uniquely positioned to comment, not only because he […]
Dog study let pit bull owners lie & still found behavior is breed-specific
Finn study is third in six months to refute the saw that “It’s all in how you raise them.” HELSINKI, Finland––For the third time in six months a major new study of the heritability of dog behavior, published by a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal, has refuted the shibboleth of pit bull advocacy that “It’s all […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 19
- Next Page »