brookcove
Posted : 12/5/2006 9:56:45 PM
I guess I've rescued enough that I didn't even blink when I read the post. Both dogs are black colored, small, domeheaded and bug eyed, and undershot in the jaw. If you look at the body type there are strong similarities there too. Be a judge and mentally shave all that hair off the female! [
] Add some substance because he's male. That's the female.
Now you are left with just a few characteristics:
White spotting. This is a dominant trait. A dog with an all white body, mated to a solid black dog, can produce a dog with "Irish" marks like the pup. It depends on the genetics of the white. White pit bulls and terriers (JRTs, rat, fiest) have the right gene for this, as do hounds and all the collie type breeds, of course.
Smooth coat. This is dominant also. This means the sire had to be a smooth coated dog since the peke cannot carry the smooth gene. Terriers also carry a "rough" gene for a bearded face which is dominant over both smooth and the peke's long coat. This means the chances are the pup would actually be a fuzzy face if his daddy were a jack. Hounds are homozygous for smooth coats. But only the smallest hounds would be implicated in this case. And only red and tri Beagles would produce a black puppy from a Peke - ee yellow is dominant. I'm now leaning towards a pit bull, collie, or BC (actually I'm already pretty sure, but I'm working this out anyway).
Ears. More erect is incompletely dominant. I'm rejecting the hound now. Again, daddy is making his mark here. Mama's lighter weight ears are in evidence so they want to lift pretty high, but I think that they are sideways breaking ears like those of a pit bull terrier.
What is very probable is that pup's daddy is a Heinz 57 with a good bit of APBT. There's some bone and heft too and of course some length of leg and moderation of the smoosh face.
I once took in some pups as BCs that turned out to be BC crossed with, as far as I could guess, Cocker, Boson terrier, corgi, plus some other things.