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 […]
Fourth of July body count: 1 death by bull, 2 by pit bulls, 1 by alligator
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 […]
Pit bulls killed 34 of 47 U.S. victims of fatal dog attacks in 2019
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 […]
Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull victim?
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 […]