Bereaved mother hoped the world would be kind to her son two days before Rottweilers ripped him apart “I look at my son and hope the world is always kind to him, because that boy,” two-year-old Kaimir Jones, “truly has the sweetest soul,” Valdosta, Georgia mother Adrianna Jones posted to Facebook on October 2, 2025. […]
Fatal dog attack in Miami Gardens echoes $21.5 million case in King County
Miami-Dade Animal Services failed to respond to repeated complaints, neighbors & survivors say MIAMI GARDENS, Florida; DANVILLE, Virginia––September 2025 had barely begun when at about 7:30 a.m. on September 1, Doreen Richard Broadbelt, 72, walking to work at Walmart in Miami Gardens, Florida, became the first US. dog attack fatality of the month and the […]
Ten fatal dog attacks come to light in two weeks, eight ignored by media
Five killed by pit bulls, two by pair of Rottweilers, one each by Cane Corsos, Presa Canario & police dog PORTSMOUTH, Virginia; VANCOUVER, British Columbia––Cindy White, 52, killed by three pit bulls on April 12, 2024 in Portsmouth, Virginia, was the second U.S. and Canadian dog attack fatality in a two-week span, following the […]
Pit bull moonshine claims another life in the “Sunshine State”
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 […]