Father injured too, but Colorado liability limit keeps lawyers from taking their case CASTLE ROCK, Colorado––The injustice to victims inherent in current dog bite and civil liability law has seldom been more blatantly illustrated than in the case of Nicholas and Lily Dean, father and daughter, spotlighted by Michael Abeyta for CBS Colorado on […]
Animal & human heroes, Charlie Kirk, & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering & revisiting national trauma The September 10, 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder, evangelist, and conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University for many Americans upstaged the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Understandably so; a third of all Americans were […]
Animal & human heroes, Charlie Kirk, & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering & revisiting national trauma The September 10, 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder, evangelist, and conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University for many Americans upstaged the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Understandably so; a third of all Americans were […]
Baby-killing Malinois & upcoming U.K. election put XL Bully ban on trial
Or might Malinois be banned too? COVENTRY, United Kingdom––The first Malinois fatality on record in the United Kingdom immediately sparked public discussion as to whether the list of dogs prohibited under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 should be expanded for the second time in less than a year to try to forestall Malinois proliferation. Surfacing […]
Ten fatal dog attacks come to light in two weeks, eight ignored by media
Five killed by pit bulls, two by pair of Rottweilers, one each by Cane Corsos, Presa Canario & police dog PORTSMOUTH, Virginia; VANCOUVER, British Columbia––Cindy White, 52, killed by three pit bulls on April 12, 2024 in Portsmouth, Virginia, was the second U.S. and Canadian dog attack fatality in a two-week span, following the […]
First firestorm, then frustration: rescuers wait to aid Lahaina animals
Priority goes to finding human dead rather than to rescuing live animals KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii––Five days into the aftermath of the firestorm that razed Lahaina, shock, sorrow, and anxiety over the fate of nearly 1,000 missing persons from the town that had a human population of just over 13,000 remain the dominant emotions among survivors. […]
Police dogs killed by driving into 100º heat index at rush hour with bad AC
Lake Station Police Department helps driver/trainer to evade humane investigation CHICAGO, Illinois––“Parts of the Chicago area are under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories,” warned Eunice Alpasan and Paul Caine of WTTW-Chicago in the early evening of July 27, 2023, “with temperatures expected to top out at 96 degrees, along with a heat index […]
Bestiality & child porn bust in Bossier City, Louisiana: Terry Yetman deja vu
Suspect Nathan Mann held on 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––Nathan T. Mann, 35, of Bossier, Louisiana, was on March 23, 2023 charged with 106 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles and 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal, the Bossier County Sheriff’s Office announced. Mann was […]
California bill would halt use of unleashed K-9 dogs in arrests & crowd control
Use of dogs in search & rescue, explosives detection, narcotics detection & use of leashed dogs would be unaffected SACRAMENTO, California––A first-in-the-U.S. California state assembly bill to “prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control” was introduced […]
Pahrump dog breeders Platunov & Higgins allegedly starved 300 Ovarchkas
Having one of the worst-ever neglect cases in Nye County, Nevada, is not easy PAHRUMP, Nevada––Caucasian Ovcharka breeders Vasili Platunov and Oksana Higgins strung the authorities of Nye County, Nevada along for years with one excuse after another for failing to comply with some of the lightest and least enforced animal care and control ordinances in the […]