Looking at normal dogs’ brains shows how “fighting breed” brains differ BOSTON, POMONA––There may already be weeping and gnashing of teeth among pit bull advocates, and perhaps significant fundraising underway to trump up rebuttals, too, following the September 2, 2019 Journal of Neuroscience publication of “Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds,” by Harvard […]
Gut biome, gunpowder, & what makes a pit bull “grand champion”
Dog poop study discovers clues CORVALLIS, Oregon––Pit bull breeders and dogfighters have argued for centuries over the relative contributions of genetics and “guts” to the making of “grand champions.” Dogfighters have fed pit bulls gunpowder to try to make them more explosively reactive, aggressive, and “game” for centuries, despite the reality that the working element […]
How to stop dogfighting the quick, easy way
Avoid the damage; fix the dogs Animal advocates cheered on November 19, 2015 when Judge Wayne Durden of Polk County, Florida sentenced alleged dogfighter Hewitt Grant II, 48, to serve 20 years in prison. Convicted on 84 counts of cruelty, Grant is to serve at least 16 years before becoming eligible for parole, and is […]
Shelter sued for rehoming pit bull who attacked woman––but NYC hires pit advocate as “community dogs program coordinator”
MINEOLA, N.Y.; NEW YORK CITY––A lawsuit filed on April 23, 2015 against Ruff House Rescue of Rockville Centre, New York might reasonably cause New York City-area shelters to rethink doing anything which could be judicially construed as misrepresenting the risk of adopting pit bulls. Animal Care & Control of New York City, however, has […]