Phenix City goes to the dogs (& transfers dogs to laboratories) PHENIX CITY, Alabama––Frank Jerome “Red” Cobb, 70, killed by a pit bull on September 21, 2021, was at least the sixth pit bull-related fatality linked to Phenix City, Alabama, population 36,000, since 1988. Only three of the deaths, including Cobb’s. actually occurred within […]
“Educate yourself”: pit bulls in schools run amok
More than 70 children injured & at least five killed in U.S. schools or on way to school since 2005 SEATTLE, Washington; YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio––Two pit bulls escaped from a nearby home, ran into St. Therese Catholic Academy in Seattle on December 13, 2018, bit several students and reportedly dragged 8-year-old Doris Dickerson. Three teachers pulled […]
Pit bulls & “proximate cause” deaths
Victims are just as dead if not bitten to death James E. Bennett, 79, of Palm Coast, Florida, died of a heart attack on February 22, 2017, three days after he and his wife Sandra were both hospitalized after unsuccessfully trying to protect Gidget, their seven-year-old Yorkie, from an unprovoked attack by a pit bull […]