Response to fatal pit bull attacks in Genoa, Arkansas, and Toledo, Ohio, could scarcely be more different. GENOA, Arkansas; TOLEDO, Ohio––Fatally mauled by pit bulls in their own yards two days apart, on September 24, 2023 and September 26, 2023, respectively, Brenda Lynn Witt, 60, of Genoa, Arkansas, and Diane Etta Knepper, 70, of Toledo, […]
Toledo pit bull advocate Bonnie Varnes, 58, killed by family pit bull
Took daughter’s pit bull out; daughter’s pit bull took her out TOLEDO, Ohio––Washington Local Schools bus driver Bonnie Varnes, 58, who prominently advocated for pit bulls on social media, was on February 20, 2023 killed by one of her daughter Amelia Brooke Varnes’s two pit bulls. Amina the pit bull was leashed as Bonnie Varnes […]
The deaths of Katie Janness & Javon Stokes, pit bulls & Occam’s Razor
The simplest, most obvious explanation for an observed phenomenon is usually the best and most accurate. ATLANTA, Georgia; EAST TOLEDO, Ohio––Occam’s Razor seems to be rarely wielded lately in response to human deaths associated with pit bulls, for example the July 28, 2021 death of Katherine “Katie” Janness in Atlanta, Georgia, and the August […]
Emily Kahl: 16th fatality attributable to 2012 gutting of Ohio dog law
Toledo Blade publisher John Robinson Block pushed to delist pit bulls as “inherently vicious” TOLEDO, Ohio––Toledo Blade reporters Alexandra Mester and John Besche on July 22, 2021 published a detailed report on the pit bull attack death of Toledo resident Emily Kahl, 31, four days earlier. Mester and Besche mentioned every significant detail about Kahl’s […]