The last time I looked at our county shelter’s listings, most of the dogs were listed as part: Border Collie, Australian Shepherd, German Shepherd and Lab. Oddly enough, the pictures all revealed short haired dogs with large, broad, thick skulls, short pointed ears, tails with very short hair, etc.
One of our local shelters has a total of 8 animals (including the one cat) listed. Four of the seven dogs are listed as ‘pit bull mix’.
This is a ‘lab mix’, according to them: http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/28579368/
Here are the shelter’s total listings. (And that’s really all they have) http://www.petfinder.com/pet-search?shelterid=AZ205
So, when you take out the cat, you’ve really got five out of the seven pit or pit mix.
Go to the ad for Lacey and tell me that’s 100% lab. (The small thumbnail on the main page says more than the other two photos.) I could be wrong, but the chest doesn’t look lab to me. This is the only one I’m on the fence about.
So, I totally agree with you. They’re advertising pit mixes as other breeds to get them adopted.