6% of the dog population? Does that seem really high to anybody else?
When you got to animal shelter’s these days (I’m in California), half or more of the dogs there are pits. They are hard to adopt out and are then euthanized. Since owners say their pit bulls easily escape leashes, collars, kennels, fenced yards, locked houses and cars, the dogs often roam free and mate with other peoples dogs or with other strays, leading to large numbers of pit mix pups that no one wants and these end up in shelters or dead by the side of the road alot. Then pits are the dog most often shot by police to halt attacks on humans. So I think that pits are 6% but many of them aren’t around for long and not in the public eye (shelters). So counting dog licenses and animal control/shelter reports is likely to result in a higher percentage count than observed on a day to day basis.