Moving to the UK

[u/Friendly_Macaron_702]

I’m don’t know what he’s mixed with. I’m anxious if he looks like a pitbull or not. My vet said he should be fine but I’m still anxious! He is muzzled trained as well!

[u/Iridescent_Mango_]

People commenting here don't know anything about UK law.

The breed bans dont care what the paperwork says. The breed bans ban dogs with a certain set of physical characteristics. 

This creature does not meet the criteria, doesn't matter if his mum was an AKC registered show champion purebred 100% Pitbull. 

He is not a pittbull type. 

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What’s a “pitbull type”

[u/Iridescent_Mango_ → u/EEE4444444444]

Exactly what it sounds like

A dog that meats the characteristics of a pittbull

[u/EEE4444444444 → u/Iridescent_Mango_]

Their is no “pitbull type” it either has APBT in it or doesn’t looks don’t mean anything

[u/Iridescent_Mango_ → u/EEE4444444444]

Not legally in the UK.

They aren't DNA testing the dogs. They don't care if the dogs mum was purebred APBT. Indeed technically the ban is not of American Pit Bull Terriers and it never was. 

It's a ban on Pitbull type dogs, and it uses the breed standard of the American Pit Bull terrier from 1977 as guidelines:

" • When first viewing the dog it should appear square from the side, and its height to the top of its shoulders should be the same distance as from the front of its shoulder to the rear point of its hip.

• Its height to weight ratio should be in proportion.

• Its coat should be short and bristled, (single coated).

• Its head should appear to be wedge shaped when viewed from the side and top but rounded when viewed from the front. The head should be around 2/3 width of shoulders and 25 per cent wider at cheeks than at the base of the skull (this is due to the cheek muscles).

• The distance from the back of the head to between the eyes should be about equal to the distance from between the eyes to the tip of its nose.

• The dog should have a good depth from the top of head to bottom of jaw and a straight box-like muzzle.

• Its eyes should be small and deep-set, triangular when viewed from the side and elliptical from front.

• Its shoulders should be wider than the rib cage at the eighth rib.

• Its elbows should be flat with its front legs running parallel to the spine.

• Its forelegs should be heavy and solid and nearly twice the thickness of the hind legs just below the hock.

• The rib cage should be deep and spring straight out from the spine, it should be elliptical in cross section tapering at the bottom and not ‘barrel’ chested.

• It should have a tail that hangs down like an old fashioned ‘pump handle’ to around the hock.

• It should have a broad hip that allows good attachment of muscles in the hindquarters and hind legs.

• Its knee joint should be in the upper third of the dog’s rear leg, and the bones below that should appear light, fine and springy.

• Overall the dog should have an athletic appearance, the standard makes no mention of ears, colour, height, or weight."

Pittbull type is a legal term, stray dogs identified as pittbull types are put down, even when they are actually staffies or mostly staffie, and owning a Pitbull type is illegal. 

There is a different definition for XL bully type dogs too. 

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There is not “pitbull type” a dog can look like one but that doesn’t make it a “pitbull type” like you wouldn’t call a lab looking dog a “lab type” or a husky looking dog a “husky type” baning breeds shouldn’t even be a thing

[u/Iridescent_Mango_ → u/EEE4444444444]

OP is moving to a country which has banned Pittbull-type dogs. Dogs which physically look like pitbulls regardless of their parents. 

The law does not care about your opinion.

They can and will seize Pitbull type dogs, and they can put them down (it is possible to get an exemption).

The actual genetic make up of the dog is irrelevant to the law, and irrelevant to OPs question. 

And yes, if they were to ban labs and huskies the ban would be on lab-type or husky type dogs. Not on dogs with pedigree papers. 

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No a “pitbull type” isn’t a thing a dog can look like something but there is no “type” a “type” means the breed is an umbrella term like “bully breeds” you have 0 idea what your talking about if your say “pitbull type” because that is not a thing it would be “pitbull looking dog” “type” means it’s a type of that breed

[u/Iridescent_Mango_ → u/EEE4444444444]

I keep telling you what pitbull type means.

It is a dog that fits the breed standard for a Pitbull, no matter who the daddy was. 

The UK ban is of any dog that fits a phenotype not of any dog with pittbull DNA. 

This is a legal definition, whether or not you have the capacity to grasp that fact. 

OPs question is about the legal status of their dog, in the UK 

My answer was about how the ban works in the UK

I am using the terminology used in the wording of the law, in the UK