[1] Source: Judd, Alan, “In Game of Life, Vick Blitzed by Trouble,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 22, 2007.
[2] Name and some identifying details have been changed.
[3] Much of the history and all the stats in this section derive from The Pit Bull Placebo, in which Karen Delise, founder of the National Canine Research Council, reviewed 150 years of newspaper archives and studied every account of a fatal or near-fatal dog attack.
[4] Name and some identifying details have been changed.
[5] According to a 1996 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (written by J. J. Sacks, M. Kresnow, and B. Houston). “Dog Bites: How Big a Problem?” Injury Prevention 2 (1996): 52-54.