Fresno County, California and Montgomery County, Ohio lead U.S. in fatal dog attacks since 2005 Q– What did five recent victims of nearly fatal or fatal pit bull attacks identified during the last week of April 2017 have in common? A – All five victims were killed or suffered critical injuries in communities that are […]
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 […]
91% of dog attack disfigurement victims in 2016 were mauled by pit bulls
Total reported disfiguring dog attacks for the first time topped 1,000 A record 1,075 dogs, including an also-record 741 pit bulls (69%), participated in attacks disfiguring 631 Americans and Canadians in 2016, according to the breed-specific log of fatal and disfiguring dog attacks kept by ANIMALS 24-7 editor Merritt Clifton since 1982. Of the disfigured […]