![]() (See The RSPCA recommends you & your pets for a pit bull’s dinner.) Furious response from pit bull advocates groups seek repeal of Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.) Dunn was the sixth 2022 victim of pit bulls who were mislabeled as something else, to evade the narrow definitions of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. The seventh dog attack fatality of 2022 broke the previous national record for one year. The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 explicitly prohibits possession of four “foreign” pit bull variants, the American pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasiliero, but allows pit bulls by any other name, including “American bulldog” and “Staffordshire,” both of which are essentially the same dog as an “American pit bull terrier.”ĭunn was the ninth U.K. Dangerous Dogs Act 1991Īdded Dunn, “American bulldogs, which were the breed of dog found in the home, are not one of the four breeds currently banned in the U.K.” ![]() Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 bans these breeds, but Staffordshire pit bulls and pit bulls by names other than “American pit bull terrier” were exempted in 1997. Kirstie Jane Bennard reportedly worked as a respiratory therapist.Ĭolby Bennard, assistant manager for Bumpus Harley-Davidson dealership in Colierville, another Memphis suburb, was unharmed and is believed to have been at work when the pit bull attack occurred. Relatives told media and posted to social media that Kirstie Jane Bennard had an “uncountable amount of stitches and bite marks over her entire body, including her face,” and that “both her ‘arms and legs are bandaged/wrapped up completely,” but Gibson reportedly did not believe she would suffer “any permanent damage.”īoth pit bulls involved in the attack were impounded by Memphis Animal Services. Injured while trying to save the children, transported to hospital in Memphis in critical condition, Kirstie Jane Bennard had reportedly improved to stable condition during the next 24 hours. (Facebook photo) Mother now in “stable” condition ![]() Kirstie Bennard with son Hollace husband Colby Bennard with daughter Lilly.
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