I thought this was going to be about Huma
Misleading headline. The main article from earlier today had a picture of these dogs. They are not daschunds . They are not wiener dogs. What is with the media in distorting the truth these days?
Mark another for the dogs are NOT God spelled backward column!
Pitbull crosses. The vet already came out and said his tech that made the statement was a retard.
I read an article yesterday about this. It said that the dogs were pit bulls and pit bull mixes according to the vet who euthanized them. There was also something about the shelter or someone wanting to hide that fact.
Fer crissakes, why not just stomp on the damn rat?
At least he apparently hit it, with unstated number of rounds expended..........
It feels like you have to really try hard to be killed by a pack of weiner dogs.
#MeToo
So sad. I hate many dog owners. They have no business owning a dog. They do nothing to keep them under control and let them bark and charge at people and do nothing. A lot of people in my neighborhood are like that.
I hope the lock owner of these dogs up for murder and kill all the remaining dogs.
Over my entire career I’ve been inside over 7000 houses, many times when the owners were not present. In all that time the only two dogs that ever gave me a problem were a chow and a wiener dog.
The wiener dog was home alone and possessed by satan behind a baby gate in a room I needed to access. The bared teeth, snapping, growls, demonic eyes and insane determination to eat me was something out of a horror flick.
They look like pit crosses, but they were obviously not taken care of as they were covered in fleas and ticks. It tells me they had an irresponsible owner. Seven dogs with an irresponsible owner running in a pack is not good news. May she RIP. A horrible death.
Dogs are sacred... ignore, move on...
Get a long little doggy
I wouldn’t let wiener dogs take me down. I would pick up a big stick and those weiner dogs would start flying through the air like I was Sauron in LOTR.
All kidding aside this woman’s mauling was a terrible thing. I wouldn’t own a pit bull. I would be afraid for my children and my dogs. It has to be a horrible way to go.
Euthanasia technician? Gullible reporters parrots the techs obviously ludicrous statement. Doesnt bode well.
This is an update on the controversy from the following address: Photos and comments here: http://blog.dogsbite.org/2018/05/dog-bite-fatality-ardmore-woman-killed-by-dogs.html
2018 Dog Bite Fatality: Woman Dies After Being Attacked by a Pack of Dogs Near Ardmore, Oklahoma
Most Media Outlets Fail to Run Veterinarian’s Statement
pack of dogs kill woman in ardrmore
Tracy Garcia died late Thursday after being attacked by a pack of dogs near Ardmore.
Vet Removes Post
UPDATE 05/17/18: Yesterday, inaccurate headlines about this fatal dog mauling went viral. Here are the themes: sausage dogs maul and weiner dogs attack. The media went viral around the world, not restricted to the United States. This is despite a statement by a veterinarian disputing it, who had examined these dogs while alive, the best way to determine breed identification. Dr. Douglas Aldridge stated, “The dogs appear to me to be a pit bull and 4 pit-bull mix puppies.”
Two employees at the Ardmore Animal Shelter — who received the dogs dead, never examined them alive — are responsible for deliberately mislabeling six of the dogs as predominantly “dachshund.” Vet technician Amanda Dinwiddie, whose husband has bred and sold pit bulls in the past, and shelter co-director Tena Layton, an owner of multiple pit bulls, are 100% responsible for misleading the sheriff, media and public about the breeds involved in this deadly attack.
What is a mystery to us is why Layton ever supplied photographs of the dogs to the public? Because one of those images “clearly” identifies the largest dog as a pit bull. It’s younger offspring cannot even reliably be called dachshund-mixes. (The ears, among other things.) Bull terrier-mixes is a much better assessment. “Mixed-breed” will always technically be accurate as well. Some media stories are updating now after the explosion of inaccurate news stories yesterday.
Dinwiddie and Layton also claimed that all of the dogs were under 40 pounds. Dr. Aldridge refutes that as well, stating yesterday on Facebook, “There was one that was larger, approximately 55-60 pounds, that the owners described as the sire to these shorter dogs.” Dr. Aldridge is referring to the pit bull, visible in the photographs as the largest dog in the pack. Furthermore, Aldridge spoke to the owner of the dogs and confirmed the male pit bull was the sire of the smaller offspring.
Earlier today, on May 17, Dr. Aldridge removed his post from the Westwood Veterinary Hospital Facebook page. All that we have now are screenshots. Instead of writing about this victim and her death, we are being forced to refute bullshit. As Alberto Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle shows: “The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” You can thank Dinwiddie and Layton for this bullshit. Both should be fired ASAP.
Amanda Dinwiddie and Tena Layton of the Ardmore Animal Shelter
05/15/18: Dog Mauling Victim Identified
Yesterday, the victim was identified as 52-year old Tracy Garcia. Several news stories were published stating that pit bulls were not involved. Mind you, this is after the Ardmore Animal Shelter released photographs of the dogs with at least one depicting a pit bull. Amanda Dinwiddie, a vet technician at the Ardmore Animal Shelter claimed that “dachshund” was the primary breed, mixed with terrier. Dinwiddie also claimed the pit bull was a “border collie mix.”
Since 2005, border collies have been involved one fatal dog attack, which also involved two American bulldogs and a Neapolitan mastiff.1
Dinwiddie’s assessment was incorrect. Further, her husband used to breed and sell pit bulls. Prior to the dogs reaching the Ardmore Animal Shelter, they were taken to the Westwood Veterinary Hospital, where they were euthanized. Due to the upheaval caused by Dinwiddie’s “border collie mix” claim, Dr. Douglas Aldridge has spoken out on the Westwood Veterinary Hospital Facebook page. “The dogs appear to me to be a pit bull and 4 pit-bull mix puppies,” Dr. Aldridge wrote.
There is no more “breed mislabeling” — the good doctor has spoken. But readers can see that Dinwiddie of the Ardmore Animal Shelter was trying to alter U.S. fatal dog attack statistics to “protect the pit bull breed.” She may have had the help of the shelter as well. The death of Tracy Garcia is tragic. She endured a horrible pack attack involving pit bulls. Then for Dinwiddie to deliberately mislead the sheriff, media and public about the breeds involved? That is a disgrace
THE PIT BULL LOBBY
Excerpt from Pit Bulls – Five Part Series , La Presse, Montreal
Investigative report on the Montreal pit bull ban and the influence of the pit bull lobby
By Marie-Claude Malboeuf, August 13, 2017
English translation: plus.lapresse.ca
French: Qui Veut Sauver Les Pitbulls
Also see: http://blog.dogsbite.org/2016/10/montreal-pit-bull-ban-veterinary-report-pit-bull-lobby.html
WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS? The US pet industry is worth 16 billion dollars. Without pit bulls to sell, to rescue, to rehabilitate, to care for and to feed, a lot of people would see their revenues plunge, denounced Jeffrey Borchardt, who lost his baby when he was torn from the arms of his babysitter by two pit bulls. Since this tragedy, the American DJ and other victims have worked to expose the gears of the powerful pit bull promotion lobby. Who pulls the strings? Portrait of a tightly woven network.
Level one: Financing source
ANIMAL FARM FOUNDATION
Run by an American millionaire, Animal Farm Foundation has for its motto: “Equality for pit bulls.” The pressure group devotes itself entirely to combatting against any regulation targeting its dogs. After inheriting a fortune from her father, Jane Berkey, who also owns a literary agency, turned over at least $6 million to her group, $2.85 million in 2013, according to government records. She pays 9 employees (one of whom, the director, makes more than $100,000 a year) and finances numerous groups that share her philosophy.
Level two: The researchers
NATIONAL CANINE RESEARCH COUNCIL (NCRC)
To produce studies, AFF bought a private research body in 2007. The acquisition was kept secret until the victims’ group Dogsbite discovered this during litigation. The National Canine Research Council (NCRC) was created by a veterinary technician, Karen Delise. Neither an academic researcher nor a veterinarian, she self proclaims as the “greatest national expert on deaths caused by dog bites.” An “action fund” permits the organization to engage in lobbying, according to a government registration. The NCRC is linked to several advisors and consultants. This is the case for Gary Patronek, the veterinarian who co-signs (NCRC) studies, and in the case of the Page ~ 16 former chief animal control officer of Calgary, Bill Bruce, who was still employed in that civil service job at the time he accepted his association with NCRC. The agency already had consultant Glen Bui on board, whose heavy criminal record can be found online (illegal weapon possession, obstruction of justice, domestic violence and harassment). Still, thanks to millions from Animal Farm, the NCRC finances like-minded researchers—notably on the issue of identification of pit bulls, information available on their website.
Level 3: Publication
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAVMA)
The American Veterinary Medical Association publishes NCRC studies in its journal. On its own website it proposes sample letters [for readers to write] contesting any law aimed at pit bulls. Moreover, its site has a link to AFF. The Association added the following introduction to a famous 2000 study: “In contrast to what has been reported in the news media, the data contained within this report CANNOT be used to infer any breed-specific risk for dog bite fatalities. [To reach that conclusion] it would be necessary to know the numbers of each breed currently residing in the United States. Such information is not available.” Even if they are opposed to a breed ban, for practical reasons amongst others, the authors of the study—seasoned in the ministry for Health and government institutions—nevertheless concluded: “In spite of potential bias and the lack of data on the canine population, pit bulls seem to be implicated in 42% of fatal tragedies. We do not believe that in the United States, the proportion of pit bulls amongst the dog population even comes near to approaching 42%. We therefore believe that the disproportion of deaths associated with pit bulls is real and escalating.”
Level 4: The political lobby
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
The studies of the AFF network allow [lobby] groups to put pressure on politicians. They propose regulations [they favor] and try to overturn those they dislike. Sometimes with success. The central facts about Best Friends Animal Society are that it manages $60 million and has for its motto: “Save them all,” for it is opposed to all euthanizing of animals. Its senior advocate, Ledy VanKavage sits on the board of AFF. The website of Best Friends Animal Society indicates that she paid an ex-economist from the tobacco Page ~ 17 industry, John Dunham, to create a fiscal calculation scheme designed to advise governments on the cost of breed banning. [Dunham’s] calculations were attacked in the Texas Tribune in 2011. The following year, before a referendum on pit bulls in Miami-Dade, a government committee discovered that the real costs incurred in targeting dogs was 65 times lower than those claimed by Dunham. “With all its money, the lobby [can afford to] finance lawyers and harass elected officials. And if it doesn’t get what it wants, it threatens to finance the campaign of their political opponents!” denounces Angela Provo, whose son Beau Rutledge was killed by a family pit bull.
Level 5: The distributors
THE ANIMAL CARE INDUSTRY
All the lobby studies are abundantly distributed by animal-based companies like shelters, breeders, trainers, etc. In Montreal, they are [distributed] by, amongst others, the SPCA, whose mission is to avoid euthanizing dogs and whose two most senior executives are themselves owners of pit bulls. On social media, pit bull owners deploy these studies relentlessly and accuse all their opponents of ignorance. Certain more aggressive ones have even threatened the mayor of Quebec City with death. Unfortunately, some militant activists have come to a tragic end, killed by their own fighting dogs—notably Darla Napora, at the time 8 months pregnant (California, 2011) and Rebecca Carey (Georgia, 2012)