Dog_ma
Posted : 7/20/2007 11:47:52 AM
I've thought about Dane because of his head, but Danes are big and Ivan was much smaller than that. I don't know if any of the other pups had a ridge.
As for the ridgeback, we'd have people stop us on the street and ask us if he was RR quite frequently. I tried to pick pictures that would show the ways he didn't look ridgeback-y. As a pup, he looked like a purebred ridgeless RR, but as he grew some differences emerged.
ETA - he also had a lot of RR traits. Everything great about him was classic Ridgeback. Smart, stubborn, extremely athletic but calm inside the house, prey drive up the wazoo, and that dignity that ridgies have.