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Cane Corso:  A pit bull by any other name

February 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Cane Corso history is not what the “dog literature” says OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Was Gladys,  the star rescue dog who killed volunteer Pam Robb on February 17,  2022,  really a Cane Corso and not,  as ANIMALS 24-7 reported,  a “supersized pit bull”? Or is “Cane Corso” really just a sanitized and gentrified name for a common […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cart dogs, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Italy, Mediterranean, Shelters, United Kingdom, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Amber Miller, Amy Roman Daniello, John P. Colby, Klonda Richey, Merritt Clifton, Pam Robb, Tony Ahrens, Will Judy

Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy

September 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Science, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Beth Clifton, Erin Hecht, John D. Johnson, John P. Colby, Kristopher Irizarry, Laura Sanders, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Voith

Gut biome, gunpowder, & what makes a pit bull “grand champion”

January 24, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Charles Werner, Earl Tudor, J.D. Johnson, John P. Colby, Merritt Clifton, Monique Udell, Nicole Kirchoff, Thomas Sharpton

How to stop dogfighting the quick, easy way

November 27, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Carey H. Falwell, Hewitt Grant II, John P. Colby, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, pit bull, Queen Elizabeth I, skinheads

Shelter sued for rehoming pit bull who attacked woman

May 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Allison Fowler, Diane Indelicato, John P. Colby, Ken Foster, Lisa Shulman, Ruff House

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