Crossbreeding

@moontyrant Oh, I bet!

Once upon a time I worked at an animal shelter and we had some WILD mutts come through - once there was a pit bull/shih tzu (size and shape of a pibble, coat of a shih-tzu - looked like a discount goldendoodle TBH, but he was a Very Good Boy).

Another time we had this short-legged, long-bodied dog with a long snout and long white hair, his kennel card said he was a "Maltese/Basset Hound." (Peek behind the curtain: your local animal shelter is usually making a best guess when it comes to whatever breed is listed on the kennel card, if we don't have a previous owner to confirm.) This seemed like a weird guess to me, so I did some digging and discovered that he had actually been born in the shelter 10 years prior. Someone brought in a totally normal red basset hound who turned out to be pregnant, and when she gave birth, she had ten little fluffy white sausages. There were baby pictures, it was amazing - all 10 survived and found homes, this boy came back to us because his adopter went into hospice and couldn't care for him anymore. Turns out Dad was a Maltese. I'd tell people this story and the journey their faces took as they worked through the logistics there was the highlight of my day.

My youngest dog is a chihuahua, lab, beagle, doxie, australian cattle dog, australian shepherd cross per DNA testing.

She's wild. Hunt it, herd it, dig it out, retrieve it - wild.

But little.

I am a Wisconsin hybrid*. Does that count?




*Mix of a bunch of heritages as long as there is at least one drop of German

cmriverside wrote: »

Was this supposed to be about Crossfit??

Not anymore!

I'm personally fond of this lab/shepherd cross.
I call it "Shiloh the Wondermutt."

My daughter is fairly partial to him, as well.





Edit: First two pics are from early/mid summer.
Last pic is earlier today.