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To: LongElegantLegs; Eaker

about 60 to 70% of the dogs at the local animal shelter are listed as either a pit bull or pit bull mix. Do you think they have it wrong as well?


18 posted on 04/24/2009 9:14:32 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99
My dog was listed as a german shepherd/red heeler mix... That should give you some ideo of the high level of breed knowledge posessed by most shelter workers.

They were not competent enough to NOT send a pitbull home to a family with four little kids. I about had a heart attack when I figured out what he really was.

19 posted on 04/24/2009 9:52:45 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Militant fecundity personified.)
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To: Chet 99; LongElegantLegs
Yes I do.

I would venture that the average shelter worker would get at least three of my dogs wrong.

20 posted on 04/24/2009 10:55:30 AM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: Chet 99

Shelter people are not experts and clearly mislabel dogs much. Neither are vets or indeed, many breeders. Dogs simply vary too much, especially if they are mutts, and that is the #1 reason I am against banning “This breed” and “That breed”.


53 posted on 04/24/2009 6:53:09 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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