I have had people ask me if my 46 pound Chocolate Labrador Retriever is a pit bull. And nobody who has gotten a dog from our local animal shelter was ever informed correctly about the breed.
And those are the jokers who would be 'identifying' random dogs as pit bulls so that they could collect the bounty.
The analogy to guns is very apt. An "assault weapon" can be just about anything a legislator wants it to be -- except an actual assault weapon, which is covered by the old 1936 Act and permitted with a Class III license. I don't expect them to do any better identifying dogs.
God save us, our children, and our pets from civil servants.
Oh, indeed. I got my blonde female Lab mix from a county shelter in Texas. Her paperwork had her identified as a black male German shepherd mix. When I pointed out the discrepancy to the shelter worker, I was assured that it was the correct paperwork for this particular dog.