What is the oddest cross bred dog you have known?

The lady who cuts my hair has a dash hound and lab mix pup, and she has and interesting look to her I have to say.

PoodleXEnglish bulldog.  very cute dog  and looks nothing like what you'd imagine.

My mom's dog, Toby, is the son of mutts. His mother was Dalmation X Dachshund. His father, well.... His mother lived with a pure Pekingese, but she was a fence climber. The puppies all looked and acted different.

Verne was a funny looking girl. Long body, short legs, black and white spots. Her face was half black, and half white. She was surprizingly agile, and a very sweet dog.

I had a pittie/chow mix. He had the pittie body, long chow fur and face and was brindle.

I've seen a few weird mixes over the years.  Whenmy sister got married, the neighbor's Basset/GSD was at the wedding.  A couple of  years later we looked at a Beagle/GSD.  Both dogs we marked and had the coat of a GSD, but in Beagle and Basset bodies.  A couple of years ago, we had a Bichon/Border Collie come into class.  He has the body of a Bichon (just larger), and is tan & silver.  Oh- and he has the Bichon allergies.  He's a cute dog, with a great personality.

Golden Retriever x Corgi (Pointed ears, very short legs, and a Golden coat)
 
Pit Bull x Pug  (Attitude with a capital "A", brindle, massive head, not brachycephalic, curly-q with a bit less curl tail)
 
 
 

Chi/husky.  Once in a while this dog shows up at the park.  Its about 12 or 15 pounds and fiesty with the build of a Chi but it has all the markings of a Husky and has huge feet!

I met a chi/pit cross once. She was grown, and looked like a 4 month old Pittie puppy. Very cute!

There was a Basset/Golden in Emma's obedience class. Very cute girl. Looked like a long, short Golden.

Bernese Mountain Dog X Jack Russell Terrier

Very cute dog.. the mother was apparently the Jack Russell. The owners said it must have been a terrible pregnancy....
The dog was about 25ish pounds, not huge. Had the markings of a Bernese, but the spunk of a Jack Russell.  The body shape looked like a 50/50 mix of both breeds.

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She reminds me of an Affenpinscher. 

A chow/ corgi mix is the weirdest mix I have seen yet. It had a chow head and tail, big paws, and corgi legs & body. He is such a cutie pie.

While looking around a shelter just before I got Simba I came across the strangest looking dog I had ever seen he was a short hair Brindle SBT cross with a somekind of sausage dog, it was basically a large SBT head on a small long body with really short legs looked like a Corgi body and a long tail.
 
So weird, he was there for a good month but finally got adopted out. He was so funny to look at!!! []    

Aussie/Beagle.  He wasn't at all what you'd think.  The parentage was known and both parents were top notch and well bred - it was an accidental breeding between two champion show dogs and the mating was witnessed (too late, obviously).  The young dog I saw had the personality, voice, ears, and color of a beagle.  He had the long full coat, head, body type, and bounciness of the Aussie.  He was also gigantic though the Aussie parents were from a smallish line. But the Beagle sire was rather large as Beagles go, so apparently his Aussie genes picked up the "size" message from his Beagle sire and this dog was around 90 pounds!

Anyone that saw him not knowing his true parentage would have guessed Great Pyranees and maybe BC or Aussie - maybe.  Certainly you'd never in a million years see the Beagle.  Seeing him and knowing so much about his two parents taught me a lot about how crosses can work.  Size genetics, for instance, are very likely relative and not absolute - there's probably no genetics for "90 pounds and 24" tall" - just "grow to this relative potential".

I once saw a purebred lab that anyone would have guessed was a corgi or daschund mix. Dwarfism can affect any breed and will result in those stumpy legs.  Apparently it comes up pretty often in the retrievers, in particular, today.  Dwarfism can also be passed through bulldog parentage though we don't think of that breed as being stumpy-legged particularly.  Though historic bull fighting breed crosses dwarfism can also come from heeler/ACD blood.

One thing I've learned from looking at mixes with known parentage is that there's an awful lot we don't know about dog genetics even now!  []