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• Pit bulls and kids: Scared or Perfectly Comfortable?

  For the first time since a law was enacted putting the responsibility for a dog's attack on its owner, a Texas couple has been convicted in the death of a 7-year-old child. They were sentenced to seven years, one for each year of life taken from their 7-year-old neighbor by their vicious pack of pit bulls. I know what you're thinking. She's gunning for those dogs. But where my heart aches for parents who've lost their child, I can't blame that all on a dog. And I wouldn't blame it all on a breed. Read More... Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:34 PM by JeanneSager with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: accidental death, dogs, pets, dog bites, danger, Jeanne Sager, pit bulls, banning pit bulls, leading cause of death

• Woman Tapes Dogs' Mouths, Gives Birth

  I am on record as not especially loving our family dog, especially post-baby: she smells, she vomits if she drinks water too fast or eats people food, which she steals from the table or the counter if we’re not looking, and she barks piteously when we leave the house. And after a particularly hair-raising escaping incident that had our deeply kind friends out at midnight and again at 5 am searching for her, finding friends to dog-sit is a little bit, um, challenging. But I’ve never considered resorting to this: a woman in Johnston, RI taped her two pit bull’s mouths shut while she checked into the hospital for two days to give birth to her son. Read More... Posted Oct 09 2008, 05:24 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: dogs, pets, dogs and babies, animal cruelty, bad ideas, pit bulls

• Woman Clones Her Pit Bull—Five Times

  While this story will hopefully never be remotely related to parenting human babies, this woman’s quotes are so priceless that I just had to share. Plus, she’s essentially paying to torture puppies, and she should get some backlash for it, even if it’s only of the indignant blogger variety. Losing a pet is awful. No one knows this better than I, who cried for days after my goldfish died. (Don’t even get me started on my dog.) So I feel for Bernann McKinney, who took the loss of her beloved pit bull Booger quite hard. Still, I can’t exactly condone her method of grieving. Read More... Posted Aug 06 2008, 07:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: dogs, pets, animal cruelty, cloning, booger, pit bulls, clone, commercial cloning, bernanna mckinney, suffering, losing a pet