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macky2dope posted:Hey guys! I'm always looking at animals on craigslist because I'm a masochist, and today I spotted these cute little babies--the ad claims that they are german shepherd/lab mix, buuut uhm, I've never seen a GSD or lab with the blue merle markings/blue eyes. Merle is dominant so one of the pups' parents had to be merle. Neither labs or shepherds come in merle at all so there has to be something else in there. I could believe aussie. Cattledogs don't come in merle and their white spots aren't ticked so no ACD most likely. A picture of mom would be helpful but they didn't provide one.
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Instant Jellyfish posted:Merle is dominant so one of the pups' parents had to be merle. Neither labs or shepherds come in merle at all so there has to be something else in there. I could believe aussie. Cattledogs don't come in merle and their white spots aren't ticked so no ACD most likely. Yeah, ACD didn't seem very likely to me either.. I sent them an email asking for pics of one or both of the parents, so we'll see what comes of that. In the meantime, another shot in the dark--maybe Catahoula Leopard Dog? I wouldn't think they'd be very common, but I've noticed an inordinate number of them on the local CL postings lately.   (it's a slow saturday night in my town.. haha)
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Dec 9, 2012 06:56
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The pups look like they have medium/long coats and I think Catahoulas generally have short coats? Longer fur is recessive so both parents would need to have long fur. 
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Dec 9, 2012 10:30
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6-Ethyl Bearcat posted:The pups look like they have medium/long coats and I think Catahoulas generally have short coats? Longer fur is recessive so both parents would need to have long fur. Actually they'd both need to carry it, neither would have to actually be long haired. 
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Dec 9, 2012 20:58
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Guess that's what I get for posting tired.
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Dec 10, 2012 04:15
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 This is Harvey. We adopted him last Sunday and it just said Terrier Mix. He surely has the wiry coat and beard of a terrier, but the colors of maybe a rot? He is 4 and a half months old and really calm.
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Dec 10, 2012 12:50
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fr0punk posted:
100% sure there's no Rott in there. That coloration is normally just called black & tan, and you can see it in loads of different breeds, including terriers. Here's a page with lots of them on it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Black-and-tan_dogs The generic "terrier mix" is probably a safe description of him.
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Dec 10, 2012 13:07
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Can you post a pic of Harvey standing up? If he's got stubby little legs, he and my stubmutt are brothers from a different mother. Will post pic after work of the likely wirehaired dachshund/yorkie, because Texans love their designer dogs so much that they dump them at shelters when they turn out to be too yappy. joyfulgirl129 fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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joyfulgirl129 posted:Can you post a pic of Harvey standing up? If he's got stubby little legs, he and my stubmutt are brothers from a different mother. I'll try and snag one soon, he is kind of hard to catch still while standing. He is about 20lbs now at 4 and a half months and seems like he has room to grow a little more. His legs aren't too stubby but his torso is kind of long but not exactly like a dachshund. Lucky for us, he isn't a yapper at all. Just quiet and calm outside of crazy puppy play time.
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Dec 11, 2012 01:13
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What would you guys guess this dog is? pic 1 pic 2 Everyone was guessing things like greyhound/shepherd mix. His owner just got the Wisdom Panel blood test results back. Apparently that dog right there is the product of a Staffordshire bull terrier mix and a Dogue de Bordeaux/Bedlington terrier mix. 
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Dec 11, 2012 01:44
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If his coloring weren't so unusual I would be tempted to say purebred greyhound. The ears aren't quite right either, though.
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Dec 12, 2012 07:15
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I should be getting Shadow's results in a couple of weeks. Watch, he's gonna turn out to be some sort of poodle/Newfie mix or some ridiculous crap.
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Dec 12, 2012 15:10
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This is Bowie. I adopted him from a rescue last weekend. His mother was a corgi mix, and his father was an Australian shepherd. Bowie, so far, has been amazing, and really given me something to look forward to each day.
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Dec 13, 2012 18:13
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msyronfire posted:This is Bowie. Bowie is an awesome name for that dog. Are his eyes two different colors?
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Dec 14, 2012 01:39
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Tiny Faye posted:Bowie is an awesome name for that dog. Are his eyes two different colors? Thank you! Yeah, one is blue and the other is brown. We were listening to Hunky Dory on the ride back and it just seemed fitting.
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Dec 14, 2012 07:00
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David Bowie's eyes are the same color, one just looks darker because the pupil is permanently dilated  That puppy is adorable, and is going to destroy your entire life in the best possible way 
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Dec 15, 2012 18:25
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Shadow's DNA results are in! There are three main breeds in his makeup, two are obvious, one I didn't expect.  LOL corgi
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Dec 18, 2012 03:10
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Haha, congrats on your corgi/havanese/chinese crested mix! The main breeds aren't super weird or impossible though. I know at least in my city rotties and gsds are really popular and not usually owned by the most responsible people.
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Dec 18, 2012 04:38
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Oh yeah, I wasn't as shocked by the Rottweiler as I would have been, say, Dandie Dinmont Terrier. He's just so sleek and non-Rottie. CLEARLY THAT IS THE CHINESE CRESTED IN HIM~
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Dec 18, 2012 04:43
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Does this dog (http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/24726945) look like a pure GSD to anyone? He's grey.. maybe mixed with a schnauzer or wolfhound? That face though... I'm so happy he's got an adoption pending though! It just showed up this last time I loaded the page, and I load it every few days. His listing was killing me: chronic skin condition, adoption fee only $8! Eight. loving. bucks. Probably the saddest thing I've ever heard. He looks like the best dog and I'm so happy he's got a home
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Dec 19, 2012 02:21
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Any thoughts on what Starbuck might be mixed with? The Sharpei is evident. I had thought pit bull, but this weekend at the dog park I got to see her next to a purebred pit and a purebred sharpei and she was much smaller than either of them. She's about 35 lbs.  for size comparison, this is her next to our 63lb lab mix 
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Dec 19, 2012 02:42
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I wouldn't discount shar-pei/pit cross. 35 lbs is on the smaller side for a female sharpei but wouldn't be that rare, and pits are sort of all over the place...
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Dec 19, 2012 05:35
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I've seen a few puppies come into the shelter listed as shar pei/english bulldog puppies, that really just looked like smallish shar peis. They came in from puppy mills, so it was likely they had an idea of their breeding. I didn't see them grow up, though.
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Dec 19, 2012 05:45
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lionskull posted:Does this dog (http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/24726945) look like a pure GSD to anyone? He's grey.. maybe mixed with a schnauzer or wolfhound? That face though... He's probably pure, they do come in silver tones.
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flyable posted:Any thoughts on what Starbuck might be mixed with? The Sharpei is evident. I had thought pit bull, but this weekend at the dog park I got to see her next to a purebred pit and a purebred sharpei and she was much smaller than either of them. She's about 35 lbs. I have no idea what the other breed could be, but when I scrolled so that her head was off screen, her body shape in the sitting photo almost looks like some of the non-fat pugs/puggles I have encountered. Her wrinkly forehead and tiny ears get me every time you post photos of her
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Papaya posted:My current dogs are purebreds (one from a BYB when I was in high school, the other a rescue) but I do have some past dogs to share Your story about your puppies bought tears to my eyes. Especially the stupid gf of your ex that let Foxi off the leash! all of your babies are/were beautiful and you sound like a great pet owner!
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They had the audacity to lie to me about it so I spent many hours wasting my time looking for her in shelters and posting lost ads when really, she was never missing at all. Ugh.
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Topoisomerase posted:I wouldn't discount shar-pei/pit cross. 35 lbs is on the smaller side for a female sharpei but wouldn't be that rare, and pits are sort of all over the place... It would make the most sense to me. She has a pitbull head and a total pit personality. Maybe she's got a third mix in there to attribute to her size. Invalid Octopus posted:I've seen a few puppies come into the shelter listed as shar pei/english bulldog puppies, that really just looked like smallish shar peis. They came in from puppy mills, so it was likely they had an idea of their breeding. I didn't see them grow up, though. Oh my gosh those pups must be the wrinkliest ever. The rescue I got Lando from had sharpei mix puppies that looked exactly like Starbuck, just big piles of wrinkles. I'm not sure where Starbuck was bred, but it was some good breeding! cryingscarf posted:I have no idea what the other breed could be, but when I scrolled so that her head was off screen, her body shape in the sitting photo almost looks like some of the non-fat pugs/puggles I have encountered. Eee you should see her tail. It's clearly just an uncurled shar pei tail and looks like it belongs on a turtle. I will have to find it. Also you can't see from that photo, but when she sits all her wrinkles pool at her back legs and it looks like she's wearing baggy pants.
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My wife and I recently decided to embark on the adoption process with a local rescue organization that she works with at her job. We're told the mom is a "shepherd mix" and I'm assuming it's German shepherd by the looks of it. However, they say there could be three different dads that contributed to this same litter. and the one we're trying to adopt:  Christmas edit: The adoption fell through, sadly. Due to a number of mis-communications on the organization's end, we won't be able to call that little pile of fur our own. On the plus side, we visited the local humane society shelter and connected with this guy:  80% sure he's full-on black lab but I'm going to get a genetics test anyway just to confirm. Higgy fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Dec 26, 2012 |
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Topoisomerase posted:I wouldn't discount shar-pei/pit cross. 35 lbs is on the smaller side for a female sharpei but wouldn't be that rare, and pits are sort of all over the place... Yeah, a lot of byb shar pei tend to be on the small end. I've met the dogs who were probably Beck's parents (right age, right area, had a litter around the time she would have been born), and the male was a 43 lb mix of pit and shar pei. Most of the females I've worked with in the shelter range between 35-45 lbs.
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flyable posted:Eee you should see her tail. It's clearly just an uncurled shar pei tail and looks like it belongs on a turtle. I will have to find it. Also you can't see from that photo, but when she sits all her wrinkles pool at her back legs and it looks like she's wearing baggy pants. Yessss. I'm not much of a dog person, but my friend's shar pei mix Molly was such a lover. I would roll around on the ground wrestling with her like a little kid. When she ran, all her loose skin would sort of slosh back and forth. She also instinctively pointed at ducks and geese without fail, so we figured she was shar pei/working line lab mix.
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I got my wisdom panel results back on copper. I've posted him several times in this thread. I THOUGHT he was a boxer Great Dane mix, but he's not. He's boxer with a mix of Great Pyrenees and "other". Ill post the full report later.
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IT'S PIPPEN. Pippen is the two-year-old border collie mix I adopted a few months ago. My guess is golden retriever/bc, but who knows. Mostly he looks like an oversize collie with a retriever's fur color. 90% of people automatically refer to him as a "her," which is nuts -- obviously my fluffy blond dog oozes raw masculinity.  You can see his weird merled right eye here, and some of his nose freckles. He also has light freckling on his paws  Doofily set ears. Occasionally one will pop up when he's stalking something or chasing another dog.  Pippen is a total gentleman inside, but once he gets to the dog park he's a wrestling, chasing, stick-catching, ball-fetching, running-in-circles machine. Holy crap he loves other dogs so much. He always gets pretty filthy but today was especially bad.  Trying to take a nap post-bath. 
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I worked with an interesting mutt today at the shelter (billed as boston x schip, maybe true, definitely boston): He looked really weird, though cute: long-ish rough guard hairs, moderate muzzle, fairly lanky build.
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Engineer Lenk posted:I worked with an interesting mutt today at the shelter (billed as boston x schip, maybe true, definitely boston): What an unfortunate mix. I can kind of see the schip in him (the ears and the fur) but are there really a lot of schipperkes running around?
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I could see boston/pom, if schipperkes aren't common in your area, but why someone would want to create such an abomination is beyond me.
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Boston crossed with a plain ol', muttyish scruffy terrier would definitely be a possibility too imo.
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I had a co-worker who bought a schipperke and shi tzu mix, just because he was the cheapest puppy there. Why the gently caress would you want a mix of those two breeds? He ended up looking like a big fluffy black mop. I've also seen more schipperke mixes in the shelters, so maybe they are becoming more popular? At least with the byb designer breeders. I could definitely see them doing a Boston mix with it. Though it would create a terrible dog imo
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Engineer Lenk posted:I worked with an interesting mutt today at the shelter (billed as boston x schip, maybe true, definitely boston): That is a dog/cat hybrid.
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Fraction posted:Boston crossed with a plain ol', muttyish scruffy terrier would definitely be a possibility too imo. This was my first thought, before I saw his paperwork. I can believe the schip mix, though. I have a likely one at home and this dog has the same type of coat and some of the same (obnoxious) vocalizations. Captain Foxy posted:I could see boston/pom, if schipperkes aren't common in your area, but why someone would want to create such an abomination is beyond me. Maybe - but there was very little volume to the coat. Most of the pom mixes I've seen are pretty poofy, for lack of a better term.
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I guess there are more milled Schips out there than I thought. The rescue that I follow on Facebook always has mill surrenders and BYB'ed dogs in bad condition coming through so I suppose its more common than I want to admit.
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