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Albuquerque animal shelter may lead U.S. in staff maulings

September 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department has been repeatedly spotlighted since circa 2010 for housing & rehoming high-risk dogs  ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Yet again an Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department employee has suffered a severe dog attack on the job. Yet again observers who should know better are often looking in the wrong places for the reasons why. Reported […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Barbara Bruin, Carolyn Ortega, Chris Ramirez, Jim Ludwick, Merritt Clifton, Tim Keller

Albuquerque sued again for allegedly rehoming dangerous dogs

October 28, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Earlier cases allege rehoming dangerous cats, too             ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Already sued half a dozen times in under four years over issues pertaining to rehoming dangerous animals,  the city of Albuquerque was in the fourth week of October 2018 sued yet again,  this time by former Albuquerque Animal Welfare employee Victoria Murphy. Murphy in her filing […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Barbara Bruin, Colleen Heild, Deb Brinkley, Jen French, Jim Ludwig, Joan "Bet" Lotosky, Joel Craig, Maggie Shepard, Merritt Clifton, Paul Caster, Rachel Knapp, Sarah Wharton, Victoria Murphy

L.A. County tightens dog policies; Albuquerque drops the ball

April 12, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

New animal control boss in Albuquerque caught repeating the old boss’s errors          ALBUQUERQUE,  LOS ANGELES––Los Angeles County Animal Control marked Dog Bite Prevention Week 2017,  April 9-15,  by moving decisively to try to ensure that only dogs deemed safe for adoption leave the county shelters. Albuquerque Animal Welfare fumbled to explain why a staff […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Alex Donald Jackson, Barbara Bruin, Gabrielle Burkhart, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Pamela Devitt, Paul Caster, Phyllis M. Daugherty, Ray Marquez

“Pit Bull Awareness” day & month mark 33 years of exponentially accelerating pit bull mayhem

October 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Miami,  Albuquerque,  and Charleston incidents illustrate the cost of pro-pit mendacity Pit bull advocates will on October 24, 2015 celebrate the ninth annual “Pit Bull Awareness Day,” founded in 2007 by Jody Preis of the Tennessee pit bull rescue Bless the Bullies, and subsequently expanded by many pit bull advocates into an entire “Pit Bull […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Barbara Bruin, Joe Elmore, Merritt Clifton

Albuquerque city shelter released dangerous dogs

September 6, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Office of inspector general’s report confirms allegations          ALBUQUERQUE––A newly released 38-page investigative report by acting Albuquerque city inspector general Peter Pacheco confirms allegations issued in February 2015 by city Animal Welfare Department second-in-command Jim Ludwick and animal welfare program manager and behavior specialist Carolyn Hidalgo that,  in the report’s wording,  “Dogs with problematic behavior […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Left, Shelters, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, Barbara Bruin, Carloyn Hidalgo, Jim Ludwig, Merritt Clifton, Peter Pacheco, SAFER

Albuquerque pound broke city’s own dangerous dog law

July 28, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

City withholds details about consequences          ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––A City of Albuquerque internal investigation has found the city’s Animal Welfare Department to be “only partially in compliance” with the city dangerous dog ordinance, including in rehoming dogs who should have been classified as dangerous. What the cost has been to public safety remains unclear, since […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Albuquerque Animal Welfare, ASPCA, Barbara Bruin, Colleen Heild, Jim Ludwick, SAFER test

Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department #2 and behaviorist allege neglect of public safety in pushing pit bull adoptions

April 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

“Practices that put the public at risk from dangerous dogs” ALBUQUERQUE––City of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department second-in-command Jim Ludwick and animal welfare program manager and behavior specialist Carolyn Hidalgo have alleged in parallel written complaints to Albuquerque city inspector general Peter Pacheco that Albuquerque animal welfare director Barbara Bruin has boosted the “live release rate” […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Left, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Albuquerque Animal Welfare, Barbara Bruin, Carolyn Hidalgo, Jim Ludwick, Merritt Clifton, pit bull

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