Guida Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 Snoopy is 18 weeks and 10 Kilograms Please help me! What kind of mix is he? Guida Quote
kendalyn Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 terrier / shepherd mix? More than likely Heinz 57 like most mixed breeds though. You will probably never find out for sure! :) Quote
Guida Posted February 17, 2004 Author Posted February 17, 2004 The problem is that I don't even know is parents because he came from a Shelter. He is very swet but What is he? Guida Quote
Guida Posted February 17, 2004 Author Posted February 17, 2004 Cute? Is that a new breed? Guida Quote
dogsgalore Posted February 18, 2004 Posted February 18, 2004 Probably has some terrier for sure, maybe some collie and like was said before maybe some shepherd. He's very cute. :D Quote
imported_Kat Posted February 18, 2004 Posted February 18, 2004 Definitely Border Collie in there, maybe a bit of GSD. Looks very like Star's Zebra actually! Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 Its a lurcher puppy, i wouldn't say collie or GSD more like terrier and greyhound possibly the mother was a lurcher a the father a terrier or vice versa. i would definatley say lurcher though which are lovely affectionate dogs! Quote
Guest Mutts4Me Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 Guida, He's getting big! He doesn't looks quite as much like a German Shepherd as he used to, but I think he probably still has some in him. Also looks like some terrier, too. There's really no way you're ever going to find out what he is, because mutts all look different... even two mutts of the same cross can look very different! Your pup is probably not a pure cross, meaning his parents were probably not two purebreds, but they were probably mutts themselves, so who knows? qwerty - Lurchers are pretty centralized in the England/Ireland area of the UK, aren't they? I just read in another thread that Guida's in Portugal, so I don't think there would be too many lurchers around. Though lurchers, from my understanding, are mutts themselves, so if the dog happened to be a mix of two breeds that could make a lurcher, then I suppose you could call it a lurcher, but probably not an intentional one... so I don't know if it'd still be a "lurcher," really... if that makes sense? Quote
DogPaddle Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 I don't see border collie myself, maybe border terrier? Certainly some other things but who knows. Try again in another 4 months? Quote
Guida Posted February 19, 2004 Author Posted February 19, 2004 About me being in Portugal. I live in Algarve in the south of Portugal. There are many tourists here,some live here all year long. And many have dogs they brought from their home countrys. That means that Snoopy could have any race in the world in his mix. Guida Quote
Guest Mutts4Me Posted February 20, 2004 Posted February 20, 2004 Guida napisał(a):There are many tourists here,some live here all year long. And many have dogs they brought from their home countrys. That means that Snoopy could have any race in the world in his mix. I don't doubt it. I wouldn't try to rule out any breed because of where in the world the dog is located. My point in bringing up that you live in Portugal was merely that even if Snoopy was a greyhound/terrier mix (which I don't think he is, as I don't see any greyhound in him), it wouldn't make him a "lurcher." Lurchers are mixes bred for specific purpose, and so I don't think an accidental sighthound cross could be termed a lurcher. We have plenty of sighthound mixes in the US, but we don't have lurchers. I also don't see how someone could definitely identify any puppy as a lurcher, because lurchers don't look one particular way. A lurcher can be a greyhound/pit bull, or a whippet/terrier, or a saluki/collie, and multiple other combinations, it depends on what the breeder wants to use it for. We'll never be able to tell you what your puppy has in him for sure, but keep bringing back pictures as he gets older, and as he matures, someone may have more of an idea. Quote
Guida Posted February 20, 2004 Author Posted February 20, 2004 Thanks, I will. About the lurcher, I had to go see what it was and I was rather surprise to find out that designer dogs started in the 16th century. Guida Quote
Guest Mutts4Me Posted February 21, 2004 Posted February 21, 2004 I wouldn't call a Lurcher a designer dog. They were bred for a purpose, and still are. When we say designer dogs on this forum, we're talking about new mixes that are created for the sole purpose of making a quick buck off of often unhealthy dogs in unhealthy conditions. In the 16th Century, there were plenty of mongrels, aka mutts, but not designer dogs (bred for looks over purpose). There also wasn't a huge overpopulation problem where millions of pets were being killed yearly due to lack of space. Quote
Guida Posted February 21, 2004 Author Posted February 21, 2004 So Lurchers are like what is done in Portugal by hunters. Hunters here mix Podendo with Beagle to get the perfect hunting dog, but they know it only works once, so they only mix pure breed dogs. The diference is that Lurchers can be breed. Guida Quote
Shannon_C Posted April 2, 2004 Posted April 2, 2004 I see Border Terrier in there with perhaps Collie Quote
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