4-year-old boy dies after pit bulls maul him on Detroit’s west side
Police were still searching for the dogs after the attack.
Detroit defends handling of dog found bleeding to death in cramped cage
Detroit officials were quick to defend the seizure of a 2-year-old dog, but they refuse to answer the bigger questions of accountability and deplorable conditions at the shelter.
Beloved family dog dies after being covered in blood, feces at city of Detroit shelter
Veronica Seward was horrified when she saw her 2-year-old pit bull bleeding profusely, laying motionless in a pile of his own feces inside a dirty cage at the Detroit Animal Control Shelter.
Mayor Duggan: City won’t remove animals from Detroit Dog Rescue – for now
The pledge by the mayor means the dogs won’t be seized and euthanized if the rescue group gets its proper paperwork.
Rescue dogs spared from police seizure at last minute
Detroit police avoided a potentially ugly standoff with an animal rescue group Monday.
Why Detroit Animal Control can’t be trusted with rescued dogs
Detroit Animal Control workers have euthanized the wrong dogs, fed puppies to snakes and killed animals with no health problems.
First chickens, goats, now this: Detroit threatens to seize rescued dogs
The city of Detroit is threatening to euthanize rescued dogs because the no-kill shelter doesn’t yet have paperwork.
Detroit firefighters rescue 22 dogs – mostly puppies – from burning house
The pit bulls were confined to a burning basement.
Detroit man loses hands, feet after being attacked by pack of dogs
When police arrived, the man was naked and pinned on his back as the pit bulls mauled him.
Humans not behind slaughter of chickens, goats at Detroit school for pregnant teens
Goats and chickens found slaughtered at a school for pregnant teenagers in Detroit last week were not killed by humans, the Michigan Human Society said this morning.