Recently, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend of some people falling back on old habits of randomly labeling dogs. These habits often relate to labeling dogs “pit bull” or “blocky-headed-whatevers.” We all know these labels don’t have any meaning and are inaccurate.

What a lot of people miss when we talk about removing breed labels is that they are inaccurate across the board.

Because we spent some time in South Carolina recently and saw a lot of inconsistent labeling, we decided to use some SC shelters to highlight how unreliable and subjective visual identification is.

We grouped our findings by label to show how different most of these dogs are from one another. Get ready, because there are a lot of pictures of a lot of dogs – and a lot of labels that are about to make you very confused!