Fumbling response to Tony Ahrens & Amber Miller mauling deaths outrages many in Newport, Tennessee NEWPORT, Tennessee––One hundred nineteen days after the April 1, 2021 dog attack death of Tony Ahrens, 52, sixteen days after three dogs were seen standing over Amber Miller, 29, fatally mauled at the same location on July 12, 2021, […]
$20.8 million jury award for California dog attack
Retired police dog chased mail carrier before killing man, mauling woman EXETER, California––A San Luis Obispo County jury on July 28, 2021 awarded $7 million to Rachel, Sarah, and Steven Fear, the adult survivors of December 2016 dog attack victim David Fear, plus $13.8 million to David Fear’s former neighbor, Betty Long, who was […]
Emily Kahl: 16th fatality attributable to 2012 gutting of Ohio dog law
Toledo Blade publisher John Robinson Block pushed to delist pit bulls as “inherently vicious” TOLEDO, Ohio––Toledo Blade reporters Alexandra Mester and John Besche on July 22, 2021 published a detailed report on the pit bull attack death of Toledo resident Emily Kahl, 31, four days earlier. Mester and Besche mentioned every significant detail about Kahl’s […]
Why were Amber Miller & Tony Ahrens killed by dogs in Newport, TN?
And why is the Cocke County Sheriff Office not sharing info with the public that is released promptly after almost every fatal dog attack? [Updated July 24, 2021.] NEWPORT, Tennessee––Why was Amber Miller, 29, alone on Jimtown Road near dead-end Carnation Way on the morning of July 12, 2021, five and a half miles […]
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 […]
New L.A. animal control chief Brown expected to go “Back to basics”
Brown brings to the job background in animal control, personnel management, and law enforcement, knows Los Angeles, & is bilingual LOS ANGELES––Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti on June 24, 2021 nominated Dana Brown, 57, to become the next Los Angeles Animal Services general manager, succeeding Brenda Barnette, 72, who retired on May 7, 2021 after […]
MLK assassin ex-wife Anna Ray busted for dog hoarding––again!
1996 Anna Sandhu Ray case history was often cited by hoarding expert Vicky Crosetti JACKSON, Tennessee––Anna Sandhu Ray, 74, ex-wife of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was on June 21, 2021 arrested in Jackson, Tennessee and booked into the Madison County jail on 44 counts of animal cruelty for extreme […]
Shooting war: cats win, feeders lose in East Bay Regional Park District
East Bay Regional Park District agrees to ceasefire if cat rescuers remove cats from sensitive wildlife areas OAKLAND, California––Histrionic headlines and activist alerts aside, what the East Bay Regional Park District board of directors really did at a heated June 15, 2021 meeting over cat policy was to: Permanently reassign staff biologist David “Doctor […]
CDC: fixated on rabies, ignoring 100 times more deaths from pit bulls
As many U.S. children were killed by pit bulls within 5 days in June 2021 as have been killed by canine rabies since 1968 ATLANTA, Georgia––Which is more likely to kill an American, a rabid dog or a pit bull? The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, on June […]
“Return to Field” from an animal care & control perspective
by Dawn D. Danielson, RVT, former director, County of San Diego Animal Services The subject of intake, holding and release of cats into the community from which they were brought to a shelter is becoming an emotionally charged debate over, among other things, the lawfulness of programs operating under such names as “community cats,” “return […]
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