Horror as 80-year-old double amputee killed by FOUR pit bulls in savage attack which pulled him out

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63. I know someone who has a Lab/Boxer mix

However he looks a lot like a pit bull and has been mistaken for one in the past. I have seen the mother, who was a pure Lab, and the father, pure Boxer. If that dog ever got loose and attacked someone, he'd be labelled a pit bull, no doubt in my mind.

I see a lot of mixes with my job and some do resemble pit bulls, but that doesn't necessarily make them a pit bull/pit bull mix. There are over 20 specific physical points to look at when IDing a pit bull. I sincerely doubt these are taken into consideration in every single case.

That's not to say pits never attack and it's always misidentification, but I believe it happens more than many would like to believe.

I once found 2 stray kittens who were about 6 weeks old (curse the bastard who dropped them off!). As I was trying to find homes for them (and I did pretty quickly), everybody thought they looked like Maine Coon kittens. That didn't make them Maine Coons. Chances are they were just long haired tabbies of the regular variety.

With animals, you just can't always be sure just by their appearance as to what exactly their heritage is.