Detroit victim Harold Phillips was the third of 76 U.S. dog attack deaths in 2024, all listed below DETROIT, Michigan––Pit bull owner Roy Goodman, 41, was on January 3, 2025 sentenced to serve from two and a half to 15 years in prison for the January 31, 2024 mauling death of neighbor Harold Phillips, 35. […]
Pit bull victim Kingsley Wright, age 3, was 70th dog attack death of 2024
Kingsley Renee Wright was also the 20th known pit bull fatality in Ohio since repeal of pit bull control law CINCINNATI, Ohio––Three-year-old Kingsley Renee Wright on December 27, 2024, in the Roselawn district on the north side of Cincinnati, Ohio, became the record-tying 70th U.S. dog attack fatality of the year, and the 50th known […]
Pit bulls kill four in last two days of January 2024
Detroit pit bull victim Harold Phillips dies after four days on life support INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana; BLACKFOOT, Idaho; DETROIT, Michigan; OCEAN VIEW, Hawaii––Less than 48 hours before January 2024 might have become the first month since November 2020 without a pit bull-inflicted human fatality occurring somewhere around the U.S., Carlon Galloway, Willie Mundine, Harold Phillips, […]
Detroit animal control & humane society dog attack prevention fails again
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 […]