State bills to stop insurers from charging higher premiums for high-risk breeds leave 90% of U.S. dog owners holding the bag for the reckless 10% GAINESVILLE, Georgia––A $5.6 million Hall County, Georgia jury award issued on May 19, 2023 to pit bull attack victim Stacy Finelli, 54, may become the largest on record […]
Dogfighter Elmer James Givens Jr. is at last convicted after 41-month stall
Continues to thumb nose at the court TACOMA, Washington––Elmer James Givens Jr., 41, perhaps the most publicized alleged dogfighter since former football player Michael Vick was busted in April 2007, and one of the most aggressively self-publicized of the social media era, became at last a convicted dogfighter on May 5, 2023. Sort of. Facing […]
Waterloo denies pit bull killed baby; Tulsa ignores 2 more pit bull deaths
Tulsa Animal Services, police, & media say nothing of three fatal pit bull attacks in 10 days WATERLOO, Iowa; TULSA, Oklahoma––“Authorities are trying to determine how a beloved family pet turned into a killer, attacking a baby in a tragedy that shook the Waterloo community,” wrote Waterloo Courier reporter Jeff Reinitz on May 4, 2023. […]
Does not acknowledging a fatal pit bull attack mean it did not happen?
Tulsa silence is deafening TULSA, Oklahoma––How do the Tulsa Police Department and City of Tulsa Animal Welfare Department suppress rising public alarm over fatal and disfiguring dog attacks, primarily by pit bulls? Perhaps by pretending that such attacks have not occurred? On April 19, 2023, ANIMALS 24-7 received information relayed through a longtime trusted confidential […]
Woman killed by pit bulls where cockfighters appear to own the law
More animal-related mayhem along 24 miles of “quiet” country road than in many big cities WHITELY CITY, Kentucky––Bad things involving animals happen along the 24-mile route from Slab Vanover Road, between Honeybee and Parker’s Lake in northern McCreary County, Kentucky, to Honest Abe’s cockpit at 303 Low Gap Road, two miles east of Pine Knot, […]
New York City confronts guinea pigs; pit bulls continue to run amok
Call it “Guinea pig overpopulation prevention week” NEW YORK CITY––“The bill to ban the sale of guinea pigs in NYC pet stores, has passed with a vote of 42-7 in the New York City Council!” exulted Voters for Animal Rights president Allie Taylor on the morning of April 11, 2023. “It may seem like a […]
Dog Bite Prevention Week 2023: stiletto heels in mud, blood, & dog poop
Victoria Stilwell cannot train genetics out of pit bulls & neither can anyone else NEW YORK, N.Y.––If celebrity dog trainer Victoria Stilwell tried to teach an old dog a new trick, specifically to ask to go outside to poop, with 67 failures in a row, would she conclude that she didn’t really know what […]
Pit bulls kill would-be rescuer in Detroit & two-year-old in Maryland
Two fatal attacks in one day––& one of the pit bulls allegedly killed before DETROIT, Michigan; BRUNSWICK, Maryland––“Rescue” pit bulls on April 4, 2023 killed a 58-year-old man who was reportedly trying to feed them at an old warehouse in Detroit, Michigan, and a two-year-old boy at his grandmother’s house in Brunswick, Maryland. The Detroit […]
Riverside County, California extends lead in fatal dog attacks
Joe Cleveland Scott & Mateo Salvador were 10th U.S. dog attack fatalities in 10 weeks JURUPA VALLEY, California; McDONALD CHAPEL, Alabama––As of the moment, ANIMALS 24-7 has discovered little about the lives of Joe Cleveland Scott, 73, of McDonald Chapel, Alabama, just outside Birmingham, and Mateo Lucas Salvador, 42, of Jurupa Valley, California, in Riverside […]
Death by Pit Bull: Bred to Kill, by Richard W. Morris, J.D., Ph.D.
$9.95 paperback, $2.99 Kindle A 52-second video trailer is live on: YouTube https://youtu.be/mrE1-bM_tdk Rumble https://rumble.com/v2a7ztq-death-by-pit-bull.html Bit Chute https://www.bitchute.com/video/DzP2jI9g2OSu/ Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “My history with pit bulls goes back to 1990,” retired San Diego and Tucson prosecutor Richard W. Morris opens in Death by Pit Bull. “That year, while my wife and I were out […]