A common, senseless mistake by animal control workers is to release dogs that have mauled people. These are dogs that have proven themselves and, often, their owners, of being unfit and untrustworthy. By releasing them back into the community, animal control workers act negligently and with conscious disregard for the safety of children and the […]
Today Michael Vick appears in a court and will probably receive a sentence reduction which will enable his release from prison next summer. From David Whitley, writing for the Orlando Sentinel: “It turns out the guy was even more of a scumbag than we imagined. He’d put family pets in the ring with fighting dogs […]
“Four-legged friends” Georgia, Handsome Dan, Curly and other pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation are getting a shot at fame as stars of a line of boutique red wines. The Vicktory Dogs Wine Collection features colorful portraits of 22 dogs confiscated from Vick’s kennels that now live at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in […]
The owner of two pit bulls that viciously mauled a petite 71-year-old woman pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday. Travis D. Cunningham, 36, has been charged with a felony count of possessing a dangerous dog. He could serve up to 13 years in prison if convicted as charged. Cunningham is an ex-convict whom prosecutors […]
Slade Phillips, 7, was mauled in a pet store in Vernon, British Columbia. The 7-year-old handed a bone to the store-owner’s boxer. “Slade picked up a bone to give it to the dog and the dog jumped up and bit half his face,” said the boy’s mother, Julie Carloff. (Click here to read the article.) […]
Linzy Earles, 17, of Tulsa Oklahoma, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the July 28, 2008, death of her 2-month-old baby, Zane Earles. The boy “was left unattended in an infant swing on the opposite side of the house for approximately two hours,” according to a police affidavit. As his mother napped, […]
On October 31, 2008, 62-year-old Chester R. Jordan of Muncie, Indiana, was killed by three of his own pitbulls, inside his residence. Indiana imposes strict liability on not only the owner, but also the possessor, keeper or harborer of the dog, but they are strictly liable only if the victim is a mail deliverer or […]