Douglas Anthony Cooper

Revised: September 27, 2014; 03:40 GMT
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Revised: October 7, 2014; 18:14 GMT

The problem in reading The academic impostor behind the pit bull hysteria, by Douglas Anthony Cooper, is whether or not Mr Cooper sincerely believes what he has written. The alternative is to consider the article as part of his continual self-promotion campaign.

Mr Cooper is one of a handful of pit bull advocates who, once they begin to write are unable to stop. Cooper shares this compulsion with the two bloggers he cites favorably in his article, Joshua Liddy and Brent Toellner; if they can't convince their readers they will bore us into submission. It sometimes appears that these three men are so enamored of their own writing that they are each their own best audience.

Mr Cooper's two-and-a-half-thousand-word article has a simple goal: to defame Merritt Clifton and thereby diminish Clifton's dog attack statistics collected over the last 32 years. Cooper's failure is apparent in his very first sentence:

The most influential advocate for the eradication of pit bulls is an academic fraud.

Mr Cooper's first sentence includes a glaring falsehood: Clifton has never called for the eradication of pit bulls. Simple fact checking would prove it.

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On July 12, 2014, Joshua Liddy, assisted by his wing gunners Jeff Theman and Kim Wolf,¹ ambushed Merritt Clifton at the Animal Rights National Conference in Los Angeles. Liddy beleaguered Clifton for 40 minutes, filming the attack without permission and without prior consent for an interview. Liddy's attack occurred after the morning events as the participants (including Clifton) were on the way to lunch. Clifton may not have been aware that he was being accosted by people who wanted to damage him. Clifton managed himself with grace and forbearance under trying circumstances.

The point that Mr Cooper has gone to such lengths to attempt to prove (that Clifton is an academic fraud) is based on an offhand comment Clifton uttered while under attack. Cooper evidently considers Liddy's tactics acceptable and considers Liddy a reputable source.²

Twenty-three seconds into the ambush Kim Wolfe asks Clifton why his work has not been published in peer-reviewed publications; Clifton responds that he has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Both Liddy and Cooper believe this is the Gotcha! moment and pounce on Clifton's answer, believing that Clifton overstated his publishing credentials.

Liddy transcribes the relevant statement as Merritt said that he has “more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.” Cooper alters Liddy's transcription to

"you will see him pronounce: "I have more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications."

Neither of these are correct. Clifton says "I've been included in more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications."

Talking about the number of Clifton's publications is similar to pondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin: it proves nothing and is a waste of time. When it comes to pit bulls and dog attacks, it's all about the numbers. For what it's worth, Mr Cooper's vaunted fact-checking failed to discover that Clifton's count is accurate.³

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Mr Cooper's goal is to discredit Clifton and his data, but it's clear that his fury was ignited by Barbara Kay's review of Galunker, recently published in Clifton's Animals 24-7. It is clear that Cooper will brook no criticism. He claims that Kay's review will contribute to the mass hysteria: bigotry that results in the unnecessary death, yearly, of some million or so innocent creatures. This remarkable charge reflects just how poorly Cooper understands the current euthanasia and sheltering problems in America.⁴

Mr Cooper tries his best to undermine Clifton's data, but he also takes the time to ridicule those who refer to Clifton's data, most noticeably Ms Kay. Moreover, Mr Cooper neglects to mention the 21 fatal pit bull attacks on humans this year. Mr Cooper gives incomplete, misleading information about Clifton's departure from Animal's Agenda. Mr Cooper withholds vital information from his readers when it suits his purposes.

What is most compelling about Cooper's article are not his arguments, which are subsumed by anger, but the troubled character that emerges from his writing. The voice is at times enraged, arrogant, and disdainful. Mr Cooper's world view is Manichean: all things are either good or evil. Pit bulls are peaceful, playful Galunkers, while those who oppose his own views are worthy only of contempt.


Afterward: I'm Too Sexy

Some readers may experience a strange phenomenon, as we did, when reading Cooper's The Academic Impostor Behind the Pit Bull Hysteria. The mind struggles to withstand the free-floating anger and, in an effort to safely disassociate from the pain, provides an internal soundtrack for relief.

For some readers I'm Too Sexy is the soundtrack playing in the background, which effectively blocks the prevailing anger.

I'm Too Sexy is famous for having made several "worst song" lists, as well as several "best worst song" lists. The Fairbass brothers have made a number of videos to accompany the song; the best of the lot, in this viewer's opinion, is this one.

Richard Fairbass is not a great singer; his voice cracks at inopportune moments, as when changing from one note to the next. But I'm Too Sexy is fall-down funny and the Fairbass brothers are having fun. The Fairbass brothers are effortlessly cool, apparently without caring whether or not they're cool.

Richard and Fred Fairbrass of the group Right Said Fred

Cooper, on the other hand, is humorless; he may believe he's the coolest, hippest dude around but the strain is apparent.

The real Douglas Anthony Cooper ?

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Footnotes:
¹   All three are founders of pit bull advocacy organizations. Liddy is the founder of Swaylove; Wolf is the founder of Beyond Breed; and Theman is a "documentary film maker" who made the pit bull advocacy film Guilty 'Til Proven Innocent.
²   Image of Josh Liddy embedded from his Facebook page.

Post by SwayLove.org.

³   "But Cooper’s accusation is based on blatant disregard for Clifton's more than 100 contributions over the past 20 years to the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases,. . . " (See Pit bull hysteria is based on fact, by Barbara Kay in The Huffington Post)
⁴   Mr Cooper is a latecomer to the horrors of mass euthanasia, and is apparently concerned ONLY with the euthanasia of pit bulls. Alexandra Semyonova and Merritt Clifton, as well as others, have been alerting the humane community of the needless slaughter of surplus pit bulls for years. A list of articles on the euthanasia and sheltering crises accompanies this post.

Definitions:
SRUV uses the definition of "pit bull" as found in the Omaha Municipal Code Section 6-163. As pit bulls are increasingly crossed with exotic mastiffs, Catahoula Leopard Dogs and other breeds, the vernacular definition of "pit bull" should be made even more inclusive.

Sources cited by news media sometimes refer to "Animal Advocates" or sometimes "Experts." In many cases these words are used to refer to single-purpose pit bull advocates who have never advocated for any other breeds or species of animals. Media would be more accurate to refer to these pit bull advocates as advocates of fighting breeds.

Similarly, in many cases pit bull advocates refer to themselves as "dog lovers" or "canine advocates" and media often accepts this usage. The majority of these pit bull advocates are single-purpose advocates of fighting breeds.

Statistics:
Statistics quoted on SRUV are from the nation's authoritative source for current dog attack statistics, the 30+ year, continuously updated Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada.
View or download the current PDF

2014 Year-end report of dog attacks
   Animals 24-7; January 3, 2015
32 years of logging fatal & disfiguring dog attacks
   Animals 24-7; September 27, 2014
How many other animals did pit bulls kill in 2014?
   Animals 24-7; January 27, 2015

This page may also include information from Dogsbite &Fatal Pit Bull Attacks.

Google News: Today's pit bull attacks

2014 Dog Bite Related Fatalities on Daxton's Friends
Index of canine fatalities on Daxton's Friends

Resources:
Index: Resources on Euthanasia, Sheltering, and No-kill.

'Pit bull hysteria' is based on fact
   Barbara Kay; Huffington Post,  September 29, 2014
Galunker, by Douglas Anthony Cooper, reviewed by Barbara Kay
   Animals 24-7; July 23, 2014
Kickstarter: Galunker, by D.A. Cooper

Co-occurrence of potentially preventable factors in 256 dog bite-related fatalities in the United States (2000-2009), J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2013 Dec 15;243(12):1726-36. doi: 10.2460/javma.243.12.1726.

By D.A Cooper:
The Academic Impostor Behind the Pit Bull Hysteria
   Huffington Post, September 24, 2014
Eradicate pit bulls? Not Labrador Retrievers?
   Huffington Post, June 28, 2014
Ignorance kills one million pit bulls per year
   Huffington Post, June 25, 2014
A children's book about a pit bull?
  Huffington Post, June 5, 2014
Children need pit bulls (part two): Galunker, a picture book
  Huffington Post, May 29, 2014
Children need pit bulls; a picture book
  Huffington Post, May 28, 2014
Ken Foster's Dog Vanished on Christmas Eve. He Just Found Her. Perhaps We Should Kill Her?
  Huffington Post, January 6, 2014









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John Homans

What’s a Dog For? The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy and Politics of Man’s Best Friend
by John Homans
Penguin USA,  375 Hudson St.,  New York, NY 10014),  2012.
272 pages,  hardcover.  $16.00.

The following excerpt is from an essay-review by Barbara Kay, published by Animals 24-7 on August 30, 2014

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Throughout his previous fourteen chapters, discussing dog matters in general, Homans has exuberantly scattered like rose petals down a wedding aisle the supportive names and theories of peer-reviewed animal-studies experts on evolution, cognition, behavior and animal-human relations: Charles Darwin, James Serpell, Konrad Lorenz, Alexandra Horowitz, Marc Bekoff, John Bradshaw, John Paul Scott and John L. Fuller (who wrote “the bible of canine science” proving the heritability of breed traits), Brian Hare, Dmitri Belyaev (whose Siberian fox experiments demonstrated that changing function results in changing form), Ray Coppinger, Clive Wynne, C. Lloyd Morgan, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Jane Goodall.

In the pages devoted to the pit bull controversy, though, all appeal to science-based authority skids to an abrupt halt. Homans makes many declarations of faith regarding the nature of the pit bull, but adduces as evidence for them no more than a single supportive voice from the world of canine studies – and that voice one that is not only based in emotion rather than science, but is not, upon examination, even supportive of Homans’s views.

Read the full review by Barbara Kay in Animals 24-7



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Related Post:
Canine Cognition; SRUV, January 4, 2014



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Collective Wrath: Pt 1

Revised: September 10, 2014; 17:25 GMT
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Revised: September 23, 2014; 20:05 GMT

An extraordinary dialogue was published in the pages of the Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) between June 22nd and August 13th, 2014. The exchange consisted of two letters written by Dr Ellicott McConnell, to which Susan Sarubin responded. The dialogue ended with a bitter attack by Ms Sarubin on one of animal welfare's most respected figures.

Collective Wrath Part 1 responds to Ms Sarubin's attack on Merritt Clifton; Part 2 responds to two charges of a more general nature.

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1. Susan Sarubin: The statistics Dr. McConnell refers to are compiled by Merritt Clifton (Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S and Canada, 1982 – 2013, updated yearly)

"Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings" is updated as often as the attacks occur, daily if necessary. The most recent report is available at the link below. (Annual summaries are also available.)

2. Susan Sarubin: . . .[it] is more of a flawed, incomplete tally of severe dog bites than a study, relying entirely on news media, a particularly unreliable source of information about dog attacks.

The Clifton report is multi-sourced from police reports, animal control reports, witness and victim accounts, hospital reports, and Social Security death records, among other sources.

3. Susan Sarubin: If one takes the time to read the actual “study” and analysis by Clifton, it is fraught with dozens of additional flaws in methodology and interpretation of data.

Ms Sarubin's unsupported claim of flawed methodology is often repeated but never explained. If Ms Sarubin has taken the time to read the report perhaps she would kindly inform us of the dozens of additional flaws with which the report is fraught.

4. Susan Sarubin: . . . There is a reason Mr. Clifton’s “study” is self-published . . . .

Clifton began compiling data as a cub reporter for the Sherbrooke Record in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1979. He initially investigated exotic animal traffic, then expanded his investigations to include fatal and disfiguring attacks by exotic pets including wolf hybrids. A column for dog attacks was later included to provide a standard for comparison of relative risk. Later he became the lead investigative journalist for the venerable Animals Agenda, where he continued to collect and refine his data. Clifton eventually became a founding partner of Animal People and in early 2014 founded Animals 24-7. Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings appeared one time in its entirety in either publication (in Animal People in the early 1990s); otherwise the report is available by mail or from other sources and excerpts are widely cited by major media. In recent weeks Animals 24-7 has reported on subjects as disparate as bear bile farms in China, wildebeast migration routes in the Serengeti, and livestock slaughter in Denmark. The attempt to discredit Clifton's data and the publications he helped found and for which he writes is a calculated deception.

5. Susan Sarubin: The most recent research on dog bite-related fatalities in the United States was published in December 2013, in the Journal of the American Veterinary Association.¹ Results show that breed is specifically found not to be a factor in the likelihood of a fatal dog bite.

Ms Sarubin claims that the JAVMA paper,² is the "most recent research." The paper in question refers to a limited sample of dog attacks gathered by Karen Delise³ over a period of ten years and is focused on the factors contributing to those specific attacks. It does not pretend to be a statistical analysis of dog attacks and is neither comparable to nor relevant to a more thorough, independent, and unbiased database like Clifton's.

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It is an article of faith among pit bull advocates that Clifton's data is wrong. An entire genre of the advocacy movement has developed based not on evaluating the data but on character assassination. Thousands of advocates believe that the way to save pit bulls is to savage Merritt Clifton.

The campaign to diminish the impact of Clifton's data reached its nadir this summer when Joshua Liddy ambushed Clifton at the Animal Rights 2014 National Conference in Los Angeles on July 12th, 2014. Liddy, assisted by his wing gunners Jeff Theman and Kim Wolf,⁴ beleaguered Clifton for 40 minutes, then posted the video to YouTube. Wolf achieved the impossible by appearing both patronizing and obsequious at the same time, while Liddy pestered Clifton interminably for a face-to-face interview. Liddy proudly posted a minute-by-minute deconstruction of the ambush to his web site, without realizing that he had shamed himself irrevocably.⁵

Many pit bull advocates are not, in conventional terms, animal welfare advocates; they are single-purpose pit bull advocates indifferent to other animal welfare issues. Yet many of them make it their business to vent their collective wrath on a man who advocates for all animals, and whose data underscores the failure of the humane community to confront the problem of pit bull attacks.



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See also: Collective Wrath: Part 2


Notes:
¹  There is no publication by this title. Ms Sarubin incorrectly refers to JAVMA, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
²  Co-occurrence of potentially preventable factors in 256 dog bite-related fatalities in the United States (2000-2009), J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2013 Dec 15;243(12):1726-36. doi: 10.2460/javma.243.12.1726.
³  Ms Delise founded the National Canine Research Council, the country's premier pit bull advocacy organization, and later sold it to Jane Berkey, the nation's most influential deep-pocket pit bull benefactor. Ms Delise's co-authors are also associated with pit bull advocacy organizations.
   Ms Delise has somehow found an academic who was willing to sponsor her paper and give it the imprimatur of academic respectability. Dr. Gary Patronek, to his lasting shame, has signed on as lead author of a paper which is co-authored by a group of non-academic pit bull advocates. To represent this paper as scholarly research is grossly misleading.
⁴  All three are founders of pit bull advocacy organizations. Liddy is the founder of Swaylove; Wolf is the founder of Beyond Breed; and Theman is a "documentary film maker" who makes pit bull advocacy movies.
⁵  Commenter Gabriel Barros: LOL, idiots trying to argue with Meritt Clifton about genetics.  They are too ignorant to know they got educated.



Sources:

Don't confuse me with the facts
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; August 13, 2014
   by Susan Sarubin

Temperament vs. Teachings
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; July 27, 2014
   by Dr. Ellicot McConnell

Prejudice against pit bulls unfounded
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; July 1, 2014
   by Susan Sarubin

Blame the owner?
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; June 22, 2014
   by Dr. Ellicot McConnell

Taxpayers should only fund animal control
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; June 3, 2014
   by Dr. Ellicot McConnell



Statistics:
Statistics quoted on SRUV are from the nation's only authoritative source for current dog attack statistics, the 30+ year, continuously updated Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada.
View or download the current PDF

This page may also include information from Dogsbite and Fatal Pit Bull Attacks.




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Collective Wrath: Pt 2

Revised: September 11, 2014; 16:13 GMT
Revised: September 12, 2014; 16:47 GMT

An extraordinary dialogue was published in the pages of the Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) between June 22nd and August 13th, 2014. The exchange consisted of two letters written by Dr Ellicott McConnell, to which Susan Sarubin responded. The dialogue ended with a bitter attack by Ms Sarubin on one of animal welfare's most respected figures.

Collective Wrath Part 1 responds to Ms Sarubin's attack on Merritt Clifton; Part 2 responds to two charges of a more general nature.

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6. Susan Sarubin: In a popular Internet test, “Pick the Pit,” the participants are asked to identify the photograph of a pit bull among 25 purebred and mixed breed dogs.

The numerous "Pick the Pit" and "Find the Pit Bull" tests available on the web would be laughable but for the fact they are sometimes taken seriously by gullible people. These internet games are intended to throw uncertainty on pit bull identification. In response SRUV has developed a "Find the Pit Bull" test which resolves pit bull identification.⁷

7. Susan Sarubin: Breed-specific legislation is nearly impossible to enforce. There is also a cost to enforcement to be assessed to the taxpayers, as well as underfunded animal control departments and local shelters bearing the burden of housing, and likely euthanizing, many family dogs, most of which present no bite risk.

That Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) is ineffective and expensive is one of the greatest canards of the pit bull advocacy campaigns. Breed specific legislation is effective in every city where good legislation is enacted and enforced.

Pit bull advocates conveniently overlook the costs of allowing (and even encouraging) unregulated backyard breeding of pit bulls. The cost of euthanizing surplus pit bulls in 2013 exceeded $2.3 million dollars.⁸

The cost of BSL is minimal when compared to the costs of Life-Flight evacuations of pit bull victims, with costs beginning at $10,000 and ranging up to $50.000. The  costs of police and animal control incurred during hundreds of pit bull attacks are ignored by BSL advocates.

Advocates studiously avoid mention of the enormous medical costs, which often soar to the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and are borne primarily by the victims.

Ms Sarubin has failed to check the statistics at Denver, Aurora, Miami/Dade, Sioux City, and hundreds of other cities with BSL, all of which find that BSL in their cities is ethical and effective.

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Dr McConnell was correct: Unless one accepts a wildly unlikely level of coincidence, pit bulls are disproportionally involved in severe attacks on humans. As long as private ownership is permitted these attacks will continue.

Ms Sarubin owes both distinguished men, Dr McConnell and Mr Clifton, apologies for her harsh and unwarranted attack.


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See also: Collective Wrath: Part 1


Statistics:
Statistics quoted on SRUV are from the nation's only authoritative source for current dog attack statistics, the 30+ year, continuously updated Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada.
View or download the current PDF

This page may also include information from Dogsbite and Fatal Pit Bull Attacks.



Notes:
⁷  See Find the Pit Bull
⁸  Based on a 2007 estimate of euthanasia costs from American Humane, multiplied by one million surplus pit bulls euthanized each year.


Sources:

Don't confuse me with the facts
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; August 13, 2014
   by Susan Sarubin

Temperament vs. Teachings
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; July 27, 2014
   by Dr. Ellicot McConnell

Prejudice against pit bulls unfounded
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; July 1, 2014
   by Susan Sarubin

Blame the owner?
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; June 22, 2014
   by Dr. Ellicot McConnell

Taxpayers should only fund animal control
   Star-Democrat; Easton, MD; June 3, 2014
   by Dr. Ellicot McConnell







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Charges pending: III

The following list includes only a few of the more notable recent legal cases involving pit bull attacks.

Revised: September 7, 2014; 19:33 GMT

September 2, 2014
Unruly dog bites four people, dies after struggle

There were a total of four unlicensed dogs at the residence, two male pit bulls and two female pit bulls, Fromelt said. Charges are pending for unlicensed pets and violation of the three-dog limit.

August 28, 2014
Owners cited after 8-year old maimed

Dawn Wright and Steven Vujasinovich

August 25, 2014
Fatal attack conviction reinstated by SC Supreme Court

August 22, 2014
Father, girlfriend charged in boy's mauling death

On Friday Javon’s father, 30-year old Javon Dade, and his father’s girlfriend, 26-year old Alessandra Carrasco, were charged with child neglect in the boy’s death.

Javon Dade and Alessandra Carrasco

August 22, 2014
Pit bull owner charged, faces $10K fine

August 19, 2014
Charges authorized against 2 men in dog attack

August 14, 2014

Miami-Dade fines father of boy, 4, killed by dogs; photos of dogs released

Javon Dade Sr. was only cited for failure to vaccinate against rabies for three of the dogs, and for failure to license two of the dogs. There is no duty to license a pit bull since it is against the law to own one.

Javon Dade, Jr. 4-yo; d. August 13, 2014

August 12, 2014
Prosecutor releases list of 'Deadbeat' dog owners

August 11, 2014
St. Charles County toddler attacked by family dog has died, officials say
Police said Monday that their investigation has concluded, and no criminal charges are expected.

August 11, 2014

Police Charge Dog Owner after his Unvaccinated Pit Bulls Bite3 People

August 6, 2014
Bay City man charged with having vicious dog rejects plea offer, heading to trial

August 5, 2014
Police officer sues pit bull owners, their landlord in attack

August 1, 2014
Couple arraigned on murder charge after dogs kill jogger

It was at least the third time dogs owned by the couple attacked people on the road, according to reports. The pair face up to life in prison if convicted. They are also charged with harboring a dangerous animal causing death, a 15-year felony.

Craig Sytsma, d. July 23, 2014

Julty 29, 2014

No charges in death of Riverview boy after pit bull attack

In a letter written Monday to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, State Attorney Mark A. Ober says evidence in the case does not indicate the family of Logan Sheppard is culpably negligent in his death.

Logan Shepard, d. July 19, 2014

July 22, 2014
Family of boy mauled by dogs plans to sue city

July 18, 2014
Man charged after pit bull attacks 7-year-old child
Under state law, if a dog that previously has bitten a person or domestic animal without provocation subsequently bites another person, the owner can be charged with a crime.

July 16, 2014
Pit bulls attack Muskogee man
He was laying face down so I flipped him over and all his face all over here was over here. , ,  Cpl Mahon said they anticipate filing criminal charges including no proof of rabies vaccinations, harboring a vicious dog and allowing an animal to run loose.

July 11, 2014
Charges in fatal pit bull attack still possible
The investigation into the March 24th pit bull attack that left a 4-year-old dead is still not complete because Houma Police have not yet interviewed the dog’s owners.

Mia DeRouen; d. April 1, 2014

July 9, 2014
Plea rejected in case where pit bull attacked and killed family's dachshund on scooter
Englewood officials said the owners offered a plea of no-contest, but it was denied by the city attorney. "The city attorney made it clear to the owners of the dog; the City of Englewood would only accept a guilty plea," officials said.

July 8, 2014
Girl, 7, hospitalized after pit bull attack
The girl suffered injuries including cuts to her face and was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center. . . . The owner was not cited at the time the dog was impounded.

July 7, 2014
Should pit bull ban be reinstated?
Smith pleaded not guilty June 27 to charges of not properly confining a dangerous dog. If found guilty of the second-degree misdemeanor, she could be fined $750 and sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Daphne Smith

July 4, 2014
Police shoot, kill two pit bulls after attack on 4-yo
4-year-old Harmony Halyer was mauled by two pit bulls while staying with a family friend. The little girl’s father said she was put in a medically induced coma, but is expected to pull through.  No charges have been filed so far, but the investigation is ongoing.

July 4, 2014; Cornwall PA
Pit bull attack leaves 82 yo Palmyra man with injuries

July 3, 2014; Goldsboro NC
Owner charged in pit bull attack on 71-yo woman

July 1, 2014; Houston TX
Two charged in deadly Houston pit bull attack

June 11, 2014; Canyon Lake, TX
Two arrested in fatal dog attack
Charged are Rachelle Kay Lucas and Peter Lucas, in a June 4 indictment accused of allowing their pit bulls to roam free and cause the death of Betty Clark. Grand jurors found enough evidence existed to try the couple on a charge of attack by dog resulting in death.

Peter Lucas, 49, and Rachelle Kay Lucas, 47

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Related Posts:
Charges Pending        (May 26, 2013)
Charges Pending II    (June 20, 2014)
Charges Pending III   (Sept 02, 2014)
Charges Pending IV   (March 01 2015)
Charges Pending V     (Forthcoming )

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