Playing the semantics game huh, I think the word Pit bull is the most used word in that list..
Pit bull-mix is a guess.
Pit bull-type means they have no clue.
Pit bull is used anytime an idiot wants to make a sensational story out of a dog bite.
Kinda like people loading clips into their Glock automatics.
The media doesn’t deal in semantics, they deal in lies.
The problem is that pit-bull terriers are actually a type of terrier, not a breed, per se. Just as there are greyhound types (not capitalized), and retriever types, and spitz types.
Even using “type” as opposed to “specific breed” - PBT loses, I’m afraid.
Of course, there’s also the problem that many morons can’t tell a Labrador from a PBT, anyway, much less any mutt. There are many more mutts out in the world than any lists would imply. So we can’t always count on the ID being correct. (Which is why I totally oppose “breed” legislation.)