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Soccer hero Philemon Mulala is latest South African pit bull victim

January 12, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

South African pit bull-inflicted fatality rate,  over past 100 days,  soars to four times the U.S. record rate of 2022 LICHTENBERG,  South Africa––Few Americans would recognize the name Philemon Mulala,  but among soccer fans in Africa,  he enjoyed approximately the fame of a major league baseball player who punctuated a career longer than most by […]

Filed Under: Africa, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, South Africa, Sports, Zambia Tagged With: Cape Town Spurs, Giyani Dynamos, Johannesburg Rangers, Lillian Chileshe, Merritt Clifton, Mufulira Wanderers, Philemon Kaunda, Staffordshire

Pit bull fatality streak reaches seven in eight days

July 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Includes new U.K. record for dog attack deaths in a year             NOELVILLE,  Ontario;  WEST MELTON, South Yorkshire––Chuck Evans,  83,  and Joanne Robinson,  43,  on July 14 and July 15,  2022 respectively became the sixth and seventh known pit bull attack fatalities in eight days,  worldwide. (See Five pit bull attack deaths in five days: […]

Filed Under: Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Rabies, The Americas, United Kingdom Tagged With: American Bully XL, Chuck Evans, Darren MacDonald, Dotty Robinson, Doug Ford, Joanne Robinson, Merritt Clifton, Staffordshire

U.K. Dangerous Dogs Act exempts the two breeds most likely to kill

May 3, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bella-Rae Birch, Joseph Broady, Kieran Gair, Lawson Bond, Merritt Clifton, Rod Liddle, Rottweiler, Staffordshire

Pit bulls, greenhouse gases, & poop: the solution is not dilution

November 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  pit bull breeding kennels & the Tower of Babel VAUGHAN, Ontario;  CAERPHILLY, Wales;  DURBANVILLE,  South Africa;  OKLAHOMA CITY,  Oklahoma––“The solution to pollution is dilution,”  industrial polluters frequently persuaded politicians,  back in the early days of the environmental movement,  long before either pit bull attacks or greenhouse gases became a hot public issue. In the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Breeding, Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, South Africa, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Caerphilly, Doug Ford, Goedemoed, Jack Lis, Merritt Clifton, Muhammad Almutaz Alzghool, Staffordshire, Tommy Chang

COVID-19 boosts Labs, goldens, & small dogs; pit bull breeders crash

July 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Stay home” orders bring sharp turn toward safe dogs Eighteen of the 28 Americans killed by dogs by the Fourth of July,  2020,  including 15 pit bull victims,  two killed by mastiffs,  and one killed by a Malinois,  were killed by their own family dogs in their own homes––a record pace of mayhem in every […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Greyhounds, Lab animals, Mediterranean, Science, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Chihuahua, Lowchen, Malinois, Staffordshire

Dog attacks surge 76% in England in 10 years, coinciding with exemption of Staffordshire pit bulls from the Dangerous Dogs Act

October 14, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Staffordshire exemption sentenced society to suffer mayhem Part II of a three-part series also including: How the League Against Cruel Sports is defending dogfighting and Unleashed:  The Phenomena of Status Dogs and Weapon Dogs, by Simon Harding          LONDON, U.K.––Dog attacks in England increased by 76% in 10 years and appear to be still rising rapidly in […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Isles, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Dangerous Dogs Act, pit bull, Staffordshire

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