The complete 2021 dog-inflicted death log is below. To see the complete 1982-2021 log summaries, please click here: 2021 final dog attack stats with breed. Pit bull 1) Cameron Hatfield, 6, January 20, 2021, Seabrooke, SC. Found/rescued pit bull. (See Parents try to raise children safely; pit bulls et al have other ideas.) 2) Dreka Joe […]
No-kill drive leaves TN county with no shelter & as many strays as ever
Not a fraction enough s/n done to be no-kill, deadly dogs running amok, & humane society near broke NEWPORT, Tennessee––Locally recognized as deficient for more than 50 years, animal control services in Cocke County, Tennessee are within a week of vanishing entirely. Effective on August 1, 2022, the nonprofit organization founded in 1993 as Friends […]
Owner charged in Calgary pit bull death case was known to police
Civic fines could total $120,000; criminal charges may be pending CALGARY, Alberta, Canada––On July 20, 2022, the first day in ten that no one was reported dead from a new pit bull attack, Calgary residents Denis Ivan Bagarić, 33, and Talyn Lexie Calkins, of similar but unclear age, were jointly charged with 12 offenses […]
Cane Corso: A pit bull by any other name
Cane Corso history is not what the “dog literature” says OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Was Gladys, the star rescue dog who killed volunteer Pam Robb on February 17, 2022, really a Cane Corso and not, as ANIMALS 24-7 reported, a “supersized pit bull”? Or is “Cane Corso” really just a sanitized and gentrified name for a common […]
Warrants executed weeks & months after fatal Cocke County dog attacks
Fumbling response to Tony Ahrens & Amber Miller mauling deaths outrages many in Newport, Tennessee NEWPORT, Tennessee––One hundred nineteen days after the April 1, 2021 dog attack death of Tony Ahrens, 52, sixteen days after three dogs were seen standing over Amber Miller, 29, fatally mauled at the same location on July 12, 2021, […]
Chick sexing, cockfighting, drug abuse & dog attacks: the hidden link
Help coming from France & Germany NEWPORT, Tennessee; IRONTON, Ohio; PARIS, France––What do recent French and German edicts against crushing or gassing unwanted male chicks born at hen hatcheries have to do with cockfighting, corruption, drug addiction, fatal dog attacks, and the price of eggs in Appalachia? Not much, you say? Take a closer […]
Why were Amber Miller & Tony Ahrens killed by dogs in Newport, TN?
And why is the Cocke County Sheriff Office not sharing info with the public that is released promptly after almost every fatal dog attack? [Updated July 24, 2021.] NEWPORT, Tennessee––Why was Amber Miller, 29, alone on Jimtown Road near dead-end Carnation Way on the morning of July 12, 2021, five and a half miles […]