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“Return-to-field” = animal control neglect of duty, two cases allege

February 1, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Accused of hoarding but not charged,  no-kill shelter operator sues Los Angeles County Animal Care & Control LITTLEROCK,  California––A new strategic twist in the perpetual running battle between alleged animal hoarders and animal control agencies trying to prosecute them popped up in a January 30,  2023 web posting from the High Desert Animal Alliance,  issued […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Dawn Danielson, Julia Mildenberger, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Pamela Devitt

L.A. County pays $3 million to family of pit bull owner killed by ricochet

September 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull had already bitten cop;  cops are injured by pit bulls 14.5 times more often now than pre-Michael Vick             LOS ANGELES,  Calif.;  ARLINGTON,  Texas––The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on September 17,  2019 agreed to pay $3 million to the family of Armando Garcia,  17,  killed by an accidental ricochet on June […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Armando Garcia, Autumn Mae Steele, Johana Villafane, Kelsie Rose Hauser, Margarita "Maggie" Victoria Brooks, Merritt Clifton, Nelson Cabrera, Pamela Devitt

Shelters make mega-payouts to pit bull victims: what will change?

September 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Two seven-figure settlements in five days might make “socially responsible sheltering the new norm––if the idea isn’t corrupted             LOS ANGELES, California;  FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida––Representatives of pit bull attack victims twice in five days in early September 2019 announced apparent record-setting damage awards from animal care and control agencies for alleged negligence in allowing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Apryl Steele, Doug Rae, Jan McHugh-Smith, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Paige Woody, Pamela Devitt, Zoey Green

L.A. County tightens dog policies; Albuquerque drops the ball

April 12, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

New animal control boss in Albuquerque caught repeating the old boss’s errors          ALBUQUERQUE,  LOS ANGELES––Los Angeles County Animal Control marked Dog Bite Prevention Week 2017,  April 9-15,  by moving decisively to try to ensure that only dogs deemed safe for adoption leave the county shelters. Albuquerque Animal Welfare fumbled to explain why a staff […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Alex Donald Jackson, Barbara Bruin, Gabrielle Burkhart, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Pamela Devitt, Paul Caster, Phyllis M. Daugherty, Ray Marquez

Dog attack deaths bring sentences ranging from 0 to life

April 27, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Less time in cases with non-white victims          Human death resulting from dog caretaker negligence in the first third of 2016 brought or affirmed sentences of four convicted dog owners ranging from no time served to a potential life sentence. The four cases were similar,  each involving dangerous dogs either running at large or left unattended […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Right, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Alex Donald Jackson, Annie Williams, Bobbie Green, Daniel McCollum, De'Trick Johnson, Horatio Gonzalez, Jose Cruz Cazares Robles, Judge Stan Allen, Judge Stuart Friedman, Leon Morton, Merritt Clifton, Pamela Devitt, Santiago Veer

$37 million verdict ups the ante for pit bull attacks

January 15, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Police sergeant beat the dogs off the victim with his baton, then fatally shot one of them when he was attacked himself. DECATUR, Georgia––Five years of legal and political history resulting from a March 9, 2010 pit bull attack on then-eight-year-old Erin Ingram gained another chapter on January 12, 2015 when DeKalb County senior judge […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Alan Hill, Erin Ingram, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Pamela Devitt, Thomas Newell

Three pit bull stories to chew on

October 7, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

News analysis by Barbara Kay  The news cycle of the last two weeks has turned up two remarkable pit bull-related stories in North America, both worthy of editorial mastication, so to speak.  There is a third story, also noteworthy and included below, which didn’t make the mainstream news, but should have. The first story, out […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, The Americas Tagged With: ArtPrize, Barbara Kay, Joan Marie Kowal, Pamela Devitt, Rachel Jensen

Lenient animal control policies toward bully breeds were in background of four of five recent death-by-dog cases

August 30, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Alex Donald Jackson found guilty of second-degree murder in Pamela Devitt death            LOS ANGELES––Alex Donald Jackson, 31, of Littlerock, California, was on August 29, 2014 found guilty of second-degree murder for the pit bull mauling death of Palmdale resident Pamela Devitt, 63. The case was among at least five murder or […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs & Cats Tagged With: Alex Donald Jackson, Pamela Devitt, Sebastiano Quagliata, Steven Hayashi, Valbona Lucaj

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