Dogsbite.org
| Motto | "Dogs bite. Some dogs don't let go."[1] |
|---|---|
| Formation | October 2007 |
| Founder | Colleen Lynn |
| Legal status | Non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity organization[2] |
| Focus | Dog bite fatality statistics, victim advocacy, and breed-specific legislation |
| Website | dogsbite |
DogsBite.org is a nonprofit organization that advocates for victims of dog bites and breed-specific legislation.[3][4][5] It publishes statistics, accounts of incidents, and victim testimonies relating to dog-bite-related fatalities in the U.S.[6] Numerous news organizations have cited statistics and comments from DogsBite.org, including Newsweek,[7] Time Magazine,[8] and the New York Post.[9]
History
After being injured in a pit bull attack while jogging in 2007, DogsBite.org founder Colleen Lynn researched dog bites and attacks. Four months later she launched a website to educate the public about dangerous dog breeds.[6] In 2016, a reporter for BuzzFeed News interviewed Lynn and wrote an article about the very contentious debate between the pro- and anti- pit bull factions, where he opines "There is no middle ground." The reporter chronicled the harassment campaign against Lynn after she started the dogsbite.org website, including a threat of lawsuit which didn't materialize and someone's analysis of Lynn's own attack concluding she was at fault "for not jogging correctly."[10] DogsBite.org has grown into a national organization, and their website records dog bite fatalities and has information about breed-specific legislation throughout the country.[6]
Criticism
Bronwen Dickey in her book Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon criticized DogsBite.org for using media reports, offering links to blogs with questionable content, for reporters giving equal airtime to DogsBite.org and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and for using the term "science whores"[11][12] — referring to a particular misattribution of a 2010 post on an archived blog made by another person (A.S.) who was referring to those of her peers "who sell both soul and credibility for a few dollars."[13]
In 2016 when Montreal was considering a pit bull ban and tensions were high, a Radio Canada reporter criticized DogsBite.org for attributing an indirect death as a dog bite related death, specifically a man from Tennessee who died from alcoholism related complications months after he was bitten by a dog.[14] In that case, the elderly man's left arm had to be amputated.[15] "Medics cut away [his] jacket to find his left hand attached by only a few threads of tissue. His right ear was partly torn from his head. His right eyelid was gashed, he had bite marks all over his legs and his right hand was badly mangled as well," a Reader's Digest article states. "A few months later, ... unable to rally from his wounds, the frail Chapple had died."[16][17]
References
- ↑ "About Us". DogsBite.org.
- ↑ "DOGSBITEORG Incorporated". GuideStar. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ↑ "What Bite Reports Represent" (PDF). Austintexas.gov. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ↑ "Civil Liability for Injuries Caused by Dogs After Tracey v. Solesky: New Path to the Future or Back to the Past?". John Marshall Law School. 2016.
- ↑ "As family mourns, propaganda hides danger of pit bull attacks". Dallasnews.com. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "The dangerous dog debate". AVMA. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ↑ "Miami Baby Mauled to Death by Pit Bull While Sitting in Bouncy Chair". Newsweek. May 31, 2018.
- ↑ "The Problem With Pit Bulls". Time. June 20, 2014.
- ↑ "Is it time to ban pit bulls?". New York Post. February 21, 2017.
- ↑ "Inside The Most Vicious Conflict On The Internet". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ↑ Dickey, Bronwen (10 May 2016). "Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon". Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Retrieved 3 December 2018 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Pit Bulls: The Psychology of Breedism, Fear, and Prejudice". Psychology Today. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ↑ "Science whores". Maul Talk Manual. September 27, 2010.
- ↑ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Science -. "Pitbulls : des données non scientifiques fréquemment citées par les médias". Radio-Canada.ca. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ↑ "Menace Unleashed". CommercialAppeal.com. 2007.
- ↑ "A Pit Bull Face-Off (page 1)". Reader's Digest. October 2007. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009.
- ↑ "A Pit Bull Face-Off (page 2)". Reader's Digest. October 2007. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009.
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