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Six pit bull-related deaths linked to “The Wickedest City in America”

October 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal fighting, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Cason Bryant, Curtis Grantham, Frank Jerome "Red" Cobb, Katie Morrison, Merritt Clifton, Miracle Parham, Phenix City, Richard Adams, Rose Medley, Thomas Poole, Warren Fielding

“Educate yourself”: pit bulls in schools run amok

December 16, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Angie Hands, Angie Nickerson, Ashley Triplett, Christopher Wilson, Doris Dickerson, Greg Wolfram, Logan Braatz, Merritt Clifton, Miracle Parham, Sabine M. Davidson, Viola Sheeler, Xavier Strickland

Pit bulls & “proximate cause” deaths

March 4, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Christian Dallett, Davon Jiggetts, Hao Yun Lin, James E. Bennett, James Harding, King Boots, Lana Amuny, Manjamma, Merritt Clifton, Miracle Parham, Robert Simonian, Ryan Brown, Teresa Foss, Valente Lopez Aguirre

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