Meals on Wheels driver & second grade teacher also among week’s pit bull death toll OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma; THOMASVILLE, Georgia; TYLER, Texas––Locklynn McGuire, whose third birthday was to have been on December 12, 2025, 73-year-old retired Duke Energy employee, volunteer firefighter, and Meals on Wheels driver Michael Bodenheimer, and 23-year-old second grade teacher Madison Hull […]
Patt Nordyke, 90, founded the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies
Involved in humane work for nearly 70 years Patt Nordyke, 90, founder of the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies and a leader in Texas animal advocacy long before that, died on February 6, 2017, seven weeks after breaking her femur at the hip in an early morning fall on December 18, 2016. She had […]
Texas fatal dog attacks bring proposed life sentence & new breed-specific injury data
AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO–The Texas House of Representatives on May 4, 2011 approved by a vote of 123 to 7 a bill which could send the keepers of a dog who kills a child or a senior citizen to prison for life. Assigned to the Texas Senate criminal justice committee on May 5, the bill appeared to be unlikely […]