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Deaths in Tahiti: pit bull mayhem hits “tropical paradise”

May 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Pacific islands & other, Street dogs Tagged With: Brigitte Bardot, George Calderon, James Cook, Joseph Banks, Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint, Merritt Clifton, Ramon Taihotua

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

Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last, by Deborah Turner

November 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“All dogs should be recognized as individuals,”  but what of the victims? Last week (and practically every week) a prominent animal welfare group talked on Facebook about how nearly all shelters now agree that all dogs should be recognized as individuals and no breed is inherently aggressive. Really?  Humans have been breeding dogs for specific […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Deborah Turner

Michigan hero takes on pit bull advocacy with a song & a trash can

October 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Oneil Colley serenades Michigan lawmakers for Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day             LANSING, Michigan––In the Michigan state capital,  at least,  Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day on October 25,  2019 upstaged National Pit Bull Awareness Day,  both officially celebrated a day later. National Pit Bull Awareness Day,  held annually since 2007 to whitewash the public image […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Ann Marie Rogers, Colleen Lynn, Ethan Storey, Merritt Clifton, Oneil Colley, Paige Woody, Tom Colvin, Zoey Green

Pit bulls: new gene study shows it is NOT “all in how you raise them”

October 14, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Aggression starts from inherited traits             SEATTLE, Washington––The dogma that dog aggression,  especially pit bull aggression,  is “all in how you raise them” is again refuted by science,  but the average reader will have a hard time deciphering the message from the highly technical report “Highly heritable and functionally relevant breed differences in dog behavior,”  […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Uncategorized, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bob Yirka, Elizabeth Pennisi, Evan L. MacLean, James A. Serpell, Merritt Clifton, Noah Snyder-Mackler Bridgett M. vonHoldt

District Attorney will not prosecute alleged bull-baiting at Salinas rodeo

September 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Monterey County SPCA does not speak up,  either             SALINAS,  California––The 2019 California Rodeo Salinas ended on July 19,  2019,  but the stench of manure––bovine,  equine,  and canine––lingers on above the Salinas Sports Complex. The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office,  headed since January 2019 by longtime California Rodeo Salinas volunteer Jeannine Pacioni,  reportedly recently rendered […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benjamin Bonneville, Jeannine Pacioni, Martin Opseth, Merritt Clifton, Richard Henry Dana, Steve Hindi

Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy

September 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Looking at normal dogs’ brains shows how “fighting breed” brains differ             BOSTON,  POMONA––There may already be weeping and gnashing of teeth among pit bull advocates,  and perhaps significant fundraising underway to trump up rebuttals,  too,  following the September 2,  2019 Journal of Neuroscience publication of “Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds,”  by Harvard […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Science, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Beth Clifton, Erin Hecht, John D. Johnson, John P. Colby, Kristopher Irizarry, Laura Sanders, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Voith

Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull victim?

August 25, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Emma Hernandez,  9,  was the latest sacrifice to dangerous dogs             DETROIT,  Michigan––The “Motown sound” today,  sixty years after Detroit music entrepreneur Berry Gordy Jr. formed the Motown Record Corporation,  is all too often the bloodcurdling shriek of a child fighting a dog of notoriously dangerous breed for her life,  the wail of parents finding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Craig Sytsma, Emma Hernandez, JoAnn Watson, Kyle Holland, Merritt Clifton, Pierre Cleveland, Xavier Strickland

SHARK video shows dogs baiting bulls at Calif. Salinas Rodeo 2019

August 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Fans watched dogs torment bulls in the main arena after official events             SALINAS, California––The 109th California Rodeo Salinas had nearly ended on Sunday,  July 19,  2019.  The loudspeaker was still announcing the last “bullfighting” events,  in which “rodeo clowns” tease young bulls who are already agitated by bucking straps cinched tightly around their waists.  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & standards, Other animal fighting, Other spectacles, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Uses of dogs, Welfare Tagged With: Benjamin Bonneville, Merritt Clifton, Richard Henry Dana, Richard of Wyche, Steve Hindi, Tim Eastman

2 pit bulls, 29 dead cats, but Dothan changes topic to fundraising

July 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Overnight shelter massacre             DOTHAN, Alabama––Changing the subject from how two pit bulls killed 29 cats to appealing for multi-millions of dollars to build a new animal shelter took Dothan,  Alabama city officials barely seconds on July 25,  2019. Dothan Animal Shelter staff found the 29 cats mauled to death when they arrived for work […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adrianne Woodroff, Jere Alexander, Jerome Wesley Hughes, Joey Stenn, Johnny Ray Lewis, Merritt Clifton, Robert Earl Lawrence, William Henry Roberson

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