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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

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

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

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

“Animals & thugs”: horses, dogs, police & the George Floyd protests

June 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Police & military, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs, Working horses Tagged With: Abené Clayton, Art Acevedo, Brianna Noble, Daniel Bornstein, Derek Chauvin, Emily Somers, George Floyd, Joseph Malott, Mike O’Meara, Sarah Emrick, Sydney Trent, Tom Symonds, Tyler D. Parry

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

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

The animal & human heroes & most overlooked lesson of 9/11

September 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering national trauma Today,  September 11,  2019,  marks the eighteenth anniversary of the national trauma the U.S. experienced as result of the terrorist attacks of September 11,  2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The aftermath of those attacks brought global traumas including ongoing warfare in much of the Middle East,  Central Asia, […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: David Charlebois, Flight 77, Flight 93, Garo Alexanian, Merritt Clifton, North Shore Animal League, Osama bi Laden, Perry Fina, Suffolk County SPCA

Did Louisiana cop Terry Yetman do the dog?  If so,  why?

December 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Bestiality bust just before Christmas went viral BOSSIER CITY,  Louisiana––The animal story most often read,  worldwide,  during the five days before Christmas 2018 had nothing to do,  so far as is known,  with reindeer,  and probably nothing to do with donkeys,  lambs,  or wise men on camels,  either,  though the full details are yet to […]

Filed Under: Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Police & military, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Crystal Bonvillian, Douglas Spink, Jenny Edwards, Kenneth Pinyan, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Trey Huchison

Trainer who pushed pit bulls for police work indicted for fraud

August 25, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal Farm Foundation funded suspect to boost the image of pit bulls             MONTREAL,  SAN ANTONIO––The pit bull advocacy organization Animal Farm Foundation,  of Bangali,  New York,  had already had a difficult week,  even before a federal grand jury in San Antonio,  Texas on August 23,  2018 returned an indictment against Bradley Croft,  46,  on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Shelters, The Americas, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bradley Croft, Étienne Paré, Frances Richardson, Guillermo Contreras, Merritt Clifton, Stacey Coleman, Tristan Péloquin, Universal K-9

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