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For Animal Rights & Human Rights: A Case for Breed-Specific Legislation

February 26, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Why do we let people breed “bully” dogs, let alone sell them? by Lee Hall The orientation for new U.S. mail carriers includes a half-day of video clips showing guard dogs charging professional dog trainers. The carrier learns: When taken on by an aggressive dog—and as a mail carrier you will be, probably soon and […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters Tagged With: bully breeds, Lee Hall, pit-bulls, Rottweilers

Anti-Vaxxers and the pit bull advocacy movement

February 7, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Barbara Kay & Merritt Clifton Reasonable people tend to overestimate the role that reason plays in history and in their own culture, and also tend to overestimate the power reason has to combat the theories, belief systems and emotions that drive people to action––or inaction ––much of the time. Unreasonable theories, belief systems and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Opinion, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: anti-vaccination, Barbara Kay, Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls

How many other animals did pit bulls kill in 2014?

January 27, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Of the 82,000 animal victims per year, 59,000 die; 23,000 survive their injuries. Fifty thousand dogs per year, including at least 34,250 pit bulls, attack other animals, according to ANIMALS 24-7 analysis of dog attack data from 2013-2014. Of the 82,000 animal victims per year, 59,000 die; 23,000 survive their injuries. Among the dead are […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls

Record low shelter killing raises both hopes & questions

November 14, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Fewer dogs & cats are being killed––but are shelters simply relegating the killing to others? U.S. animal shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years––nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent fiscal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6 per 1,000 Americans, the lowest […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: feral cats, Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls, shelter killing

Oakland hires former SF animal control chief Rebecca Katz to face Nathan Winograd and pit bull advocates in their lair

November 1, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“To oversee the transition of Oakland Animal Services” OAKLAND––The City of Oakland on October 29, 2014 announced the hiring of former San Francisco Animal Care & Control director Rebecca Katz, 43, “to oversee the transition of Oakland Animal Services into a stand-alone department in the city administrator’s office.”  Katz is to begin work on November […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: BADRAP, Martha Cline, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Oakland Animal Services, pit-bulls, Rebecca Katz

A fireside message from Merritt Clifton

October 27, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

I don’t always warn people about pit bulls.  Sometimes I talk about Chihuahuas. And,  with the help of a few dedicated assistants,  I investigate and write about every aspect of the human/animal relationship,  from animal rights and animal welfare to zoological conservation and zoonotic disease control –– always focused on what we can do that […]

Filed Under: Editorials, Opinions & Letters Tagged With: Chihuahuas, Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls, roadkills

“Don’t bully my breed, but we will bully the victims.”

September 30, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Beth Clifton A tribute art memorial entitled “Out of the Blue,” honoring 30 recent victims of fatal dog attacks, was unveiled on September 24, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan by Wyoming,  Michigan resident Joan Kowal as an entry in ArtPrize, an annual outdoor art contest attracting upward of 1,500 entrants and more than 400,000 […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Joan Kowal, pit-bulls

An impromptu debate about pit bulls

July 22, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Beth Clifton ANIMALS 24-7 editor Merritt Clifton was confronted at the recent AR 2014 conference in Los Angeles by several pit bull advocates,  following a panel discussion of issues in animal control and sheltering with Los Angeles Department of Animal Regulation general manager Brenda Barnette and Best Friends Animal Society cofounder Francis Battista. Merritt, […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Population control, Uses of dogs Tagged With: AR 2014, Beth Robbins, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, pit-bulls

Large retrievers still nearly twice as popular as pit bulls

July 22, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Fifth annual survey An ANIMALS 24-7 electronic survey of 206,014 classified ads offering dogs for sale or adoption confirms that large retrievers are still by far and away the most popular dogs in the U.S. Births of pit bulls and their close mixes are continuing to increase at the rate of about 10% per year. […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top Tagged With: Chihuahuas, Dachshunds, Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls, Retrievers

Pit bulls were 32% of U.S. shelter inventory in June 2014

July 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

More pit bulls in no-kill shelters About two-thirds of the dogs in U.S. shelters as of June 2014 were housed by tax-funded animal care and control facilities, 22% were housed by open-admission humane societies, and 12% were housed by selective admission no-kill shelters and rescues, according to the annual ANIMALS 24-7 summer survey of shelter […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Population control, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Chihuahuas, Merritt Clifton, no-kill shelters, pit-bulls

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