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Caring for bears & a homeless woman contrasts to caring only about pit bulls

October 31, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Help Asheville Bears founder stands up for human victim;  Maddie’s Fund program director urges concealing dog attack risk to humans & other animals             ASHEVILLE, N.C.;  AUSTIN, Texas––Somewhere along the line,  Help Asheville Bears founder Jody Williams learned the ethical principle of not causing harm to other living things,  called ahimsa by Hindus,  Buddhists,  and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Buddhism, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: David and Cheryl Duffield, Jody Williams, Kristen Auerbach, Kristen Hassen, Merritt Clifton, Richard Avanzino

Pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin could get 81 years for killing dogs & fraud

August 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Bond of $200,000 set for “The hot dog man,” allegedly caught hot dogging a few times too often  MARYSVILLE, Ohio­­––Bond of $200,000 was set on August 5,  2020 for high-profile pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin by Judge Mark O’Connor of the Common Pleas Court in Union County,  Ohio. Arrested on July 23,  2020 in Acton,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, Training, USA Tagged With: Angelo and Litsa Kargakos, Brenda Barnette, Eileen Jefferson, Jacqeline Bedsaul Johnson, Jeffery Luke Westerman, Kristen Auerbach, Mac Cordell, Merritt Clifton, Saskia Boisot, Sharon Logan, Steffen Evan Baldwin, Steffen Evan Finkelstein

Deaths by pit bull: will new California law slow the mayhem?

January 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Prosecuting shelters for withholding bite history might be a start             DAYTON, Ohio;  CONWAY,  Kentucky;  LOS ANGELES,  California––The first two U.S. dog attack fatalities to be reported in 2020,  both involving pit bulls,  upstaged the possibly more indicative resignations of two strong pit bull advocates from senior positions with Los Angeles Animal Services and Orange […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Aimee Sadler, Brenda Barnette, David Goldstein, Donnie Abner, Heather Anglin, Kristen Auerbach, Lasaro Macedo, Lorena Cordova, Madeline Bernstein, Mark Kumpf, Mary Shoup, McKenzie Terwell, Melissa Daniel, Melissa Wolke, Merritt Clifton, Michael Kaviani, Noah Biesiada, Parker Terwell, Phyllis Daugherty

Virginia bars shelters & rescues from hiding dogs’ bite history

May 30, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

No more “Don’t ask,  don’t tell” for pit bulls RICHMOND, Virginia––The era of shelters and rescues concealing dog attack history from prospective adopters is over,  says the Virginia state legislature,  effective July 1,  2018. But the widespread practice of hiding dogs’ violent histories cost Virginia Beach resident Margaret M. Colvin her life on June 1,  […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Barry McCabe, Kristen Auerbach, Margaret M. Colvin, Merritt Clifton

More deaths in South Africa despite Pit Bull Federation warning

February 20, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

National SPCA and U.S. counterparts continue pushing pits, heedless of consequence             PRETORIA––Has South Africa learned anything,  the National SPCA of South Africa in particular,  from the stern warning issued by the Pit Bull Federation of South Africa in November 2017 about rehoming pit bulls of dangerous history? Apparently not.  Retired police officer Henry Kleynhans,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Andrea McCarren, Barry McCabe, Brett Powlesland, Henry Kleynhans, Jamie Cochran, Kristen Auerbach, Laurie Hollywood, Margaret M. Colvin, Merritt Clifton, Rita Boschoff, Tyler Harrison

What is the Austin Animal Center doing to dogs in the name of “play”?

September 30, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

It isn’t “play” when a dog is terrorized or hurt Seasoned humane volunteer Delwin Goss  on September 28,  2015 reported witnessing “playgroup” behavioral assessment at the Austin Animal Center using methods which repeatedly subjected one dog to the threat of attack and sometimes actual attack.  This activity,  in his view and that of ANIMALS 24-7, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, Training, USA Tagged With: Aimee Sadler, Austin Animal Center, Delwin Goss, Kristen Auerbach, Merritt Clifton

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