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. […]
Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight
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 […]
“Animals & thugs”: horses, dogs, police & the George Floyd protests
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 […]
Convicted of G.I. Bill fraud: trainer who prepped pit bulls for police work
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 […]
Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy
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 […]
The animal & human heroes & most overlooked lesson of 9/11
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, […]
Did Louisiana cop Terry Yetman do the dog? If so, why?
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 […]
Trainer who pushed pit bulls for police work indicted for fraud
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 […]
Rottweilers, Dobermans, Presa Canarios, Boerboels
Rottweilers, Dobermans, Presa Canarios, Boerboels • Houston dog fancier killed: “Before pit bulls, it was Dobermans”? • Deadliest dogs in South Africa? Boerboels challenge pit bulls • Boerboel dogs: “bull-biters” became symbols of apartheid • Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy • Why Rottweilers are as deadly as pit bulls • […]
Quebec introduces toughest dangerous dog law in North America
Quebec Bill 128 follows Montreal pit bull ban QUEBEC, Quebec––Dog Bite Prevention Week 2017 and National Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week ended in Quebec much as the overlapping weeks began, with two dogs including a pit bull mauling a hapless victim. In between, Quebec minister of public security Martin Coiteux on April 13, […]