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What does he resembels most?

Posted : 1/13/2007 10:41:15 PM

My dogs name is Shailer pronounce Sailor. He is a Rottie/Lab mix and I was wondering what he resembles most.

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ColleenC

Posted : 1/13/2007 11:02:02 PM

I just wanted to say that you should not connect that tie out to the head halter. If he ever ran to the end of the cable, he could easily snap his head back injuring his neck. They are only meant to be used when walking with the dog on a short leash.
As for his looks, I don't see any one thing standing out. But, that color isn't a lab or rottie color. Maybe shepherd, of some hound. Those ears sure look houndy to me. He is a very pretty dog!

Sowilu

Posted : 1/15/2007 6:56:28 PM

Oh I was walking him with the long lead I could not find his leash so I had to use that. And besides I was right there beside him so if he would have tried to run I would just have told him no. That picture is not so good here is another one.

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Lindsey Gossett

Posted : 1/15/2007 11:26:32 PM

Are you sure he is a lab rottie mix? His face looks really rottie in build but his color is wrong for both breeds.

Katy Harvey

Posted : 1/16/2007 9:34:51 AM

He looks more like Rottie/German Shepherd because of his coloring. Cute dog!

rwbeagles

Posted : 1/16/2007 3:26:09 PM

I have seen Red Rotties...but they are marked like red Dobes. see below. Are you positive of his parentage? I'd buy Rottie but perhaps with something that comes in sable like others have said, GSD or some hound breed.

Sowilu

Posted : 1/16/2007 7:01:11 PM

Well actually I don't know what he is because my uncle bought him at a flea market. He said he saw the mom and the dad I don't know which one was which but he told me he saw a Rottie and a Lab and the man said that they were the parents of the litter. So I don't know my uncle always said he resembeld a Rottie and not a Lab. Maybe the Lab was mix. Who knows??????

diane303

Posted : 1/17/2007 10:47:32 AM

...or maybe, when she was in heat, mom got out and found a really handsome GSD dog too! Litters can be mixed from more than one sire.

Doesn't matter, though. He looks like a great dog.

brookcove

Posted : 1/17/2007 11:22:03 AM

More than one sire can sire puppies in a litter but each puppy can only have the genetics from the dam and ONE sire.

His color is sable, which I've seen in plenty of hunting curs hounds around here (Howdy neighbor! *waves*). It's not red like the red Rottie Gina showed (neat!). The regular Rott color is genetically black, and sable is a dominant modifier over the tan points, so I'm guessing one of the parents was a treeing cur dog of some type very common around here.

C K

Posted : 2/6/2007 9:48:56 PM

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

I have seen Red Rotties...but they are marked like red Dobes. see below. Are you positive of his parentage? I'd buy Rottie but perhaps with something that comes in sable like others have said, GSD or some hound breed.

...red is a DQ in the show ring. Here's the DQ list from the standard:

Disqualifications
Entropion, ectropion. Overshot, undershot (when incisors do not touch or mesh); wry mouth; two or more missing teeth. Unilateral cryptorchid or cryptorchid males. Long coat. Any base color other than black; absence of all markings. A dog that in the opinion of the judge attacks any person in the ring.

And the Color section:

Color
Always black with rust to mahogany markings. .... Serious Faults--Straw-colored, excessive, insufficient or sooty markings; rust marking other than described above; white marking any place on dog (a few rust or white hairs do not constitute a marking). Disqualifications--Any base color other than black; absence of all markings.

rwbeagles

Posted : 2/6/2007 10:09:56 PM

DQ doesn't mean that the color doesn't exist, or is even rare...lol.
White GSD's are a DQ in AKC's book but they sure have a big following, as do white schauzers. Not sure what you were trying to say?

C K

Posted : 2/7/2007 8:46:17 PM

They are not able to be proven unless they are doing Schutzhund (I've never seen them doing schutzhund, but I don't get to see much of it) and I've never heard of an attempt to get them recognized by their breed club, so the people who are breeding them are probably not reputable.

mudpuppy

Posted : 2/8/2007 1:00:27 PM

the black is dominant, so it's possible for two black rotties to have red pups. Hard to permanently eliminate those recessive genes from the gene pool.
GSD-rottie crosses are pretty much always colored like rotties (black with tan points) since both breeds are generally homozygous for black n tan patterns (saddle in GSD). Sable is dominant to the black/tan pattern, so some sable hound mixed with rottie would be a good guess.

micksmom

Posted : 2/8/2007 3:35:43 PM

What a stunning dog! I, too, don't see Lab, but I do see Chesapeake Bay Retriever in his coloring.

[linkhttp://www.akc.org/breeds/chesapeake_bay_retriever/index.cfm]http://www.akc.org/breeds/chesapeake_bay_retriever/index.cfm[/link]

Sowilu

Posted : 3/12/2007 9:52:39 PM

I don't know what he is but I still love him!