Fair Housing Act no longer shields pit bull owners who claim mental illness WASHINGTON D.C.––Pit bull owners with professed psychiatric issues, animal shelters used to rehoming pit bulls to the admittedly deranged, and animal advocacy organizations espousing “We can save them all!” are already going Kong toys over a newly narrowed definition of service animals […]
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 […]
Trainer of pit bull “service dogs” for veterans faked just about everything
Michigan TV 6 News exposes Kirk Lanam for “Stolen Valor” HOWELL, Michigan––Again an alleged trainer of pit bull service dogs for U.S. war veterans is in trouble for misrepresentation. Criminal charges against Kirk Lanam, 52, founder, president and executive director of Veteran Service Dogs Organization, in Osceola Township, Michigan, near Howell, have not yet […]
Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth
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 […]
Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls
“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 […]
Pit bull & animal neglect defense lawyer pleads in murder-for-hire plot
Seven felonies & four misdemeanors could bring life sentence EVERGREEN, Colorado––Animal Law Center founder Jennifer Reba Edwards Emmi, 43, previously best known for defending alleged dangerous dogs and accused animal hoarders, is due to be sentenced on August 16, 2021 after pleading guilty to seven felonies and four misdemeanors. Edwards on June 28, 2021 pleaded […]
Congress rejects immediate repeal of dog breed bans in military housing
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 […]
Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls
But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft” WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao, U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump presidential administration and almost certain to soon leave office, on November 30, 2020 introduced a revised Air Carrier Access Act regulation on the transportation of service animals by air […]
Feds crack door to banning pit bulls from airliners
But rulemakers lean the other way. Pit bull advocates celebrate “victory” while the fight has just begun. WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. federal Department of Transportation secretary Elaine L. Chao on January 22, 2020 cracked the door open to allowing airlines to ban pit bulls and other dangerous dog breeds from passenger cabins, even if those dogs […]