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“Personal protection dogs” kill two in Knoxville suburbs in under 100 days

June 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Two Rottweilers & a “highly trained” Dutch shepherd maul septuagenarians             KNOXVILLE, Tennessee––Dogs apparently acquired for personal protection have twice in under 100 days killed older female family members in the rural outer suburbs of Knoxville,  Tennessee.             The fatal attacks underscore that dogs are a poor choice of weapon,  partly because dogs can “pull […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Deborah Reeser Boyd, Janet Means, Merritt Clifton, Roger L. Means, Roveldeco, Tellico Village

Malcolm X on pit bulls, other dangerous dogs, & betrayal

May 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Malcolm X said little about dogs,  yet his whole message was directly relevant             NEW YORK,  N.Y.–– February 21,  2022 will mark the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Afro-American leader Malcolm X at the former Audubon Ballroom in New York City,  now preserved as the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Police & military, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Audubon, Betty Shabazz, Fred Shuttleworth, Malikah Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, U-Haul

Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

Pit bull hoarder Heidi Lueders jailed;  bad day at Black Rock Canines

May 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Ex-Bully Breed Rescue president sentenced;  cop charged who ran police & military dog training center  BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut––One high-profile Connecticut mass cruelty case involving high-risk “status dogs” ended on May 4,  2022––pending appeals––just as another began,  20 miles north. The permanent status of five former Bully Breed Rescue pit bulls is dead. Likewise for at least […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Celly Roberts, Daniel Luna, David Rivera, Fairfield Five, Merritt Clifton, Peter McShane

Police dog bites soar in Richmond, California; city tries to hide the data

December 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Richmond has long history of controversial police use of violence RICHMOND, California––Praised in 2018 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for significantly decreasing use of force without increasing officer fatalities,  the Richmond,  California police department is now under fire from critics for a marked rise in bites by police dogs,  many of them severe,  most of them […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Black Panthers, Harriet Blair Brown, James Fuller, Julia Prodis Sulek, Marshall Project, Merritt Clifton

Bestiality & child porn: ex-K9 cop Terry Yetman gets 20 years

November 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly had sex with police dog             BOSSIER CITY,  Louisiana––Former Bossier City police officer and K9 handler Terry Yetman,  40,  was on November 23,  2021 sentenced to serve at least 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in August 2021 to six of the 71 counts he faced in connection with alleged acts of bestiality […]

Filed Under: Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bossier City, Judge Michael Craig, Merritt Clifton, Trey Hutchison, Vickie Wellborn

Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls

November 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“It’s in the book!” ––a 1922 work of fiction The ANIMALS 24-7 obituary for philosopher,  teacher,  and author Bernard Rollin (1943-2021),  posted on November 20,  2021,  mentioned that,  “His late-career writings about pit bulls, in particular,  offered no more than recitations of stock pit bull advocacy rhetoric,  little if any of his material originating with […]

Filed Under: Activism, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Police & military, Service dogs, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bernard Rollin, Clarence Hawkes, Lilian Rant, Merritt Clifton

Animal & human heroes & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11

September 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering national trauma September 11,  2021 marks the twentieth 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,  and […]

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

Police dog attacks on black children soar in Baton Rouge

February 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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

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