When a nine-year humane society president and a four-year animal control agency chief in the same city both have had more dog attack fatalities on their watch than anyone else in comparable positions ever, 85% by pit bulls, what does that tell you? DETROIT, Michigan––Lovell Anderson, 4, playing in his own fenced Detroit backyard under […]
Pit bulls kill 2 women, 2 days apart. Small town cares; does Toledo?
Response to fatal pit bull attacks in Genoa, Arkansas, and Toledo, Ohio, could scarcely be more different. GENOA, Arkansas; TOLEDO, Ohio––Fatally mauled by pit bulls in their own yards two days apart, on September 24, 2023 and September 26, 2023, respectively, Brenda Lynn Witt, 60, of Genoa, Arkansas, and Diane Etta Knepper, 70, of Toledo, […]
Waterloo denies pit bull killed baby; Tulsa ignores 2 more pit bull deaths
Tulsa Animal Services, police, & media say nothing of three fatal pit bull attacks in 10 days WATERLOO, Iowa; TULSA, Oklahoma––“Authorities are trying to determine how a beloved family pet turned into a killer, attacking a baby in a tragedy that shook the Waterloo community,” wrote Waterloo Courier reporter Jeff Reinitz on May 4, 2023. […]
Does not acknowledging a fatal pit bull attack mean it did not happen?
Tulsa silence is deafening TULSA, Oklahoma––How do the Tulsa Police Department and City of Tulsa Animal Welfare Department suppress rising public alarm over fatal and disfiguring dog attacks, primarily by pit bulls? Perhaps by pretending that such attacks have not occurred? On April 19, 2023, ANIMALS 24-7 received information relayed through a longtime trusted confidential […]
Pit bulls kill would-be rescuer in Detroit & two-year-old in Maryland
Two fatal attacks in one day––& one of the pit bulls allegedly killed before DETROIT, Michigan; BRUNSWICK, Maryland––“Rescue” pit bulls on April 4, 2023 killed a 58-year-old man who was reportedly trying to feed them at an old warehouse in Detroit, Michigan, and a two-year-old boy at his grandmother’s house in Brunswick, Maryland. The Detroit […]
Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”
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 […]
Emily Kahl: 16th fatality attributable to 2012 gutting of Ohio dog law
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 […]
2020 began & ended with pit bulls killing babies in Dayton, Ohio
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 […]
Montgomery County to pay $3.5 million to survivors of Klonda Richey
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 […]
Deaths by pit bull: will new California law slow the mayhem?
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 […]