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“English bulldog”: two dog breeds, one name, & a rising body count

August 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Pug mixes vs. pit bulls in thin disguise             SELMA, California––Much of the public did a double-take on July 31,  2022 as word spread that five “English bulldogs” belonging to breeder Victor Carranza,  of 4 Brothers Bulldogs,   killed neighbor Richard “Hutch” Barry,  59,  as he walked home from his brother’s house around the corner. Fatal […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: David Leavitt, Jiggs, John D. Johnson, Merritt Clifton, Olde English Bulldogge, Richard "Hutch" Barry, Victor Carranza

Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war

November 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Jiggs, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin, Stubby

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