Add Aryson Lee Page & Barbara Brewington to 2025 record pit bull death toll

Animals 24/7 ^ | December 3rd, 2025 | Merritt Clifton

[Norski]

CLINTON, North Carolina; DUFUR, Oregon––

"Pit bull rescuer and longtime Village Dental Clinic dental assistant Barbara Hunter Brewington, 38, of Bonnetville, North Carolina, on November 23, 2025 became simultaneously the 75th person killed by dogs in the U.S. during 2025, tying the record 2024 toll, and the 58th U.S. pit bull fatality, breaking the 2023 U.S. record for deaths by pit bull..."

" . . .As Kabir also mentioned, Brewington’s death was “the second fatal dog attack reported over five days in North Carolina,” following the unwitnessed November 18, 2025 pack attack death of Michael Bodenheimer outside his home in Thomasville..."...

" . . .Meanwhile in Ohio In Ohio, meanwhile, state law from 1987 until 2012 defined pit bulls as “inherently vicious,” therefore requiring pit bull owners to keep their pit bulls behind secure fences, muzzled in public, and insured against liability.

The Ohio law withstood several court challenges, but was undone by the combined efforts of Toledo Blade publisher John Robinson Block, the Best Friends Animal Society, the pit bull advocacy group Animal Farm Foundation, and then-Ohio County Dog Wardens Association president Mark Kumpf.

Since then, Ohio has experienced 25 dog attack fatalities, 21 of them by pit bull, and at least 1,700 disfiguring pit bull attacks..." ...

[SisterK]

I love animals also
and pet sit a lot

but am super particular about the dogs I will sit

a lady down the road from me was killed by a pit bull last year
and even prior to that I had experiences that make me not want to engage with the breed

[skepsel]

A breed that should be exterminated.

[ZULU]

All breeds have their pros and cons.

[Norski]

There exists a number of articles on the site; perhaps this list may be of interest; here are two links to articles on the genetic items manifested physically in the pit-bull breed-type.

https://www.animals24-7.org/2019/09/09/dog-brain-study-refutes-every-major-claim-of-pit-bull-advocacy/

excerpt:
“ . . .Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 BY MERRITT CLIFTON

(Beth Clifton collage)

Looking at normal dogs’ brains shows how “fighting breed” brains differ
BOSTON, POMONA––There may already be weeping and gnashing of teeth among pit bull advocates, and perhaps significant fundraising underway to trump up rebuttals, too, following the September 2, 2019 Journal of Neuroscience publication of “Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds,” by Harvard University evolutionary neuroscientist Erin Hecht.

Erin Hecht and friends.
(Jon Chase/ Harvard staff photo)

Authors did not go looking for trouble
Hecht and five distinguished co-authors did not set out to pick a fight with organized pit bull advocacy.

In truth, Hecht et al largely side-stepped the pit bull-related implications of their findings in their article and post-publication statements.

Yet Hecht et al demolished the bedrock creed of pit bull advocacy that canine form, function, and behavior are inherently unrelated...” ...