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Police dog attacks on black children soar in Baton Rouge

February 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

But black cop was disciplined for shooting a pit bull BATON ROUGE,  Louisiana––A Baton Rouge Police Department K9 officer,  on patrol with his dog Mack on the night of January 6,  2021,  “pulled over a suspected stolen white Dodge Ram pick-up truck,” WBRZ-TV reported. “As the two waited for assisting officers to arrive,  police say the […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Abraham Wilson III, Bryn Stole, Grace Toohey, Jerell Hebert, Merritt Clifton, Murphy Paul, Sharon Weston Broome, Silas Clouatre, Thurgood Marshall

Trump allies in the animal world squirm after U.S. Capitol storming

January 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

From “Joe Exotic” to Wayne Pacelle             WASHINGTON D.C.––Soon-to-be-former U.S. President Donald Trump and his die-hard defenders who are now facing criminal charges for storming the U.S. National Capitol building on January 6,  2021 were scarcely the only big losers from the events of the day. Former U.S. Air Force security dog handler Ashli Babbitt,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cats, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Ashli Babbitt, Blair Brandt, Bradley Lane Croft, Brian Sweeney, Donald Trump, Jake Angeli Chansley, Joe Arpaio, Joe Exotic, Lara Trump, Pinky Cole, Raphael Warnock, Slutty Vegan, Stacy Abrams, Wayne Pacelle

Congress rejects immediate repeal of dog breed bans in military housing

January 5, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Army,  U.S. Marine Corps, & U.S. Air Force bans on pit bulls,  Rottweilers,  & wolf hybrids stand,  at least until uniform military policy is adopted             WASHINGTON D.C.––The first U.S. Senate action of the New Year,  on the morning of January 1,  2021,  quietly affirmed for at least 90 days and perhaps indefinitely the […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alaska Airines, base housing, Lara Trump, Merritt Clifton, National Defense Authorization Act, Schofield Barracks, Section 2884, Wounded Warrior

Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft”          WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao,  U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump presidential administration and almost certain to soon leave office,  on November 30,  2020 introduced a revised Air Carrier Access Act regulation on the transportation of service animals by air […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Germany, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Airlines for America, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Lara Trump, Lufthansa, Marlin Tremaine Jackson, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Knight

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

Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war

November 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Jiggs, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin, Stubby

Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace

October 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Donors ignored years of warnings about convict turned “rescue” celebrity LOS ANGELES––Marc Ching,  who in November 2018 offered to sell the city of Los Angeles vegan food for impounded dogs at a substantial discount,  is reportedly to be arraigned in December 2020 on one misdemeanor count each of practicing veterinary medicine without a license,  false advertising,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cambodia, China, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Indonesia, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alene Tchekmedyian, George Knowles, Jeffrey Beri, John Dalley, Marc Ching, Martyn Stewart, Merritt Clifton, Paul Pringle, Phyllis Daugherty

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

North Korean dictator bans pet dogs amid worsening famine

August 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, North Korea, Pacific rim, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Ahn Myong-Chol, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Myong-song, Lee Jae-won, Merritt Clifton, Nina Larson

Triple murder in Frostproof: pig hunting, cockfighting, Publix & pizza

July 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting Tagged With: Brandon Rollins, Damion Tillman, Grady Judd, Keven Springfield, Mary Whittemore, Merritt Clifton, Patrick Robinson, Robert Wiggins, Steve Hindi, Stuart Chaifetz, T.J. Wiggins

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