National SPCA and U.S. counterparts continue pushing pits, heedless of consequence PRETORIA––Has South Africa learned anything, the National SPCA of South Africa in particular, from the stern warning issued by the Pit Bull Federation of South Africa in November 2017 about rehoming pit bulls of dangerous history? Apparently not. Retired police officer Henry Kleynhans, […]
Shelter director resigns in Maine “lost” pit bulls case
Pit bulls still at large WATERVILLE, Maine––Two pit bulls taken by owner Danielle Jones from the Humane Society Waterville Area on October 24, 2017 remain at large, a week after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a Kennebec District Court order that the pit bulls, named Bentley and Kole, should be euthanized for repeatedly […]
How multi-state effort to save the pit bull Blue led to Code Blue for Margaret Colvin
Reportedly surrendered for biting a child, Blue was routed through five rescue programs in six months before killing 90-year-old VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia––Fatally mauled by a pit bull named Blue just six hours after Forever Home Rescue & Rehabilitation delivered him to her daughter Linda Colvin Patterson at their home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Margaret […]