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 • Pit bull attack deaths only slightly slowed by COVID-19 stay-home orders • Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull victim? • Hero of pit bull attack paid much higher price than convicted owners • Heroism stops dog attacks––but knowing how helps, too • When dogs […]
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 […]
12-pit bull attack on toddler spotlights soaring risk on reservations
Navajo Nation residents are 35 times more likely to be killed by dogs than other Americans Part I of a three-part series. See also: Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks triple and Pit bulls now in the “rez dog” gene pool. WINDOW ROCK, Arizona––Three-year-old Kayden Colter Begay was on July 14, 2016 […]
Pit bull attack tests Army will to enforce ban from base housing
U.S. Army slow to release information about the case FORT POLK, Louisiana––A May 22, 2016 pit bull attack on five-year-old Wyatt Herrington of Fort Polk, Louisiana, appears to have evolved into a test of the U.S. Army’s determination to enforce a 2009 ban of pit bulls and several other categories of dangerous dog from […]
Hitler’s pit bull
& other dogs worth remembering on Memorial 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 […]
über source of pit bull myths: Pep, The Story Of A Brave Dog
by Clarence Hawkes Illustrated by William Van Dresser Milton Bradley Co. (Springfield, Mass.), 1922. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The sole known published reference to the now popular “nanny dog” or “nursemaid dog” notion, before the rise of opposition to breed-specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A […]