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 […]
How did Kumpf get elected top Detroit dogcatcher? Inside info raises questions
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 […]
Mark Kumpf named Detroit animal control chief. Remember Klonda Richey?
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: […]
WA undoes pit bull bans that protected humans & animals in 27 cities
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 […]
Kumpf out, but new bill won’t undo harm he did to Ohio dog law
“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 […]
Gambling––on dogs & dollars––erodes animal care & control ethic
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 […]