History
Although pit bulls were all created with similar cross-breeding between bulldogs and terriers, each individual breed within the type has a distinct history. The US Humane Society estimated that in 2009 that there were over 79.2 million owned dogs in the United States; however, the number of pit bull-type dogs has not been reliably determined.
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