Do you have pets?

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My parents have two pitbulls, but we're not sure if the younger one is pure bred. People say she kinda looks like she's mixed with a lab or something. She's really sweet though and larger than the older pit. The older one is a bit more socially awkward and will try to leave if you show him any affection. We say he's more like a chihuahua than a pit bull because of this lol

Pit mixes out here are called 'lab mix' and 'terrier mix' and pitbulls are called 'american Staffordshire terriers' because there's no other way to get them in a daycare or boarding facility...  We had a 'chow mix' once that was actually half coyote!  It was one of the best temperament dogs but the owners had been told if they said it was coyote it would have been euthanized.

I see two types of Staffies here in Oz. There's the big, American pitbull type that I steer my own border collie clear of. And there's another, that looks almost like a cross between a PB and a daschund. They're all called 'Staffies' here, so it doesn't help. The daschund type staffies are beloved of all sorts of people, whilst the gangsta pitbulls grace homes that always look like they have a meth lab in the garage. These homes also have cars parked anywhere but the garage, which makes me think that it's not a lab for the petrographical analysis of Archaean greenstone rock samples that's in there.