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, […]
Dog attack deaths & maimings, U.S. & Canada, 1982-2016
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When dogs mauled children outside the White House
Prof adds depth & detail to history of dogs & race relations you first read here “Examining the history of canine violence in European and Euro-American colonialism is not an easy task,” observes Tyler D. Parry early in “Man’s Best Fiend,” appearing in the newly published December 2016 edition of History Today. Found same facts we did––& […]
Legacy of Thai king included arrest of man who “liked” cartoon of his dog
The king and the dog helped to improve treatment of street dogs in Thailand BANGKOK, Thailand––Thai King Bhumibol Aduladej, 88, died on October 13, 2016 with charges apparently still pending against factory worker Thanakorn Sirpaiboon, 28, for having allegedly insulted the king’s dog Tong Daeng by “liking” a cartoon about the dog posted by someone else […]
Bad dogs & minority communities
Bad dogs & minority communities • Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight • Why “Human races are not like dog breeds: Refuting a Racist Analogy” • Pit bull attack deaths only slightly slowed by COVID-19 stay-home orders • Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull […]
Standing Rock: Who let the dogs out?
With suspects identified, will the injured Sioux sue? FORT YATES, North Dakota––Who let the dogs out? Confronting protesters near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation on September 3, 2016 with five to eight leashed but leaping, lunging, and biting dogs, who injured at least six people and a horse, the Dakota Access pipeline construction security […]
Security guards set dogs on Sioux demonstrators at Standing Rock
Oil pipeline builders didn’t await court verdict before bulldozing on Labor Day weekend (Part I of two parts. See also How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963.) FORT YATES, North Dakota––1,130 linear miles, almost the 1,168-mile length of the projected Dakota Access pipeline route from the Bakken oil shale fields of North Dakota to Illinois, […]
How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963
Use of dogs against protesters may mark turning point in pipeline campaign (Part II of two parts. See also Security guards set dogs on Sioux demonstrators at Standing Rock.) FORT YATES, North Dakota––History may in the long run favor the Dakota Access pipeline, or a modified and re-routed version of it. But history is unlikely to […]
2016 survey: List of top 5 U.S. dog breed types ousts pit bulls
Pits fall to lowest since 2010 relative to other top breed types Non-pit bull small terriers, the hound category, large retrievers, and dachshunds all have a legitimate claim to being the most popular dog type in the U.S., according to the seventh annual ANIMALS 24-7 survey of classified ads offering dogs for sale or adoption. Data […]