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Pit bulls on aircraft: ANIMALS 24-7 responds to federal proposal

February 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

To: DOT-OST-2018-0068 Docket Management Facility U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590-0001 In response to: RIN No. 2105–AE63 Traveling by Air with Service Animals AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). From: Merritt & […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Anne Hornish, Beth Clifton, Delores Del Rio, Frankie Flora, Janet D'Aleo, Joshua Philip Strother, Merritt Clifton, Rebecca Carey

Are pit bulls monsters or are they just dogs?

January 2, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

And what are pit bull advocates? by Beth Clifton Photos, memes and videos posted to social media and the Internet by pit bull advocates continually share and amplify the message that pit bulls are not monsters,  despite the rapidly rising body count associated with them. We are urged to believe instead the myth that pit […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Opinions & Letters, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Barrett Hagans, Beth Clifton, Bethany Lynn Stephens, Darla Napora, Jase Fohs, Rebecca Carey, Susannah Jean Murray, Tracy Patterson Cornelius

What pit bull advocates don’t learn from their own maulings

December 10, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

“Sometimes things are just too broken to fix”             FREDONIA,  Arizona––Severely injured by one of her own pit bulls on December 4,  2017,   Jacqueline Bedsaul Johnson,  61,  lost little time in reasserting her determination to continue militant online pit bull advocacy,  even if she cannot use her hands to type. Explained her daughter Adria in […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Arin Greenwood, Ashley Prater, Emily Weiss, Jacqueline Bedsaul Johnson, Linda Van Kirk, Merritt Clifton, Paul Caster, Phyllis Dougherty, Rebecca Carey

Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle

July 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pits kill four people in five years within 15 minutes of Pacelle’s family home,  but he calls us insanely aggressive A 10-year-old girl in Bridgeport,  Connecticut will require multiple surgeries over the next several years to repair damage inflicted on July 18,  2017 by a family member’s pit bull.  The pit bull first attacked a […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food & agriculture, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Ann Landers, Becky Robinson, Brody Mullins, David Wills, Henry Bergh, Jocelyn Winfrey, Louise Holton, Marritt Clifton, Mary Lou Sappone, Rebecca Carey, Wayne Pacelle

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