What types of dog is this

October 15, 2019 3:15 PM

I'm trying to figure out what breed (if any) my puppy is closest to. Her mother is a street dog (picture included) and her father is unknown.

She's the only one in the litter who has grown to resemble her mother at all, the other four have stayed black and white and have fluffier fur.

Given the local canine situation she could easily be the end result of many generations of uncontrolled interbreeding.

I'm hoping someone more familiar with dog breeds can help me out?

posted by Tell Me No Lies to Pets & Animals (13 answers total)

Response by poster: (the last picture is just bad lighting. She doesn't turn black in sunlight)
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 3:17 PM on October 15, 2019

I’m not 100% but looks like a heart stealer to me
posted by one4themoment at 3:17 PM on October 15, 2019 [51 favorites]

Some kind of spaniel maybe? Or lab? Or both!

If you want to know badly enough to spend some cash, there are doggie DNA tests. I did Embark with my dog (link goes to my results page so you can see what you get).
posted by Weeping_angel at 3:32 PM on October 15, 2019

That there’s a short-haired cutie hound.
posted by SaltySalticid at 3:35 PM on October 15, 2019 [16 favorites]

Maybe a little bit of Jack Russell in there? Her floppy ears and face/nose profile, along with the way she's sitting and laying in some of the pictures, remind me of some other Jack Russell mixes (boxer, lab) I've known.

also, 1000% agree on heart-stealer and cutie hound!
posted by stellaluna at 3:44 PM on October 15, 2019

The dogs that come to mind to me are lab, some kind of hound, and maybe pibble. But really I think you've just got a Heinz 57 pup there - and a damn cute one, to boot! Doggie DNA test is going to be your best bet if you want to know for sure(ish).
posted by Hold your seahorses at 3:46 PM on October 15, 2019 [2 favorites]

Depending on your budget and curiosity, you might want to consider using Wisdom Panel to determine the breed. It's like doing 23 & Me but for dogs.

That said, your dog resembles my dog. My dog's mother was half beagle (and half mutt), and her father was 100% mountain cur. My pup is all hound: nose to the ground, food-oriented, high energy, high stamina. She looks similar to your dog...
posted by jdroth at 4:08 PM on October 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

Pariah dog.
posted by Pastor of Muppets at 6:30 PM on October 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

Mom's quite snooty. My best guess would be mom is something like a whippet/pitbull mix, with dad being a lab mix.
posted by drlith at 9:27 PM on October 15, 2019

She looks like a sighthound or scent hound (maybe beagle?) mixed with a standard bully breed mutt. Dogs can have multiple sires within the same litter, so it’s possible that she may only be a half-sibling to her littermates. She’s definitely a cutie!
posted by shesaysgo at 3:03 AM on October 16, 2019

I'd say at least some whippet, boxer, lab?
posted by speakeasy at 10:19 AM on October 16, 2019

That cutie right there is a purebred Anybody's Guess. Your adorable dog has clearly got multiple breeds in her family tree. FYI some breed traits combine and get expressed as traits that don't resemble any breed in the family tree.

In other words, no one can reliably tell you. A DNA test could.
posted by ImproviseOrDie at 10:38 AM on October 16, 2019

My dog looks just like the puppy in the second photo, except she has thicker fur and droopy features. She is a Great Pyrenees and Cane Corso mix. That said, it turns out lots of mixes look strikingly like her or have the same coloration. She has been compared repeatedly to a Saint Bernard, Lab, border collie, and Aussie.

Edit: I missed that that puppy is your dog--mine most closely resembles your pup in that picture.
posted by Carouselle at 4:23 PM on October 16, 2019