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Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s boyfriend Christophe Ellul indicted for manslaughter

March 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Indictment follows 16-month investigation of attack that has been the talk of France             SOISSONS,  France––Christophe Ellul, 46,  boyfriend of November 16,  2019 pit bull attack fatality Elisa Pilarski,  29,  was on March 4,  2021 indicted for manslaughter by Soissons prosecutor Julien Morino-Ros. Pilarski was six months pregnant.  Ellul,  the father of their unborn son […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Top, France, Mediterranean, Training Tagged With: Benoit Blanc, Beth Clifton, Eric Boussuge, Julien Morino-Ros, Le Rallye de la Passion, Merritt Clifton, Nathalie Pilarski, Poitevin hound, Sharon DeWit, Xavier Terquem Adoue

Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Germany, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Airlines for America, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Lara Trump, Lufthansa, Marlin Tremaine Jackson, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Knight

DNA & vets agree: pit bull Curtis, not hunting hounds, killed Elisa Pilarski

November 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Findings could lead to prosecution of fiancé of pregnant victim, who found her body, has denied both that Curtis did it and that he is a pit bull             PARIS, France––DNA test results released on November 3,  2020 by Eric Boussuge,  prosecutor for the district of Amiens,  support the finding of two court-appointed veterinarians that […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Deer & other horned species, Dog attacks, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Mediterranean, Wildlife Tagged With: Alexandre Novion, Caty Richard, Christian Diaz, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Guillaume Demarcq, Merritt Clifton, Soumya Berkane

Mink the missing link? COVID-19 deaths & new data suggest yes.

October 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch findings come as COVID-19 hits mink farms & humans in Wisconsin & Utah             GREEN BAY, Wisconsin;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah––Which came first,  the COVID-19 coronavirus infecting humans,  or infecting mink? No one right now knows for sure whether mink might have been the incubator species through which COVID-19 passed from horseshoe bats in […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Disease, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tagged With: Darlene Konkle, Dean Taylor, Hope Kirwan, Jacob Klopfenstein, JoNel Aleccia, Merritt Clifton, Tyler Clifford

COVID-19 boosts Labs, goldens, & small dogs; pit bull breeders crash

July 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Stay home” orders bring sharp turn toward safe dogs Eighteen of the 28 Americans killed by dogs by the Fourth of July,  2020,  including 15 pit bull victims,  two killed by mastiffs,  and one killed by a Malinois,  were killed by their own family dogs in their own homes––a record pace of mayhem in every […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Greyhounds, Lab animals, Mediterranean, Science, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Chihuahua, Lowchen, Malinois, Staffordshire

Deaths in Tahiti: pit bull mayhem hits “tropical paradise”

May 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Victim survived nuclear bomb tests, but not four Staffordshires and a bull terrier PAPEETE,  Tahiti––Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint,  87,  was on May 12,  2020 torn apart by four American Staffordshire pit bulls and a bull terrier pit bull variant. She had survived World War II,  the 1946 annexation of Polynesia by France,  and 193 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Pacific islands & other, Street dogs Tagged With: Brigitte Bardot, George Calderon, James Cook, Joseph Banks, Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint, Merritt Clifton, Ramon Taihotua

Pit bull or hunting hounds? Who killed Elisa Pilarski & unborn child Enzo?

April 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

DNA data may decide which dog did the killing,  but maybe not who was at fault SOISSONS,  France––Pack hunters and pit bull enthusiasts are pitted against each other in a melodrama gripping French media since November 16,  2019,  when someone’s dog or dogs killed Elisa Pilarski,  29,  six months pregnant. Anxiously awaited DNA test results […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Show, Training Tagged With: Antoine Gallon, Brigitte Bardot, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Frédéric Trinh, Merritt Clifton

Science races law to end culling seven billion male chicks a year

February 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No more fingers up chicks’ anal vents          PARIS,  France;  BERLIN,  Germany––Racing to appear to be ahead of egg industry science,  French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume on January 28,  2020 announced that his administration would ban mass culling of male chicks and castration of piglets without anesthetic. “From the end of 2021,  nothing will be […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, France, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Poultry Tagged With: Chad Gregory, Didier Guillaume, Gretchen Vogel, Merritt Clifton, Oliver Morrison, Timothy Kurt

Pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski struck twice more in five days

January 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

French fatality,  still under investigation,  echoes & contrasts with U.S. cases BEAUVAIS, OISE,  France;  CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP,  Ohio;  PORTSMOUTH,  Virginia;  ASHEVILLE,  North Carolina––Curtis,  the pit bull suspected of killing Elisa Pilarski in the Retz Forest near Soissons,  France,  on November 16,  2019,  also injured her fiancé Christopher Ellul at the police station on the evening of […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Brandon Evans, Brooke Francis, Christopher Ellul, Dale Mark Matthews, Elisa Pilarski, Jesse Winters, Leah Craig Fieser, Luke Matthews, Marie A. Franco-Wisnewski, Mary Matthews, Merritt Clifton

Noted in passing: Tresz, Muliro, Ndou, Hanson, Broecker, Lagerfeld

April 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Six people with little in common except influencing how humans see animals Hilda Tresz,  Freddy Mahamba Muliro,  and Joel Celestine Mambou Ndou,  none of them ever famous,  in various ways devoted their lives to great apes. Wade Hanson spent the last 24 years of his life as a humane officer. Wallace Broecker for more than 50 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Central Europe, DRC, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Gabon, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indian subcontinent, Kenya, Mediterranean, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sub-Saharan, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Frank Romaine, Freddy Mahamba Muliro, Hilda Tresz, Joel Celestine Mambou Ndou, Karl Lagerfeld, Merritt Clifton, Wade Hanson, Wallace Broecker

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