Activists challenges dog leash ordinance and wins PA '... wisely, it’s illegal to let your dog run loose in York — the issue of the stupidity or meanness of animal or owner made moot by law.' It took just one  activist, Sybil Peachlum, to turn that ordinance on its head. When she protested the tickets she received from Animal Control for walking her well-behaved dog unleashed on city streets, she won. 'She could be called a gadfly, but most public officials who have crossed paths with the York woman call her other things, ranging from a pain in the posterior region to just plain nuts...' [York Daily Record]

 Woman hospitalized after dog mauling tears her face off IA Two unlicensed pit bulls broke away from their owner and went on a rampage, mauling an innocent pedestrian (and the woman who tried to help her):  'She had no face left ... Youcould see her skull. Her right cheek was hanging off to the side... And her nose … her nose is gone.' (Most dog mauling victims are children; most fatalities are children.) [Bettendorf News] (This horrific story illustrates why owners must enroll their dogs in basic training. If you can't control your dog, you don't deserve to own a dog... it's as simple as that.)