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Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”

March 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7             DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi,  who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,”  rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12,  2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, Diane Orenchuk, Humane Society of the U.S., Kristine Millman-Rinaldi, Maddie's Fund, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton

Emily Kahl: 16th fatality attributable to 2012 gutting of Ohio dog law

July 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Toledo Blade publisher John Robinson Block pushed to delist pit bulls as “inherently vicious” TOLEDO, Ohio––Toledo Blade reporters Alexandra Mester and John Besche on July 22,  2021 published a detailed report on the pit bull attack death of Toledo resident Emily Kahl,  31,  four days earlier. Mester and Besche mentioned every significant detail about Kahl’s […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Emily Kahl, John Robinson Block, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Holloway, Tom Skeldon

2020 began & ended with pit bulls killing babies in Dayton, Ohio

January 3, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Raelynn Larrison death on New Year’s Eve warrants further in-depth investigation             DAYTON, Ohio––The year 2020 ended as it began in Dayton,  Ohio,  with a pit bull killing the four-month-old daughter of a mother with drug issues while a parent slept nearby. The differences between the December 31,  2020 death of Raelynn Larrison,  to date […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton, Raelynn Larrison, Rob Larrison, Rob Oliver Closeoff, Samantha Slaven

Montgomery County to pay $3.5 million to survivors of Klonda Richey

March 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Settlement includes no skin off former animal control chief Mark Kumpf’s ass             DAYTON, Ohio––The Montgomery County,  Ohio board of commissioners are on March 31,  2020 expected to approve a $3.5 million settlement with survivors of Klonda Richey. Richey,  57,  was on February 7,  2014 fatally mauled by her next door neighbors’ two dogs,  variously […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Andrew Nason, Chris Stewart, Julie Custer, Klonda Richey, Laura A. Bischoff, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton, Niraj Antani

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

How did Kumpf get elected top Detroit dogcatcher? Inside info raises questions

September 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Editor’s note: The September 24,  2019 ANIMALS 24-7 article Mark Kumpf named Detroit animal control chief. Remember Klonda Richey? drew many responses,  none more revealing than this one from Ed Boks,  another applicant for the job,  who formerly headed the animal control agencies serving Maricopa County,  Arizona;  New York City;  and the city of Los […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Daryl Conrad, Denise Starr, Ed Boks, Hakim Berry, Mark Kumpf, Orendall Jones

Mark Kumpf named Detroit animal control chief. Remember Klonda Richey?

September 24, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Richey was third of five human dog attack fatalities during Kumpf tenure in Dayton             DETROIT––With the Motor City still grieving over the August 19,  2019 fatal mauling of nine-year-old Emma Hernandez by three pit bulls running at large,  Detroit chief operating officer Hakim Berry on September 23,  2019 named a new animal control director:  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Christine Ferretti, Hakim Berry, Klonda Richey, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton, Theresa Sumpter

WA undoes pit bull bans that protected humans & animals in 27 cities

May 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

But if a pit bull kills you in Washington state,  you can now have your remains composted             OLYMPIA, Washington––Between issuing campaign statements as one of 21 contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination to run for U.S. president,  and signing a bill allowing Washingtonians to have their remains composted,  Washington governor Jay Inslee on May […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Essex Porter, Isaiah Geiling, Jay Inslee, Kyna Marie Pamela Deshane, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton, Robinson Block, Sherry Appleton

Kumpf out, but new bill won’t undo harm he did to Ohio dog law

January 23, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“The evil men do lives after them,”  but pit bull victims are dead forever             DAYTON,  Ohio––Seven years after former Montgomery County dog warden Mark Kumpf led the campaign that effectively dismantled the Ohio dangerous dog law,  Montgomery County state representative Niraj Antani (R-Miamisburg) is on January 23,  2019 to introduce yet another of many […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Chris Stewart, Klonda Richey, Mark Kumpf, Maurice Brown, Merritt Clifton, Niraj Antani, Sara Pizano, Savvanah Coleman

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

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