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<\/a> Aryson Lee Page & Barbara Brewington.<\/strong><\/em> CLINTON, North Carolina;\u00a0 DUFUR,\u00a0 Oregon\u2013\u2013<\/strong>Pit bull rescuer and longtime Village Dental Clinic dental assistant Barbara Hunter Brewington,\u00a0 38,\u00a0 of Bonnetville,\u00a0 North Carolina,\u00a0 on November 23,\u00a0 2025 became simultaneously the 75th person killed by dogs in the U.S. during 2025, \u00a0tying the record 2024 toll,\u00a0 and the 58th U.S. pit bull fatality,\u00a0 breaking the 2023 U.S. record for deaths by pit bull.<\/p>\n That data was not included in accounts of Brewington\u2019s death posted by media as far away as Australia and as large as People <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n But People<\/em> reporter Christine Pelisek did mention on December 2,\u00a0 2025,\u00a0 as WNCN television reporter Shanila Kabir had on November 24,\u00a0 2025,\u00a0 that according to Sampson County sheriff Jimmy Thornton,\u00a0 \u201cFrom all indications, \u00a0she had another pet, \u00a0a much smaller pet, \u00a0and she was trying to separate the two that were fighting, \u00a0and the bigger of the two dogs turned on her and attacked her.\u201d<\/p>\n Added Kabir,\u00a0 \u201cHer family said Barbara [Brewington] was one of the few neighbors who cared for a stray dog that roamed through the woods near their home on Peavine Road, and it was that dog that attacked and killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n While Pelisek and many others for more than a week recycled information from Kabir\u2019s first report,\u00a0 Beth Clifton of ANIMALS 24-7<\/strong> found Barbara Hunter Brewington\u2019s postings in her effort to find the owner of the pit bull who eventually killed her.<\/p>\n Brewington left her husband of nine years and three children.<\/p>\n As Kabir also mentioned,\u00a0 Brewington\u2019s death was \u201cthe second fatal dog attack reported over five days in North Carolina,\u201d\u00a0 following the unwitnessed November 18,\u00a0 2025 pack attack death of Michael Bodenheimer outside his home in Thomasville.<\/p>\n <\/a> Aryson Lee Page. (Facebook photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Brewington became the unfortunate double dog attack and pit bull attack record-setter due to the belated disclosure of the October 14,\u00a0 2025 pit bull attack death of Aryson Lee Page,\u00a0 called \u201cAl\u201d by family,\u00a0 in Dufur,\u00a0 Oregon.<\/p>\n Aryson Lee Page was to have turned three years old on December 3,\u00a0 2025.<\/p>\n His death \u201cis still under investigation,\u201d\u00a0 reported Martin Gibson for the Columbia Gorge News,<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cafter a pit bull killed him in a Dufur park.\u201d<\/p>\n Dufur City Park,\u00a0 on the south side of town, \u00a0is the only park in Dufur,\u00a0 population just over 600,\u00a0 but it is just across Fifteenmile Creek from the Dufur RV Park.<\/p>\n Which park Gibson meant is unclear,\u00a0 as are the other circumstances of the attack.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cWith the owner\u2019s help, \u00a0the dog was put down. \u00a0It is not known why the pit bull attacked the child,\u201d\u00a0 Gibson continued,\u00a0 oblivious to the reality that a pit does not need a reason other than the presence of another living being\u2013\u2013or in one 1986 Boulder,\u00a0 Colorado case,\u00a0 a life-sized concrete pig\u2013\u2013to detonate.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s fair to say there\u2019s no belief that anybody deliberately caused any of this to happen,\u201d Wasco County district attorney Kara Davis told Gibson,\u00a0 shedding no further light on the matter.<\/p>\n Julia Renee Page,\u00a0 mother of Ayson Lee Page,\u00a0 along with other family members,\u00a0 grieved his death on social media almost immediately,\u00a0 but without mentioning that a pit bull,\u00a0 or even a dog,\u00a0 was responsible.<\/p>\n Posted Christina Castellanos, \u00a0of The Dalles, \u00a0the Wasco County seat,\u00a0 20 miles north of Dufur,\u00a0 \u201cBaby Al was such a bright light in everyone\u2019s lives. \u00a0That baby boy touched every person who met him. \u00a0He was a loving and kind, \u00a0but energetic and busy little boy. \u00a0He truly lit up any room and was always the life of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> Montgomery County dog warden Mark Kumpf with pit bull advocate Jane Berkey, who helped Kumpf to undo the Ohio law recognizing pit bulls as inherently \u201cvicious.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n In Ohio,\u00a0 meanwhile,\u00a0 state law from 1987 until 2012 defined pit bulls as \u201cinherently vicious,\u201d \u00a0therefore requiring pit bull owners to keep their pit bulls behind secure fences,\u00a0 muzzled in public,\u00a0 and insured against liability.<\/p>\n The Ohio law withstood several court challenges,\u00a0 but\u00a0was undone by the combined efforts of Toledo Blade<\/em> publisher John Robinson Block,\u00a0 the Best Friends Animal Society,\u00a0 the pit bull advocacy group Animal Farm Foundation,\u00a0 and then-Ohio County Dog Wardens Association president Mark Kumpf.<\/p>\n Since then,\u00a0 Ohio has experienced 25 dog attack fatalities,\u00a0 21 of them by pit bull,\u00a0 and at least 1,700 disfiguring pit bull attacks.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Among the disfigured victims were 11-year-old Avery Russell,\u00a0 of Reynoldsburg,\u00a0 and her cousin Jessica Henry,\u00a0 on June 11,\u00a0 2023,\u00a0 when invited to the home of a woman named Stephanie Ayers for a play date.\u00a0 Ayers left after their arrival to run an errand,\u00a0 leaving the girls in the yard.<\/p>\n Ayers\u2019 two pit bulls,\u00a0 left in the house, \u00a0mauled both girls when Avery Russell tried to use the bathroom,\u00a0 losing both ears and spending a week in a coma.\u00a0 Jessica Henry,\u00a0 coming to her rescue,\u00a0 was bitten in the neck, \u00a0arms, \u00a0ears,\u00a0 and torso.<\/p>\n One of the pit bulls had previously injured two other children,\u00a0 but Franklin County municipal court judge Mary Kay Fenlon sentenced Ayers to serve only four days in jail and pay a fine of just $450,\u00a0 plus court costs.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Responding to that and the many other Ohio pit bull attacks,\u00a0 Ohio state house members Kevin Miller (R-Newark) and Meredith Lawson-Rowe (D-Reynoldsburg),\u00a0 introduced \u201cAvery\u2019s Law,\u201d\u00a0 HB 247.<\/p>\n Passed by the Ohio house on June 18,\u00a0 2025 and passed unanimously by the Ohio senate on November 19,\u00a0 2024,\u00a0 \u201cAvery\u2019s Law\u201d is now before Ohio governor Mike DeWine,\u00a0 awaiting his signature to take effect.<\/p>\n \u201cAvery\u2019s Law,\u201d\u00a0 as summarized by Ava Boldizar of WCMH television news in Columbus,\u00a0 the state capital,\u00a0 \u201cwould require courts to order the euthanasia of dogs who seriously injure or kill someone in an unprovoked attack. \u00a0Dogs who hurt an intruder or someone abusing them would be exempt.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cThe state\u2019s current law only mandates euthanasia after a dog kills a second person,\u201d\u00a0 Boldizar noted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe measure would also allow dog wardens to immediately seize dogs they have reason to believe have inflicted serious injuries or death on a human,\u201d\u00a0 Boldizar continued.<\/p>\n \u201cCurrently,\u201d\u00a0 under the state dog law as weakened in 2012,\u00a0 \u201cthey can only do so if the animal has previously been designated as a vicious or dangerous dog.<\/p>\n \u201cThe legislation would require courts to hold a hearing within 10 days of the seizure, during which a judge would determine next steps for the animal.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Owners of dogs designated dangerous or vicious dogs,\u00a0 Boldizar explained,\u00a0 \u201cwould be required to purchase $100,000 in liability insurance;\u00a0 \u00a0to pay an annual registration fee of $100 \u2013 double the current amount;\u00a0 would be required to keep dogs in a yard with a locked fence \u201c\u2019hat is sufficiently constructed to prevent escape\u2019 when outdoors;\u00a0 would be required to keep their dogs locked up when an invitee is on their property,\u201d\u00a0 and would be subject to \u201cmultiple criminal penalties\u201d if found to have failed to \u201cprevent their pets from endangering or attacking someone.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThroughout the bill\u2019s five hearings,\u201d\u00a0 Boldizar mentioned,\u00a0 \u201cno one spoke out against it. \u00a0The measure drew support from more than a dozen individuals, \u00a0including representatives of the Ohio County Dog Warden Association,\u201d\u00a0 apparently trying to redeem itself post-Kumpf,\u00a0 \u00a0 the American Kennel Club, \u00a0and Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council is also \u201clooking to strengthen its ordinance on dangerous dogs,\u201d\u00a0 Hannah Pedeferri of MTN News reported on November 26,\u00a0 2025,\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cafter a brutal attack on a tribal member prompted renewed discussions about community safety.<\/p>\n Teela Atwood,\u00a0 36,\u00a0 pregnant,\u00a0 of Lame Deer,\u00a0 \u201cwas brutally attacked by nearly a dozen dogs early this week on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation,\u201d\u00a0 Pedeferri recounted,\u00a0 \u201cleaving her with severe injuries that required her to be life-flighted to Billings for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n Neighbor Lance Littlebird, \u00a0who \u201cwitnessed the attack on Teela Atwood and stepped to the rescue after she had been dragged into a ditch by the pack of dogs,\u201d\u00a0 told Pedeferri that,\u00a0 \u201cThey were all just literally going for the kill on her.\u201d<\/p>\n Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council representative Robert Simpson\u00a0raised the question as to whether the dogs who attacked Atwood were actually \u201crez dogs,\u201d\u00a0 or free-roaming unowned dogs who historically have rarely been dangerous,\u00a0 or were owned by someone who deliberately kept vicious dogs,\u00a0 or were perhaps dumped on the reservation by a non-resident trying to get rid of them.<\/p>\n <\/a> Beth & Merritt Clifton.<\/strong><\/em> \u201cIn 2021,\u201d\u00a0 Pedeferri recalled \u00a0\u201ca Lame Deer man, Duke Little Whirlwind, was killed in a similar incident involving a pack of dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n (See Heather Pingel death protecting child echoes the Daxton Borchardt case<\/a> and Fatal dog attacks on Native American \/ 1st Nations land, 1995-present.<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryson Lee Page & Barbara Brewington.(Beth Clifton collage) Pit bull rescuer in North Carolina and almost-three-year-old in Oregon CLINTON, North Carolina;\u00a0 DUFUR,\u00a0 Oregon\u2013\u2013Pit bull rescuer and longtime Village Dental Clinic dental assistant Barbara Hunter Brewington,\u00a0 38,\u00a0 of Bonnetville,\u00a0 North Carolina,\u00a0 on November 23,\u00a0 2025 became simultaneously the 75th person killed by dogs in the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[16353,156694,156688,4791,156695,1205,4121,156689,156690,156691,3914,13483,145950,4347,10469,5995,156692,156693,14148],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-330554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-add","tag-aryson","tag-avery-russell","tag-barbara","tag-brewington","tag-bull","tag-death","tag-jessica-henry","tag-jimmy-thornton","tag-kara-davis","tag-lee","tag-merritt-clifton","tag-michael-bodenheimer","tag-page","tag-pit","tag-record","tag-robert-simpson","tag-stephanie-ayers","tag-toll"],"yoast_head":"\n
(Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\nPit bull rescuer in North Carolina and almost-three-year-old in Oregon<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Tried to break up fight between rescued pit bull & smaller dog<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nAryson Lee Page<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cThe dog was put down\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMeanwhile in Ohio<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nAvery Russell<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cAvery\u2019s Law\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nNot just \u201cone free bite,\u201d\u00a0 but \u201cone free death\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nInsurance requirement<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nNorthern Cheyenne Tribal Council<\/h2>\n
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