Rottweilers • Rottweiler killing of seven-year-old brings murder charges in Virginia • Family Rottweiler raised from pup kills first dog attack victim of 2022, age 7 • Lifelong safe dog advocate could not save mother from Rottweiler • Rottweilers: two fatal attacks & three near-fatalities disclosed in one day • Why Rottweilers are as deadly as […]
How the Americans with Disabilities Act has become the “Pit Bull Pushers Act”
“Service dog” attack aboard airliner spotlights crisis ATLANTA––A June 4, 2017 attack by a purported “chocolate lab/pointer mix” who appears to have actually been a pit bull or pit mix has renewed attention to widespread abuse of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and Air Carrier Access Act to force dogs, especially pit bulls, into […]
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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Bad dogs & minority communities
Bad dogs & minority communities • “The Conversation” & the pit bull shit • “Rez dogs” kill two people in two days––but likely were not born there • Malcolm X on pit bulls, other dangerous dogs, & betrayal • Six pit bull-related deaths linked to “The Wickedest City in America” • Navajo Nation: “They hid the […]
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 […]
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 […]