Please Help Identify Breed

Absolutely not, but there are traits this dog has that could belong to no other category but a pit bull. His eyes could not possibly have come from any kind of beagle, lab, or hound. When he pants, there's no question. In the pictures I took, it makes his muzzle look deceivingly long and you can't see the underside of it. You also can't see the pink around his right eye.

His hair is nothing like a beagle, lab, etc. It is much more straw-like and shorter too. He has no fur on his belly, only short white hair. I have never seen that on any beagle or lab. His chest is proportionally bigger than any dog's I've ever seen.

Also, he's 51 pounds at less than 6 months. There's not a chance in hell he's beagle/lab or beagle/golden, etc.

 

thats better but i still say basset hound :rolleyes:

 

im seein a little bluetick in couple of those pics...beagle/yellow lab/basset/bluetick coonhound....im sure of it

 

beagle-rott

 

a lil saluki

a lil ridgeback

a lil great dane

 

Maybe American Bulldog/lab. Would account for the size.

 

A pomapoo

 

Definitely NO Basset Hound in him... I own two Bassets right now and my family used to raise them. He has some hound in him for sure, but Basset? Hell no!

Whatever he is, he is pretty. His headshape does kind of remind me of an APBT, just not a well-bred one. He probably came from a poor breeder or from dogs that were BYB quality. My guess would be Beagle/mutt/possibly APBT.

 

Hun, I've been raised and owned by Hounds of all kinds. Right now we have two Bassets. After fostering, raising, owning, training, etc. many many many hounds (Beagles, Walkers, Black and Tans, Blueticks, Hamiltons, Bassets) I can tell ya- there is hound in him somewhere! And keep in mind that he is from a shelter; he is probably a puppy that was peeled off the streets or rescued from a bad breeder or surrendered by an irresponsible owner who didn't spay/neuter their dogs. He could have thousands of breeds in him. I highly doubt he's just a cross between two purebreds. Chances are, he has multiple generations of mixed breeds in him. His granddam could have been a Great Dane and Poodle mix for all you know.

I would still have to say Beagle and mutt cross. Possibly Beagle/American Bulldog/mutt. One of his parents definitely had a hound breed in them though.

A mixed breed isn't always going to be just two breeds. My mixed breed has FOUR breeds in him, that we are aware of (long story short, we took in a stray whos previous owner was later on found, they didn't want her but told us that she was an Australian Shepherd/APBT cross bred for farmwork, then the neighbors working-cross APBT/GSP/Beagle got her pregnant, we kept a pup from the litter).

 

i see no apbt in that dog. It looks like a Hound of some Sort

 

I don't want to spam, but I just want to make a point here...

Everybody keeps saying that there is no way this dog has Pittie in him- but have you guys forgotten something?.. This dog is from a shelter. Meaning he is from a backyard breeder or the streets. Neither of those places are going to contain well-bred dogs. A lot of BYBs own purebred APBTs; they may not have good pedigrees or conformation but yes, they are purebred APBTs. There are tons of APBTs that are homeless and roam the streets trying to survive, and they can be purebred too. A purebred doesn't mean meeting the breed standard and looking what it's suppossed to, it means being bred from dogs of the exact breed with the same characteristics.


To show you what I mean, I'm going to compare a BYB-bred Beagle to a well-bred Beagle.






Just because it wasn't a good example of the breed doesn't mean it wasn't one. That's like saying my neighbor's Jack Russell Terrier/Whippet mix isn't a JRT/Whippet mix because it doesn't resemble both parents. His dam (Whippet) had erect ears and was extremely big, and had an underbite. But she was still a Whippet. His sire (JRT) had one floppy and one erect ear, bowed legs, a pointy muzzle, and had funny looking feet. But he was still a purebred JRT. The result was a funky little skinny dog with messed up ears and semi-short legs. The puppy (now 3 years old) looks like a long-legged JRT with a semi-erect ear and a floppy ear, and a slender build. I would have never assumed Whippet unless they had actually told me and showed me the parents.

Not every purebred will be well-bred or conform to the breed standard, and not every purebred x purebred cross will result in puppies that show both breeds. If you breed a Rat Terrier and a Pit Bull, for example, and 11 puppies are born, not all of them are going to resemble both breeds. Some may look strongly like Pitties, some may look mostly like Rat Terriers. Some may show both breeds, some may not.

 

looks like one of those "bitsa's".......

 

this thread is absolutely rediculous. i joked about the makeup of that dog(as did a few others) and its went on and on. you CAN NOT look at a dog and necessarily rule anything out. ive seen plenty of solid dogs that went thru hound dog lookin phases. who hasnt? i cant believe how many "experts" we have ruling out this breed and sure that dog is another breed due to a couple small pics:rolleyes:. gimme a break

 

I'm positive of what breed it is. Its a mutt thats just come out of the closet and now decided that it wants to go back in.

 

no bassett no hound they both have strong genes and would definetly show my opinion would be american bulldog mix
I :ocant spell tonight LOL

 

Hats off to you for saving a dog. You reall can't tell what a dog is bred with just by looking at it, but if I had to guess, I would say that he looks like a Johnson bred/style Bulldog. I could be wrong though.

 

im voting poodle:rolleyes: