King County failed to respond effectively to more than 75 calls from neighbors over four years SEATTLE, Washington––King County, Washington on August 28, 2025 agreed to pay a record $21.5 million to settle claims by pit bull attack victim Gyongyi Bazso Maas, her husband Mike, and their children. Gyongyi Bazso Maas, after seeing the children […]
Does not acknowledging a fatal pit bull attack mean it did not happen?
Tulsa silence is deafening TULSA, Oklahoma––How do the Tulsa Police Department and City of Tulsa Animal Welfare Department suppress rising public alarm over fatal and disfiguring dog attacks, primarily by pit bulls? Perhaps by pretending that such attacks have not occurred? On April 19, 2023, ANIMALS 24-7 received information relayed through a longtime trusted confidential […]
Cane Corso: A pit bull by any other name
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 […]
Montgomery County to pay $3.5 million to survivors of Klonda Richey
Settlement includes no skin off former animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s ass DAYTON, Ohio––The Montgomery County, Ohio board of commissioners are on March 31, 2020 expected to approve a $3.5 million settlement with survivors of Klonda Richey. Richey, 57, was on February 7, 2014 fatally mauled by her next door neighbors’ two dogs, variously […]
Mark Kumpf named Detroit animal control chief. Remember Klonda Richey?
Richey was third of five human dog attack fatalities during Kumpf tenure in Dayton DETROIT––With the Motor City still grieving over the August 19, 2019 fatal mauling of nine-year-old Emma Hernandez by three pit bulls running at large, Detroit chief operating officer Hakim Berry on September 23, 2019 named a new animal control director: […]
Kumpf out, but new bill won’t undo harm he did to Ohio dog law
“The evil men do lives after them,” but pit bull victims are dead forever DAYTON, Ohio––Seven years after former Montgomery County dog warden Mark Kumpf led the campaign that effectively dismantled the Ohio dangerous dog law, Montgomery County state representative Niraj Antani (R-Miamisburg) is on January 23, 2019 to introduce yet another of many […]
Gambling––on dogs & dollars––erodes animal care & control ethic
Embezzling cases & pit bull attack deaths both reflect crap game culture SYRACUSE (NY), DAYTON (OH), COLUMBIA (MD)––The U.S. animal care-and-control community has an untreated gambling problem, getting worse instead of better. In the first half of the 20th century, when humane education was closely linked to moral education, no major humane conference would […]
Three dead, two critically injured, in hotbeds of pit bull advocacy
Fresno County, California and Montgomery County, Ohio lead U.S. in fatal dog attacks since 2005 Q– What did five recent victims of nearly fatal or fatal pit bull attacks identified during the last week of April 2017 have in common? A – All five victims were killed or suffered critical injuries in communities that are […]
Animal control director can be sued for dog attack death, court rules
Mark Kumpf to stand trial in case by survivors of Klonda Richey This is part I of a two-part series. See also Court rejects animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s defenses. DAYTON, Ohio––The Ohio Second Appellate District Court of Appeals on July 29, 2016 overturned an earlier trial court finding that Montgomery County Animal Resources Center director Mark Kumpf […]
Court rejects animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s defenses
Sued for alleged negligence causing death of dog attack victim Klonda Richey This is part II of a two-part series. See also Animal control director can be sued for dog attack death, court rules. Most of the July 29, 2016 Ohio Second Appellate District Court of Appeals finding that Montgomery County Animal Resources Center director Mark Kumpf may […]