Similar “rescuer” rhetoric takes toll in South Africa, too MARGATE, Florida; EDENVALE, South Africa––Joseph Varanese, 57, of Margate, Florida, just plain Joe to friends and family, believed the pit bull moonshine. On August 7, 2020, Joe Varanese adopted a pit bull reportedly picked up by Miami Dade Animal Services as an injured stray on […]
Miami pit bull ban update, 2017 edition: “No pit bulls” still means “No pit bulls”
There is still no such thing as a safe pit bull by Beth Clifton Exhibiting the dead-game doggedness that helps to make pit bulls themselves intractably dangerous, Miami Coalition Against Breed-Specific Legislation founder/director Dahlia Canes has circled back around to re-grip and attack again, just a year after she failed in a stealth attempt to repeal the […]
Christmas baby killed by pit bulls because Miami-Dade law is not enforced
Second child killed by an “American bulldog” in 18 months MIAMI, Florida––Christmas baby Nyjah Espinosa, instead of celebrating her second birthday with ice cream, cake, candles, and Santa Claus, was on December 20, 2015 killed at her father’s Miami-Dade county home by his pit bull––a breed type banned in Miami-Dade county since 1989. Posted the […]
Four-year-old killed by pit bulls because Miami-Dade law was not enforced
Killed by pit bulls in his father’s yard MIAMI, Florida––Javon Dade Jr., age 4, would not have been fatally mauled on August 13, 2014 if the Florida Department of Children & Families had known about the Miami-Dade County ban on pit bulls––and if Miami-Dade Animal Services had enforced the ordinance without allowing […]