Pearl is a ?

I don't see any Shar Pei. earl actually reminds me of ron2's dog, Shadow.  I believe Shadow is a Husky/Lab mix.  She's such a pretty girl.  Love that shiny coat!

The reason they thought/think Shar Pei is due to her thick little ears, wrinkly loose skin as a puppy and one of her siblings looked very much like one.  Apparently the litter was dropped off at 1 day old and the Human Society hand raised them.  Pearl was the last to go so we missed seeing the sibs. 
 
My vet said there aren't other breeds that have those thick ears. 

IMO, your dog is a husky/lab. I have seen a lab/sharpei in my little town and they don't have the features your dog has.

It appears your dog has thick, pointed ears that are not as long as a Lab's. A bushy tail, and the runner's body of a Husky. Neither Labs nor Sharpeis have bushy tails. Does your dog have more than one or two colors in his fur? Also, your dog carries his furry tail over his back, possibly in a hook, correct?
 
 

Hi, Ron2.  Thanks for the reply.  Just for more pics, you can click on my picture properties and copy to the end of the word "pets".  That should take you to many more head shots of Pearl.
 
 

 
You can see her little ears in the second picture.  She is all black.  She has a large black spot on her tongue.  Her tail does hook over her back, yes.   One time I took her to the Vet and he asked what she was and I told him Lab/Shar-Pei.  He came walking down the hall later and asked why I thought Lab.  He suggested the Shepherd/Shar-Pei.  Since he's said that it makes perfect sense.  She's a skiddish dog, too...especially as she gets older. 
 
I wish I could post pics of her as a puppy....they really show more sharpei features than her adult pics do.  Anyway, what makes you think husky?

Anyway, what makes you think husky?

The physical similarities between your dog and mine. The length and bushiness of the fur. The pointed ears small ears. The black spot on the tongue, which is not always a sign of Chow but can be a sign of nDNA mix in a mixed breed.

I'm with ron on this.  That coat is just to thick to be lab and no way could it come from a shar-pei.  The muzzle is too long to be pei and a bit longer than a lab, more husky IMO.  Imagine if you painted her with husky markings and you will see it almost right away.  Huskys also have very thick ears so that could explain why the ears are so thick the size of the ears is just a result of the mix.  Then that tail, just looks husky to me.
 
If you have pics in other links then link away, we always enjoy seeing as many pic as we can[]

Forget the lab....that's just what the pound told me.    Does anyone see Shepherd?  When she was young, she had much more of the Pei look in her.  Wrinkly skin and her snout was much more boxy.  Not sure if this is a certain breed trait or just her...but her back feet (between paw and ankle) are really LONG. 
 
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Huskies have erect ears, correct?  So, if she has husky in her, she also has a floppy eared breed in her because her ears are down unless she's alert or doing that "airplane" pose like the picture I posted above.
 
Her behavior is hard to figure, too.  She loves to chase squirrels but gets stopped at the fence.  She did kill a rabbit in the yard as a puppy.  She is friendly to my cats, but chases and seems to want to nip them at times.  She's very jealous of the cats. 
 
Her bark is VERY deep and she doesn't use it very often.  She mumbles and talks regularly, though.  She does not like people that come to the house -- furnace repairman and pizza guy lately.  Even when we tell her to stop, she barks non-stop.  (She's in her crate when this happens, perhaps I should let her out -- but that's a different board.) 
 
She also must be touching you when she wants to.  She paws you to death, leaving lovely red scratches on arm, legs, whatever she can get to.  She also licks you if she sees exposed skin -- little licks, one at a time.  I thought maybe it was from being hand/bottle raised and they let her lick them, but maybe it's not that at all. 
 
She's skiddish.  Afraid of loud noises and campfires (might have been the smoke).  She hates wet grass, but she loves her kiddie pool.  She's afraid of you if you're standing over her and I'm not sure why.  She wasn't that way when we got her and nothing happened to her since.  She's also hand shy when you go to pet her head from above...again, she was never hit. 
 
Any of that sound like a particular breed? 

I would have to guess there's some husky in there as well.  The thick coat and the tail really seem husky-like to me.  Something about the length/width of the face reminds me of a Shepherd as well....  Maybe Lab (for coloring)/Husky (coat/tail/ears)/Shepherd (facial features)?  

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Any of that sound like a particular breed? 

 

...She loves to chase squirrels but gets stopped at the fence.  She did kill a rabbit in the yard as a puppy.  She is friendly to my cats, but chases and seems to want to nip them at times. 

Well, any dog will chase something that runs from them, but the rabbit killing is something that my purebred Siberian would have done. 

Her bark is VERY deep and she doesn't use it very often....

A lot of Labs have deep barks.  So do GSDs.
 
  

...She does not like people that come to the house -- furnace repairman and pizza guy lately...

Our Husky/GSD was like that after I got pregnant with our first son.  If it was a man he didn't know, and I was home alone, he wouldn't let them near the door.  Although, with him, as soon as we told him it was OK he was fine.
 

...She mumbles and talks regularly, though. ...

That sounds like our son's Siberian and the Lab/English Setter we had.  The Siberian "talks" all the time- moans, "aaroos", etc.  The Lab mix would "harumph" and/or groan when I asked him to do something he didn't want to do.

...She also must be touching you when she wants to.  She paws you to death, leaving lovely red scratches on arm, legs, whatever she can get to....

That seems to be Retriever trait, especially the pawing.  It could also be insecurities.
 

She also licks you if she sees exposed skin -- little licks, one at a time.  I thought maybe it was from being hand/bottle raised and they let her lick them, but maybe it's not that at all. 

I think you're on to something there.  I believe licking like that is a submissive thing.  If she was bottle fed, I'm assuming she wasn't with her mother for very long.  Submissiveness/insecurity is typical of puppies seperated from their mothers early.

[quote She's skiddish.  Afraid of loud noises and campfires (might have been the smoke).  She hates wet grass, but she loves her kiddie pool.  She's afraid of you if you're standing over her and I'm not sure why.  She wasn't that way when we got her and nothing happened to her since.  She's also hand shy when you go to pet her head from above...again, she was never hit. 

Again, this could be from being seperated from her mother too early.  Her mother might have been on the skittish side, too, and passed it on to her pups.

Huskies have erect ears, correct

Shadow can hold either ear up, or both up, or both floppy. I'm really not seeing any GSD in her.

Huskies have a high prey drive and will go after small animalsto which they are not socialized. They are aloof and stand-offish until they know someone better and are likely to bark at strangers. They are mouthy and very physical because that's how they play with each other. Shadow can howl, bark, and have a run-on bark that is like a howl with punctuation. His bark and his sub-gutteral will rumble your guts. How much does Pearl weigh?

Shadow weighs about 64 lbs and is 26 inches to the shoulders. That's a little big for a Husky and closer to the height and weight of a Malamute. But he is Siberian Husky/Lab. I can't really see any Sharpei in Pearl.

Here's a pic of a GSD/Shar Pei





here's a Lab/Shar Pei



 
And here's my Husky/Lab
 

Pearl is around 62 pounds. 

I can sort of see husky, but, I don't know...I've been looking at pictures of Shar Pei's and I totally see her face...minus the wrinkles, of course.  Her snout is a bit longer, but her eyes and ears are a match for me. 

Perhaps I have myself a good ole '57 here. 

Shar Pei are a very, very prepotent breed. They have been as they are a very, very long time and it SHOWS when they are in a first gen mix. You woudln't even really have to guess or squint your eyes lol. The hippo head, the skin and more important the COAT....their name means sand skin or shark skin I forget and it is NOT normal in feel. It is abrasive and not particularly pleasant to touch IMO. In fact some people get rashes from it!
 
I see Northern breed in your dogs coat...and I also see Lab.
But to be truly honest what your dogs coat reminds me of is a Schipperke. But they are TINY dogs....if you'd like something more exotic why not say "Schipperke x Lab"? lol...

In THIS face you see your girl? lol...
 


But not this one?