Two-year-old & 17-month-old are two latest victims of legal omission WORCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom––A pre-inquest review of the March 28, 2022 fatal Rottweiler mauling of two-year-old Lawson Bond, now set for August 31, 2022 in Stourport, is likely to investigate every aspect of Bond’s death except the obvious: that the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, supposed to […]
How to protect yourself, others, & your dog from a pit bull attack (2022)
Tips based on 40 years’ worth of data by Merritt & Beth Clifton The Collier County Sheriff’s Office, in East Naples, Florida, recently honored school bus driver Fabian Golac for heroism in saving a woman and her poodle from a January 2022 pit bull attack that could easily have been fatal. “I picked up the kids, […]
Best Friends wants you pay more for insurance to subsidize pit bulls
Why laws forcing insurers to cover pit bulls, Rottweilers, et al are literally no skin off the insurance industry’s buttocks ALBANY, New York; PHOENIX, Arizona; RENO, Nevada––New York and Nevada state laws have since the beginning of 2022 required every homeowner and renter to subsidize the few who keep pit bulls by prohibiting insurance […]
2018 dog breed survey: at least 41% of U.S. pit bull population are seeking homes
21% of U.S. pit bulls currently available are in first year of life; 19% have lost at least one home Nearly 15% of the dogs available to the U.S. public for sale or adoption as of mid-June 2018 were pit bulls, but that scarcely made pit bulls the most popular breed. Rather, the numbers indicate […]
Dog attack deaths & maimings, U.S. & Canada, 1982-2016
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The RSPCA recommends you & your pets for a pit bull’s dinner
Breed Specific Legislation: A Dog’s Dinner by the Royal SPCA of Britain (no individual author credited) Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Free download from: https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/staticImages/Downloads/BSL_Report.pdf The Royal SPCA of Britain could scarcely have chosen a title more dismissive of dog attack victims, both animal and human, under which to try once again to dismantle […]
2016 survey: List of top 5 U.S. dog breed types ousts pit bulls
Pits fall to lowest since 2010 relative to other top breed types Non-pit bull small terriers, the hound category, large retrievers, and dachshunds all have a legitimate claim to being the most popular dog type in the U.S., according to the seventh annual ANIMALS 24-7 survey of classified ads offering dogs for sale or adoption. Data […]
Shelter dogs wreak havoc at either end of the Taconic Parkway
Stamford Animal Shelter & Mohawk-Hudson Humane Society STAMFORD, Connecticut; ALBANY, New York––Attacks by shelter dogs, occurring in 2014 at an unprecedented pace, were spotlighted again during the last week in June near either end of the Taconic Parkway, linking the outer New York City suburbs to the New York state […]