“Sick Em”

“Sick Em” was Originally Posted on June 12, 2005 by lavarock

The expression “sick em” refers to old movies where the person holding a dog instructs the dog to attack.

Since I could not get back to sleep, I read the news. In an LA Times article, it states [b]”The mother of the boy fatally mauled in his Sunset District home said Saturday that she shut her son in the basement to protect him from the family’s pit bulls before the attack.
“[/b] The woman locked her 12 year old son in the basement while she did errands, because the male dog was getting agressive. The boy came out of the basement, was attacked and died.

I did a quick search for “dog attacks by breed” and came up with a couple hits I read. The first was from someone who obviously is defending pit bulls and rottweilers. Interesting enough there is book they will sell you which supports their contentions.

The second site I went to involves a CDC stury. They do mention some reasons to take the numbers with a grain of salt, for example, sometimes it is impossible to determine the exact breed or cross breed of a dog.

In any event, look at the numbers in this PDF file: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/dogbreeds.pdf

Their conclusions:

[b]”Despite these limitations and concerns, the data
indicate that Rottweilers and pit bull-type dogs
accounted for 67% of human DBRF in the United States
between 1997 and 1998. It is extremely unlikely that
they accounted for anywhere near 60% of dogs in the
United States during that same period and, thus, there
appears to be a breed-specific problem with fatalities.”[/b]

So now I know what kind of dog to sick on the telemarketers