The low-income semi-rural South has always had dogs at large. Those dogs were not always pit bulls. HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi; LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas––LaKesha Newsom, 35, and Celeste Jackson, 2, lived and died in low-income semi-rural Southern communities many miles and cultural light years from the ivory towers of academia, mauled by pit bulls roving at […]
What is former Humane Society of the U.S. trying to hide with name change?
New name, Humane World for Animals, to be used starting on Valentine’s Day 2025 WASHINGTON D.C.––The cat is out of the Humane Society of the United States logo, along with the pit bull, the puma, the cow, the bighorn sheep, the greyhound, the seal, the pigeon, the monkey, the beaver, the bunny, the bottlenose dolphin, […]
PETA urges HSUS, ASPCA, & CIWF to quit “Global Animal Partnership”
PETA breaks with policy of not criticizing other animal advocates over “endorsement of deceptive ‘humane’ meat, egg, and dairy certification” WASHINGTON D.C.––People for the Ethical Treatment [PETA] rarely kicks the butts of other animal advocacy organizations, no matter how self-serving, corrupt, hypocritical, or just plain incompetent, but since September 5, 2024 has made a public […]
Dog attacks: Ed Boks for shelters, Kenneth Phillips for victims, round two
Boks comes back swinging, but Phillips throws strikes Animal Politics blogger Ed Boks lost little time in responding on June 11, 2024 to the June 10, 2024 ANIMALS 24-7 face-off between himself and Dog Bite Law attorney and blogger Kenneth Phillips, Liability for dog attacks: Ed Boks for shelters, Kenneth Phillips for victims. The face-off began […]
Pit bulls: Truth or Consequences? by Beth Clifton
Pit bull pushing is not a game show Humans appear to have discovered the rewards of canine companionship to enhance and enrich our daily lives so far back in the Ice Ages that cave bears were a constant threat and a “Three-Dog Night” was not a band but an early form of home heating, perhaps […]
Shelter Animals Count: no mention of pit bulls, but data shows the crisis
“The question is not ‘Can they count?’, but ‘Can they reason with the data?’” ATLANTA, Georgia––Since Shelter Animals Count was formed in 2011 largely out of denial by several national animal advocacy organizations that pit bull overpopulation cannot be successfully addressed in a non-breed-specific manner, it is no surprise that the Shelter Animals Count […]
Much grandstanding, but still no access for animal rescuers in Lahaina
How to tell Joe Biden’s Lahaina appearance from ASPCA fundraising appeals KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii––Among the obvious differences between U.S. President Joe Biden’s August 21, 2023 photo-op appearance at firestorm-razed Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, and American SPCA [ASPCA] fundraising appeals claiming “Our team is on the ground in Maui,” is that visual confirmation of Biden’s six-hour presence […]
Police dogs killed by driving into 100º heat index at rush hour with bad AC
Lake Station Police Department helps driver/trainer to evade humane investigation CHICAGO, Illinois––“Parts of the Chicago area are under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories,” warned Eunice Alpasan and Paul Caine of WTTW-Chicago in the early evening of July 27, 2023, “with temperatures expected to top out at 96 degrees, along with a heat index […]
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 […]
Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”
Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7 DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi, who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,” rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12, 2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]