I do understand that, at times, this misinformation is something passed off by the owner of the animal, but I've been told by someone who works closely with a shelter that often, in areas such as Ontario, Canada, where there is a province wide ban on owning pitbulls, the shelter workers will lie about the breed of dog, and claim a pitbull mix isn't. Many of them are passed off as lab or boxer crosses. I understand that the workers do this in hopes of finding the animal a home, but how is it okay to lie and mislead people to put a dog in a home? How is it okay to open that family up to the potential heartbreak of having their pet removed because the shelter lied to them and sold them a banned breed?
I was actually very disgusted and upset when I was told of his. It's something that disturbs me a great deal, and something that scares me a great deal as well.
These supposed advocators of animals, voice for the voiceless, are lying and misleading to get these animals in homes, and as such, are endangering the animal itself.
How can that be considered right?