First-ever election win for pit bull advocates SPRINGFIELD, Missouri––Out-spending voices for animal and human safety by a margin perhaps as high as $10,000 to $1.00, pit bull advocates on August 7, 2018 celebrated their first-ever defeat of a pit bull ban in a municipal general election. Reversing the outcome of earlier attempts to repeal […]
From pit bulls to street dogs, irresponsible advocacy inflames “dog menace”
Dismissing dangerous dog behavior––or blaming the victims––disregards public trust SPRINGFIELD, Missouri; PHUKET, Thailand––Superficially, the dog-versus-human conflicts raging in Springfield, Missouri, where breed-specific legislation is at issue, and in Phuket, Thailand, where few dogs have any evident breed-specific traits, could scarcely look more different. Pit bull attacks are the problem in Springfield: 38 in three […]
Springfield may become third city to vote on pit bull ban
More than 60% of voters approved bans in Miami-Dade, Florida, and Aurora, Colorado SPRINGFIELD, Missouri––Needing 2,228 petition signatures from registered voters to put a newly passed ban on pit bulls on the April 2018 Springfield, Missouri, city ballot, pit bull advocates on Halloween 2017 submitted petitions bearing 7,883 signatures to city clerk Anita Cotter. […]