Ashley Warren, whose American XL Bullies killed Esther Martin. (Beth Clifton collage)
Newly reported canine attack deaths floor in Florida, Texas, & Louisiana
CHIEFLAND, Florida; LONGVIEW, Texas; JAYWICK, England––Pit bulls and different dogs misplaced little time in rendering two recent ANIMALS 24-7 headlines out of date, by rending aside much more victims than have been recognized to have been mauled to demise when the articles have been posted.
On February 2, 2024, for example, ANIMALS 24-7 bannered Pit bulls kill 4 in final two days of January 2024.
WCJB of Gainesville, Florida, the very subsequent morning reported that, “A woman was killed and a man is in the hospital after their dog attacked them in Chiefland this week,” leading to a fifth January 2024 canine attack demise.
This is a Catahoula leopard dogs. Google “Chiefland Catahoula” and you’ll in all probability see Catahoula/pit bull mixes, with blockier heads & wider muzzles.
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“Catahoula leopard dogs” or Catahoula/pit mixes?
“Levy County Sheriff’s deputies tell TV20,” the WCJB report continued, “that the couple had bred Catahoula leopard dogs for more than 25 years when one turned on them on the night of January 29, 2024.”
The victims have but to recognized by both regulation enforcement or native media.
While a Catahoula shouldn’t be a pit bull, there are not less than two longtime breeders of Catahoula/pit bull crosses in Chiefland.
Googling “Chiefland Catahoula” brings up primarily these two breeders and their Catahoula/pit bull mixes.
(Beth Clifton collage)
Man killed, canine proprietor busted, in Longview, Texas
A sixth canine attack fatality, additionally as but formally unidentified, could have been killed earlier than January 2024 ended, however was not found till the early hours of February.
In Longview, Texas, reported Jordan Green of the Longview News Journal, “Police responded about 3 a.m. to a call about a bicycle in the road. Nearby, officers found the body of a 46-year-old man with wounds consistent with those of a dog bite.”
Later within the day, Green continued, “Animal control officers confiscated multiple dogs from a home in the area, police said,” and “arrested Martin Gilbert Rodriguez, 56, on 28 charges of ‘animal at large,’” plus “charges of failing to have an animal vaccinated and one charge of illegally keeping an animal in a parked or standing vehicle.”
ANIMALS 24-7 expects to report additional about each the Chiefland and the Longview fatalities when extra data turns into available.
D’Angelo Manning. (Facebook photograph)
17-month-old was canine attack sufferer in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Earlier, ANIMALS 24-7 delayed publishing a “final” whole of U.S. canine attack deaths in 2023 till January 13, 2024, to attempt to keep away from lacking any.
But the Maples Center for Forensic Testing on the University of Florida in Gainesville didn’t notify the sheriff’s workplace in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, till January 22, 2024 that DNA testing had established {that a} home canine, and never another animal, similar to coyote, bobcat, or feral pig, was answerable for the demise of De’Angelo Manning.
“The 17-month-old was found dead on September 18, 2023 in a rural area of Claiborne Parish hours after he and a 4-year-old child were reported missing,” recounted KTBS-TV of Shreveport, Louisiana. “The oldest child was found about a half-mile from the home where he was staying. He had minor scratches.”
De’Angelo Manning has now been added to the roster posted with Record 72 canine attack deaths in 2023 included additionally file 57 by pit bull, and the article has been up to date.
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American Bully XL ban fails to avoid wasting grandmother from breeder
ANIMALS 24-7 did get one headline proper, although: American Bully XL pit bull assaults proceed as U.Ok. & Scotland bans loom, posted on January 27, 2024.
Since December 31, 2023, house owners of American Bully XL pit bulls have been required to have them microchipped, sterilized, and muzzled and saved on a lead in public.
ANIMALS 24-7 warned, nevertheless, that greater than 30,000 American Bully XL house owners in England and Wales have reportedly obtained permits to proceed to maintain them––which ensures that not less than 30,000 supersized and nominally banned pit bulls will proceed to have the chance to wreak havoc.
The American Bully XL ban in England and Wales took full impact, after a month-long grace interval, on February 1, 2024.
Esther Martin, 69, of Woodford Green, London, on February 3, 2024 turned the primary post-ban human fatality inflicted by American Bully XL pit bulls, whereas visiting her 11-year-old grandson in Jaywick, a depressed former seaside resort close to Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
Esther Martin. (Facebook photograph)
“My mum had raised concerns”
Esther Martin’s daughter Sonia Martin, 47, instructed The Daily Mail and BBC News that “My mum had raised concerns to the owner,” Ashley Warren, 39, who in a tv interview denied figuring out American Bully XL pit bulls are harmful, “about them being dangerous and quite aggressive.”
Warren, accomplice of sufferer Esther Martin’s late daughter, Clare Louise Hayes, who reportedly died in 2022, was recognized by The Daily Mail as “a tattooed East London wannabe rapper who goes by the name Wyless Man.”
Warren “posted a Facebook ad selling XL Bully puppies for £500 in November 2023,” The Daily Mail stated.
Said Sonia Martin, “They were XL Bullies. There were eight of them in the house, six puppies and two adults. None of them neutered, not registered. The owner’s words were ‘no one is going to tell me what to do with my own f*****g dogs.’”
School bus aide Viola Sheeler in December 2018 beat off a pit bull with a brush to avoid wasting two kids. (See “Educate yourself”: pit bulls in faculties run amok.) (Beth Clifton collage)
“Put a broom in among them”
Sonia Martin stated she believed the puppies had been combating, and that her mom had been instructed by the Ashley Warren earlier to “put a broom in among them, to distract them.”
Said Sonia Martin, “That’s when she was attacked.”
Ashley Martin in his tv interview tearfully confirmed the main points.
The 11-year-old grandson of sufferer Esther Martin ran out of the home screaming, bringing spade-wielding neighbors to aim a rescue.
Police then reportedly shot not less than the 2 grownup XL Bullies on the scene.
Warren was arrested on suspicion of violating the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, as amended so as to add the American Bully XL ban, He was launched on conditional police bail till a March 5, 2024 inquest.
(Beth Clifton collage)
Banned breeds
“Following a concerning rise in attacks and fatalities caused by XL Bully dogs,” the United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs introduced on October 31, 2023, “the government has added this breed to the list of dogs banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.”
The “XL Bully” pit bull variant, answerable for not less than eight deaths within the United Kingdom in 2022 and 2023, plus not less than 60 disfiguring accidents to people, joined 4 different pit bull variants on the banned listing.
The others are the American Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasiliero. All are thought-about “foreign breeds” within the United Kingdom.
“Scotland has announced it will attempt to put a similar ban in place by July 31, 2024, while Northern Ireland is also set to make a decision on the breed shortly,” BBC News reported.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walking pit bulls. The XL Bully (left) and the English Staffordshire (proper) are actually each pit bulls.
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“Staffordshires” nonetheless have free cross to kill
Apart from the continued danger posed by each American Bully XL granted an exemption from the bans, there stays the chance that each American Bully XL in both nation would possibly magically metamorphize right into a “Staffordshire terrier.”
This is how pit bulls endured within the United Kingdom after the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 nominally banned pit bulls, however exempted Staffordshire terriers, together with pit bulls below another title however American Pit Bull Terrier.
While pit bulls and dogfighting have endured within the United Kingdom not less than since Elizabethan occasions, the “Staffordshire” breed title originated with American Pit Bull Terrier combating canine breeder John P. Colby, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Colby produced his first combating canine litter in 1888, dubbed them “Staffordshire terriers,” and almost instantly started promoting a few of his dogs to British dogfighters.
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NewspaperArchive.com, together with British media since 1607, reveals no use of the time period “Staffordshire” to explain a canine breed earlier than Colby.
Altogether, 87 dogs are actually recognized to have participated in killing a person regardless of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, together with 13 of the now technically prohibited American Bully XL pit bull variant and 20 so-called “Staffordshire terriers.”
