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Detroit animal control & humane society dog attack prevention fails again

October 20, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

When a nine-year humane society president and a four-year animal control agency chief in the same city both have had more dog attack fatalities on their watch than anyone else in comparable positions ever,  85% by pit bulls,  what does that tell you? DETROIT, Michigan––Lovell Anderson,  4,  playing in his own fenced Detroit backyard under […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, USA Tagged With: Emma Hernandez, Lovell Anderson, Mark Kumpf, Matt Pepper, Merritt Clifton, Xavier Strickland

Fourth of July body count: 1 death by bull, 2 by pit bulls, 1 by alligator

July 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Murders soared,  Canada Day through July 4,  2023,  but animals killed humans at even faster pace With some reports perhaps yet to arrive,  the animals-against-humans tally for the four-day 2023 Canada Day/Fourth of July weekend appears to been one death by bull,  two by pit bulls,  and one by an alligator. In view that there […]

Filed Under: Canada, Crocodilians, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Reptiles, Rodeo, Spectacles, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Angela Summers, Anthony Gerard Bastardi, Emma Hernandez, Holly Jenkins, Merritt Clifton, Pierre Cleveland, Seth Saulteaux, Tony Cushingberry

Pit bulls killed 34 of 47 U.S. victims of fatal dog attacks in 2019

January 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Benjamin Cobb, Christine Liquori, Cledith Davenport, Elaine Richman, Emma Hernandez, Janet M. D'Aleo, Lana Bergman, Medessa Jean Ragsdale, Merritt Clifton, Victor Garces

Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull victim?

August 25, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Emma Hernandez,  9,  was the latest sacrifice to dangerous dogs             DETROIT,  Michigan––The “Motown sound” today,  sixty years after Detroit music entrepreneur Berry Gordy Jr. formed the Motown Record Corporation,  is all too often the bloodcurdling shriek of a child fighting a dog of notoriously dangerous breed for her life,  the wail of parents finding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Craig Sytsma, Emma Hernandez, JoAnn Watson, Kyle Holland, Merritt Clifton, Pierre Cleveland, Xavier Strickland

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