Six injured by pit bull in Montreal
Perhaps more awkward for both the Animal Farm Foundation and the Montreal SPCA, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was the August 19, 2018 injury of six people, including four children, by one rescued pit bull in two separate incidents.
The Animal Farm Foundation and the Montreal SPCA worked together to defeat former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre in November 2017, and then repeal restrictions on possession of pit bulls that Coderre introduced in 2016, after Christiane Vadnais, 55, was killed in her back yard by a neighbor’s pit bull.
Christiane Vadnais
Reported Tristan Péloquin of La Presse, citing police reports, Frances Richardson, 62, who was looking after four grandchildren in her home, “took possession of the pit bull the day before. The animal belonged to the friend of a friend, who said she had to get rid of her dog quickly, because she had just given birth. The pit bull was to be taken to the Montreal SPCA the next day for transfer to New Brunswick,” a frequent destination of pit bulls impounded in Montreal and other Quebec cities. . . ."
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” . . . (continued excerpt) . . .Allegedly stole GI Bill benefits
“According to the [Bradley Croft] indictment,” reported Guillermo Contreras of the San Antonio Express News, “in 2013, Croft [applied to] the Texas Veterans Commission to obtain certification to allow Universal K-9 to receive GI Bill educational benefit payments for providing dog handler training.
“In October 2015, Croft emailed several documents to the commission containing the names of four people who were purported to be instructors for Universal K-9 classes for which Croft was seeking approval to obtain GI Bill benefits. They are listed as victims 1-4 in the indictment.”
Said the indictment, “None of those individuals had granted Croft permission to use their names.”
Claimed a dead man as trainer
Nor were any of them “working as instructors at Universal K-9 in the classes described in the application,” the indictment said. “Victim 1 had died two years prior to the submission of the application for approval.”
“Based on the documents,” Contreras wrote, “the Texas Veterans Commission granted Universal K-9 approval for participating in the GI Bill program. Croft and others, who are not charged, then solicited veterans as students for the dog handler course, indicating that veterans could use their GI Bill benefits to pay for the course. Croft and the others would enroll veterans in the course and submit enrollment records to the VA for payment, knowing the approval of the training had been fraudulently obtained, the indictment said.
Bagged $1.26 million
“Between 2016 through the date of the indictment,” Contreras summarized, “Universal filed approximately 185 claims relating to the education of 132 veterans, totaling $1.26 million, the indictment said.”
According to court records, Contreras added, “Croft has a lengthy criminal history, which includes shooting at people and other violence, and a federal conviction in the late 1990s involving insurance fraud, for which he got five years of probation.”
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This pit isn’t interested in the postition:
“Were any dogs properly trained?”
You would think they had to have basic training, to at least pass as K9 regardless of the scamming and their effectiveness at their specific job, right? I am still curious if well trained pit bulls have snapped or attacked.
Freegards