5000 dogs per state a year, on average.
13 per state, a day, on average.
Seems everyone has a bogus stat out there. Cat haters say cats kill 50 zillion birds a year. Some groups spread the BS that there’s 200,000 child sex slaves in the US (and if you don’t believe it, you must be a pedophile!). You name the cause, and there’s a bogus stat.