Editorial by Merritt & Beth Clifton Two nights ago, in advance of Martin Luther King Day, ANIMALS 24-7 posted as our lead feature Four black leaders who built the humane movement, profiling William Key, John W. Lemon, Richard Carroll, and Frederick Barnwell Rivers. Those four forgotten black men between 1898 and 1945 probably reached more […]
Deaths by pit bull: will new California law slow the mayhem?
Prosecuting shelters for withholding bite history might be a start DAYTON, Ohio; CONWAY, Kentucky; LOS ANGELES, California––The first two U.S. dog attack fatalities to be reported in 2020, both involving pit bulls, upstaged the possibly more indicative resignations of two strong pit bull advocates from senior positions with Los Angeles Animal Services and Orange […]
Record pit bull attacks on other animals in 2019, pro football, & the Titanic
Trent Williams case appears to exemplify national trend MISSOURI CITY, Texas––Pit bulls appear to have killed 50,541 other animals in 2019, the most ever, including 9,976 other dogs, 4,092 cats, and 27,450 other pets, poultry, and hoofed species, according to the seventh annual ANIMALS 24-7 projection from reported cases. Pit bulls accounted for 91% […]
Dog attack deaths & maimings, U.S. & Canada, 1982-2019 log
Pit bulls killed 33 of 46 U.S. victims of fatal dog attacks in 2019
Two pit bulls ended last victim’s troubled life in a Houston ditch HOUSTON, Texas––Medessa Jean Ragsdale, 44, the last identified dog attack fatality of 2019, had few other distinctions in life, but most certainly did not want that one. Ragsdale, as a 19-year-old high school junior in Hutchinson, Kansas, received a brief mention in the […]
Bullhead City shelter break-in: owner & pit bulls on the lam
Pet theft in the 21st century more often involves pit bulls under euthanasia order than laboratory supply BULLHEAD CITY, Arizona––Rhonda Kathrine Johnson, 51, on the lam with her pit bulls Melony and Ginger, sprung on Thanksgiving 2019 from the animal shelter in Bullhead City, Arizona, is unlikely to make the FBI “Ten Most Wanted List.” […]
Brother Wolf: “Warehousing is not working,” says director of no-kill experiment
“Keeping aggressive animals isn’t the solution for lifesaving” ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––“We are warehousing aggressive animals at Brother Wolf when we know this isn’t the solution for lifesaving,” executive director Leah Craig Fieser acknowledged in “Warehousing is not working,” a December 5, 2019 social media statement inspiring heated debate nationwide. “We inherited this way of operating,” Fieser said, […]
Pit bulls: An active 40+ year shelter director speaks out too, by Debra Boswell
“Thank you so much, Deborah Turner!” Thank you so much, Deborah Turner, for your truthful and informative ANIMALS 24-7 guest column Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last. I have been the director at a large open admission shelter in the south, the Mississippi Animal Rescue League in Jackson, Mississippi, since […]
Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last, by Deborah Turner
“All dogs should be recognized as individuals,” but what of the victims? Last week (and practically every week) a prominent animal welfare group talked on Facebook about how nearly all shelters now agree that all dogs should be recognized as individuals and no breed is inherently aggressive. Really? Humans have been breeding dogs for specific […]
Hazel Park undid pit bull bylaw that should have saved 4-year-old
“National Pit Bull Awareness Month” 2019 began & ended with fatal maulings HAZEL PARK, Michigan––October 2019, designated the thirteenth annual “National Pit Bull Awareness Month” by pit bull advocates, closed much as it opened, with a blood-red sunset over Hazel Park, Michigan, barely 30 hours after four-year-old Benjamin Cobb was fatally mauled in his […]
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