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All 40 of the 2017 pit bull attack human fatalities (U.S. & Canada)

December 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

2017 pit bull fatalities 1) Logan Bratz, 6,  was killed and his friend Syrai Sanders,  5,  was seriously injured by two pit bulls on January 18,  2017 as they walked to school with their mothers in Atlanta,  Georgia.   2) Valentin Herrera, 76,  of Los Angeles, California,  was killed by two pit bulls on February […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats Tagged With: Cecille Short, Emily Mae Colvin, Logan Bratz, Margaret Colvin, Maurice Brown, Merritt Clifton

Gambling––on dogs & dollars––erodes animal care & control ethic

September 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Doggie Miller, Klonda Richey, Margaret Colvin, Mark Kumpf, Maurice Brown, Merritt Clifton, O. Robinson Casey, Paul Morgan, Peanut Kilby, Robin Conway

Akita rescuer Carol Harris is record 5th fatality of 2017 by shelter dogs

December 22, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Killed in kennel by dog of unknown history during socialization session             PHOENIX,  Arizona––Carol Harris,  69,  a 12-year volunteer for Akita Advocates Relocation Team Arizona,  shared two Akitas with her husband Kenneth. The Harrises fostered four other Akitas. Carol Harris “adored the breed and worked hard to find them loving homes,”  having helped to rehome […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bill DeSteph, Joe Miano, Kenneth Harris, Kristin Pietrykowski, Lee Curtis, Margaret Colvin, Maria Hechanova, Merritt Clifton, Sharon Adams

Emily Mae Colvin, 24, is record 35th U.S. pit bull fatality of 2017

December 8, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Death came on Pearl Harbor Day JACKSON COUNTY,  Alabama––On this day,  December 7,  2017,  a date which will live in infamy only until the next fatal pit bull attack,  24-year-old Emily Mae Colvin of Section,  Alabama for reasons unknown stepped outside the low chain link fence keeping her dog confined alongside County Road 121,  and […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Emily Mae Colvin, Eric Colvin, Margaret Colvin, Merritt Clifton, Sheriff Chuck Phillips, Tracy Patterson Cornelius, Valeria Hinojosa

Shelter director resigns in Maine “lost” pit bulls case

October 30, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bulls still at large             WATERVILLE,  Maine––Two pit bulls taken by owner Danielle Jones from the Humane Society Waterville Area on October 24,  2017 remain at large,  a week after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a Kennebec District Court order that the pit bulls,  named Bentley and Kole,  should be euthanized for repeatedly […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Daniel Jones, Jamie Cochran, Linda Patterson, Lisa Smith, Lucas Harrison, Margaret Colvin, Merritt Clifton, Michael Brown, Toni Enright

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