In Britain, police will be given new powers to tackle the increased use of dogs as offensive weapons in gang rivalry. There is a flourishing black market trade in pit bulls and other dogs that were banned under an Act of Parliament 18 years ago. Breeders either ignore the ban or attempt to get around […]
Bruce Evans shot and killed his wife’s and daughter’s pit bulls on February 16, 2009, at his home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The dogs were fighting each other and had bitten the wife and the daughter too. No charges are pending. (Read the article.) It is difficult to understand the purpose of owning dogs […]
At the end of January, there were two more deaths that I have not written about until now: On January 19, 2009, an 8-year-old girl Pennslyvania, Brianna Nicole Shanor, was mauled to death inside her uncle’s camper, where he kept a chained-up Rottweiler-mix. Pennsylvania is a strict liability state. The following factors on the Dog […]
Bond was set at $2500 Tuesday for the owner of two pit bulls that mauled his neighbor so badly she lost part of one leg. Lee Carroll, 31, of Marion County, Indiana, was arrested Tuesday morning on two counts of failing to restrain his dog causing serious bodily injury and two counts of harboring a […]
Thirty-six-year-old Travis Dean Cunningham, whose two pit bulls mauled a 71-year-old woman near SeaTac, Washington, home last September, has pleaded guilty to possession of a dangerous dog. He also pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm. Prosecutors are recommending an 11-year prison term when he is sentenced March 13 in Seattle.
Dog owner Diane Cockrell was ordered to serve 43 months to 15 years for the Sept. 13, 2007, deaths of Edward Gierlach, 91, and Cheryl Harper, 56. She began serving her sentence on Jan. 2, 2009. This week, it was announced that the families of the victims had settled their civil claims for wrongful death. […]
This week, police responded to the screams of a pit bull owner from inside his home. Officers found him on the ground, his pit bull clamped onto his arm. When the dog was Tasered, it simply ran to another part of the house, but was captured. The 47-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition. He […]
Bentley Collins of Dillon, South Carolina, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of keeping unconfined dangerous animals in connection with the death of Matthew Davis in November 2006. The dogs involved were euthanized about a week after Davis’ death. Collins was ordered to not obtain other dogs. He defied the order. Today, […]
Bentley Collins of Dillon, South Carolina, has been found guilty of one count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of keeping unconfined dangerous animals in connection with the death of Matthew Davis. (Read the article.) Even after his six pit bulls mauled the child to death — even during the trial itself — this defendant […]