Carlos Granda, a reporter with KABC-TV (ABC in Los Angeles, CA), called me yesterday. He said people have been writing to his station, complaining about seeing dogs in malls and stores. Would I care to comment, he asked? That’s like asking the home plate umpire if he would care to say whether the last pitch […]
On July 20, 2010, two pit bulls in Memphis killed 71-year-old William Parker. Then the dogs attacked two family members and two firemen who tried to save the old man. Just 48 hours later, a 2-year-old boy (name not released as of this writing) was killed by his parents’ three pit bulls in Concord, California. The […]
On July 20, 2010, two pit bulls killed 71-year-old Wiliam Parker of Memphis, Tennessee, and injured 4 other people. Sherry Wooten, 23, has been charged with negligent homicide and four counts of felony reckless endangerment for the four others injured by the dogs. (Read the story by The Commercial Appeal.) On July 22, 2010, Jacob Bisbee, […]
This year so far, the most common victim of a fatal dog attack is a child, and her killer is her parents’ pet dog. During the first 6 months of 2010, 11 canine homicide victims were young children. Of these, 9 were killed by the family dog. One was killed by dogs running at large, […]