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Michigan hero takes on pit bull advocacy with a song & a trash can

October 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Oneil Colley serenades Michigan lawmakers for Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day             LANSING, Michigan––In the Michigan state capital,  at least,  Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day on October 25,  2019 upstaged National Pit Bull Awareness Day,  both officially celebrated a day later. National Pit Bull Awareness Day,  held annually since 2007 to whitewash the public image […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Ann Marie Rogers, Colleen Lynn, Ethan Storey, Merritt Clifton, Oneil Colley, Paige Woody, Tom Colvin, Zoey Green

Daxton’s Friends, five years after trusted pit bulls killed a toddler

March 7, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Grieving father amplifies the voices of dog attack survivors             MILWAUKEE,  Wisconsin––Five years ago today,  on March 6,  2013,  two pit bulls raised from puppyhood in a loving home environment killed Daxton James Borchardt,  age 14 months,  and badly injured his babysitter,  Susan Iwicki,  whose pit bulls turned on both of them. “The horrific attack started,”  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Colleen Lynn, Daxton Borchardt, Jeff Borchardt, Ledy Van Kavage, Mark Kelley, Merritt Clifton

Pit bull advocacy exposed by the CBC Fifth Estate with host Mark Kelley

September 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pit Bulls Unleashed:  Should They Be Banned? The Fifth Estate with Mark Kelley http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/ or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-bX3gZC3YnCThlGM5d38Q   Pit bull advocates have been screaming bloody murder since the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last night,  September  22,  2017,  aired Pit Bulls Unleashed:  Should They Be Banned? The hour-long documentary,  produced by the investigative news magazine program The Fifth […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Screen industry Tagged With: Brandi McNeely, Charlotte Alter, Christiane Vadnais, Colleen Lynn, Daxton Borchardt, Emily Vadnais, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Judy, Ledy Van Kavage, Mark Kelley, Merritt Clifton, Michael Golinko, Susan Iwicki, Trehlan Credit

Newborn killed by pit bull rehomed by San Diego Humane Society & SPCA

April 28, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Attack could not have been foreseen, claims SPCA president Weitzman SAN DIEGO,  California––The inherent unreliability of temperament testing and untruthfulness of pit bull adoption promotions depicting the dogs as safe were underscored on April 22,  2016 when a two-year-old pit bull named Polo,  rehomed six months earlier by the San Diego Humane Society & SPCA, […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Brian Maienschein, Colleen Lynn, Dan DeSousa, Dawn Danielson, Emily Weiss, Gary Weitzman, Merritt Clifton, Remedios Romero-Solares, Sebastian Caban

No one held to account for Asheville Humane Society pit bull adoption fatality

August 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

6-year-old killed three weeks after pit bull was rehomed ASHEVILLE,  North Carolina––Absent a lawsuit from the bereaved family,  no person or agency will be held to account for the July 7, 2015 fatal mauling of six-year-old Joshua Phillip Strother by a pit bull adopted three weeks earlier from the Asheville Humane Society,  after passing the […]

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: ASPCA, Buncombe County, Colleen Lynn, Humane Alliance, J. Thomas Beasley, Joshua Phillip Strother, Merritt Clifton, Quita Mazzena, Sarah Hess, Tracy Elliott

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