Took daughter’s pit bull out; daughter’s pit bull took her out TOLEDO, Ohio––Washington Local Schools bus driver Bonnie Varnes, 58, who prominently advocated for pit bulls on social media, was on February 20, 2023 killed by one of her daughter Amelia Brooke Varnes’s two pit bulls. Amina the pit bull was leashed as Bonnie Varnes […]
Emily Kahl: 16th fatality attributable to 2012 gutting of Ohio dog law
Toledo Blade publisher John Robinson Block pushed to delist pit bulls as “inherently vicious” TOLEDO, Ohio––Toledo Blade reporters Alexandra Mester and John Besche on July 22, 2021 published a detailed report on the pit bull attack death of Toledo resident Emily Kahl, 31, four days earlier. Mester and Besche mentioned every significant detail about Kahl’s […]
Mary Pat Boatfield, 64, legendary humane educator & trainer
Headed animal shelters for 31 years Mary Pat Boatfield, 64, called 911 on June 18, 2014, due to a medical emergency believed to have been a heart attack, but died at her home in Columbia, Missouri, before the emergency medical technicians arrived. Boatfield had served as executive director of the Central Missouri Humane Society […]