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Five-year-old disfigured by pit bull 21 days after Aurora ban is lifted

March 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull,  only the third rehomed by the Aurora Animal Shelter,  passed the ASPCA “SAFER” test             AURORA, Colorado––Just 21 days after an Aurora city council ordinance undoing the longstanding community pit bull ban took effect,  five-year-old Leonardo Duran is facing possible lifelong disfigurement from only the third pit bull rehomed by the Aurora Animal […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Apryl Steele, Austin Chavez, Dave Gruber, Joshua Strother, Karen Duran, Leonardo Duran, Merritt Clifton

Aurora repeals pit bull ban; pit bull advocates in trouble in three states

January 15, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

$2 million payout to family of Janet D’Aleo,  95,  killed on November 6,  2019 by “rescue” pit bull belonging to Humane Society of the U.S. state representative Annie Hornish AURORA, Colorado––Overturning an ordinance banning pit bulls that was endorsed by 64% of the electorate as recently as 2014,  four of the seven members of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Amber Rickles, Anne Hornish, Apryl Steele, Cesar Millan, Cleveratta Gordon-Waldroup, Janet D'Aleo, Jennifer Romano, Marsha Berzins, Ronin Waldroup

Shelters make mega-payouts to pit bull victims: what will change?

September 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Two seven-figure settlements in five days might make “socially responsible sheltering the new norm––if the idea isn’t corrupted             LOS ANGELES, California;  FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida––Representatives of pit bull attack victims twice in five days in early September 2019 announced apparent record-setting damage awards from animal care and control agencies for alleged negligence in allowing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Apryl Steele, Doug Rae, Jan McHugh-Smith, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Paige Woody, Pamela Devitt, Zoey Green

Retired: Bob Rohde personified “your Dumb Friends” for 45 years

February 13, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Worked his way to the top from cleaning cages DENVER,  Colorado––Possibly the longest serving executive ever of a humane society that he did not himself found,  Robert “Bob” Rohde,  68,  on February 9,  2018 turned over the presidency of the Denver Dumb Friends League to Apryl Steele,  DVM,  after nearly 45 years with the organization […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Apryl Steele, Asilomar Accords, Colorado Humane Society, Jann Rohde, Merritt Clifton, North Shore Animal League, Sharon Harmon

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