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Detroit animal control & humane society dog attack prevention fails again

October 20, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

When a nine-year humane society president and a four-year animal control agency chief in the same city both have had more dog attack fatalities on their watch than anyone else in comparable positions ever,  85% by pit bulls,  what does that tell you? DETROIT, Michigan––Lovell Anderson,  4,  playing in his own fenced Detroit backyard under […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, USA Tagged With: Emma Hernandez, Lovell Anderson, Mark Kumpf, Matt Pepper, Merritt Clifton, Xavier Strickland

Is the new “Motown sound” the scream of a pit bull victim?

August 25, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Emma Hernandez,  9,  was the latest sacrifice to dangerous dogs             DETROIT,  Michigan––The “Motown sound” today,  sixty years after Detroit music entrepreneur Berry Gordy Jr. formed the Motown Record Corporation,  is all too often the bloodcurdling shriek of a child fighting a dog of notoriously dangerous breed for her life,  the wail of parents finding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Craig Sytsma, Emma Hernandez, JoAnn Watson, Kyle Holland, Merritt Clifton, Pierre Cleveland, Xavier Strickland

“Educate yourself”: pit bulls in schools run amok

December 16, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

More than 70 children injured & at least five killed in U.S. schools or on way to school since 2005             SEATTLE, Washington;  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio––Two pit bulls escaped from a nearby home,  ran into St. Therese Catholic Academy in Seattle on December 13,  2018,  bit several students  and reportedly dragged 8-year-old Doris Dickerson.              Three teachers pulled […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Angie Hands, Angie Nickerson, Ashley Triplett, Christopher Wilson, Doris Dickerson, Greg Wolfram, Logan Braatz, Merritt Clifton, Miracle Parham, Sabine M. Davidson, Viola Sheeler, Xavier Strickland

Why wasn’t California pit bull fatality sent to county grand jury?

April 5, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Mauling death of Tyler Trammell-Huston,  9,  was handled differently from similar cases in Virginia, Colorado,  & Michigan          ACCOMACK,  Virginia;  MARYVILLE,  California––Accomack County General District Court on March 20,  2016 arraigned Edna Lenae Parker,  38,  on two felony counts of owning a vicious dog and committing “a willful act or omission in the care,  control […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Alexandra Griffin-Heady, Edna Lenae Parker, Geneke Lyons, Kenneth Phillips, Merritt Clifton, Patrick McGrath, Tyler Trammell-Huston, Xavier Strickland

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