Recurring pattern continues to elude the animal care-and-control community, much of law enforcement, mass media, and the public NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––Social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic kept people and dogs home in 2020, cutting reported dog attacks on other animals by more than half in 2020 from the annual average since ANIMALS […]
Nine really useful things you can do for Dog Bite Prevention Week
Yes, this is Dog Bite Prevention Week!!! 1. First of all, find out who founded Dog Bite Prevention Week sixty years ago, in 1956, why, and what has become of this groundbreaking public safety initiative since then: Dog Bite Prevention Weak. 2. Find out which dogs killed a record 33 people last year, and disfigured […]
Voices of pit bull experience
Voices of pit bull experience • 16 real-life tips for surviving a dog attack (2021 edition) • Parents try to raise children safely; pit bulls et al have other ideas • Pit bulls: A retired humane professional speaks out at last, by Deborah Turner • Pit bulls: An active 40+ year shelter director speaks out […]
Pit bull wisdom & dog pound foolishness
by Liz Marsden On April 29, 2015 I testified before the Rhode Island House Health, Education, and Welfare Committee against a bill, H. 5585, which if passed would require law enforcement agencies to transfer dogs impounded in raids on suspected dogfighters to “The SPCA” for adoption to the public or transfer to an “appropriate rescue […]