On January 15, 2009, Brooklynn Grace Milburn, a 3-year-old girl from Fort Worth, Texas, was killed by a neighbor’s Rottweiler dog. She was playing in her back yard when she crawled through a hole in the fence. Her parents believed that the hole was too small for her to get through. (Read the article.) Two […]
Accepting his Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture, Mickey Rourke thanked a number of people and his dogs, including those which were living and those which were not. He is right to believe that his dogs contributed to his well being and success. The beneficial effect of good dogs on people has […]
Four-year-old Alex Angulo of Chicago, Illinois, was mauled to death by a Rottweiler on January 11, 2009. The dog belonged to his foster parents. The child was killed in his own back yard. There were three dogs present, two of them being Rottweilers. No adults were present. The full story of this particular boy is […]
Yesterday an ex-Marine stabbed a pit bull to death in Anaheim, California, after it attacked his wife and dogs. It had latched onto his wife’s hand, prompting the man to run to a neighbor’s house and grab a knife. There were wounds on his and his wife’s hands. Police confirmed that the man was within […]
On January 6, 2008, a five year old girl in Thomasville, Georgia, was mauled to death by her parent’s pit bulls while she was playing in her own back yard. Chyenne Peppers was playing in the yard of her home when the family’s three pit bulls attacked her. Her parents were home at the time, […]
Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia. TWO little sisters had no hope when they were savaged by a pack of bull mastiff dogs in a house. Neighbors broke down the door to find a three-year-old dead and her 16-month-old sister covered in blood as she tried to crawl away from the four baying dogs. (Read the […]
Beginning July 2006, the Dog Bite Law web site began summarizing, on a monthly basis, canine homicides in the USA. The focus of my interest as the author of Dog Bite Law has been the laws that will prevent violent dog attacks upon people. In particular, my research strongly suggests that repealing the English one-bite […]