Do you think she is purebred?

Her head seems a bit more elongated than the APBTs I've met - she almost looks like a pit/lab or pit/hound to me.

If she has APBT in her, she's probably crossed with Lab or Hound.  She looks to me like she might be a Lab crossed with a hound.  She's a pretty little thing, but I can't see her being pure APBT.  I love the shape of her head, it's got a really houndy feel to it, maybe widened a bit in an APBT fashion.  If I were to decide on a mix for her, I'd call her a APBT/Coonhound mix. 

Judging by how long her face is, I'd say Pit/Lab.  

Definitly not pure Pit. She lacks the substance of a pit and doesn't have the broad chest that a Pit would.

The rescue she came from said she was a pit bull. I think the only reason they think that is because she is brindle. She looks nothing like a pit to me and my first guess was a lab/hound mix. I just wanted to see what others thought. Her fur feels very lab like and I think if she were colored differently people would think she is a lab mix but around here everyone who sees brindle thinks pit. What other breeds similiar in size to her can be brindle? I would love for her to be labled something else that can explain the brindling because then she will be much easier to find a home for. She is 43 lbs but is really thin right now. Her ribs, backbone, and hips are protruding. I think she will be about 50 lbs at a healthy weight. Thanks for any suggestions that might help her find a new home.

She could very well be a lab/plott hound mix. Plott hounds are brindle and from her looks it seems perfectly reasonable.

If she is part pit, I don't think she's enough pit for people to be turning her down for it.  I would guess no more than 50% pit max, but even that could be a stretch.  Her head is too long, her body seems to lanky.  She doesn't have the solid tone and chest of a true pit.  I mean, look at this pit for comparison, look at it's chest and body structure:


I'm no expert on breeds by any means, but Boxers, Dutch Shepherds, Plott Hounds, Whippets, Grey Hounds, Boston Terriers, Bulldogs, French Bulldogs, Basenjis, Great Danes, etc can all be brindle.

I would consider her temperament and behaviors relative to how the breeds generally act to help with indentification.  So many times our shelter has labeled a Border Collie mix a "lab/spaniel" mix in order to explain the black but longer hair.  Two minutes in the dog run and it's so obvious the dog is a Border Collie or BC mix by how it acts and moves.

ORIGINAL: houndlove

She could very well be a lab/plott hound mix. Plott hounds are brindle and from her looks it seems perfectly reasonable.

i agree, possibly plott/pit/lab. or just a working bred pit bull, which will usually have some hound in it anyway. commonly called Curs, they're used for tracking and holding hogs.
Then again i still agree with Houndlove. certainly not purebred if they mean to the standard.. not in the slightest. too leggy.
not enough chest, her head is narrow, and i cant tell but her hips dont seem very wide either. she also looks very long in the back.
HOWEVER here is a curve ball for you.
she COULD be a German Shepherd American Bulldog mix.
I say this because i knew someone who had a litter of half and half. pure bred parents. the pups looked a lot like this when grown.

Here's Meshach, rescued from the fiery furnace

Thanks for the thoughts. She looks nothing like Bo, but Bo pretty much fits breed standards. Tyson, I know is pure APBT (ADBA papers) but I don't think he was very well bred due to his narrow chest and what I suspect aren't the best hips. (His back end is very stiff when he gets up from laying down and he just turned a year old plus he starts to limp a little when he runs too much) He body structure is similiar to Tyson's except she is smaller. Its really her head that doesn't fit to me. Her ears seem pretty close to Bo's but the line of her face is just different. Her nose is more tapered and her brow slopes more. When I first saw her I thought she looked like a hound. Her face just seems so petit to me. Her skull just doesn't have the mass to it that my other dogs do. I don't know. The reason we want to label her as something besides a pit mix is because the city here has BSL and while I am lucky enough to live outside of the limits it makes it harder to find a good home that is also out of the limits. To get around the ban here we just have to be able to show a reasonable breed mix to account for her characteristics that don't include pit. She has no dog aggression, no food aggression and no human aggression to make someone afraid of her. I think I will call her a plott hound mix as it seems to fit. I hope she can find a good home.

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she looks enough like a plott to pass her off as purebred, me thinks. pits arent the only brindle dogs. i wish BSL supporters would THINK about that for a second.

I think her legs are too long and thin to be a pit bull, and her head is quite elongated. I agree with hound mix.

I just noticed that she also has webbed feet. I doubt there is any pit in her at all.

ORIGINAL: Liesje

  She doesn't have the solid tone and chest of a true pit.  I mean, look at this pit for comparison, look at it's chest and body structure:


I'm no expert on breeds by any means, but Boxers, Dutch Shepherds, Plott Hounds, Whippets, Grey Hounds, Boston Terriers, Bulldogs, French Bulldogs, Basenjis, Great Danes, etc can all be brindle.

Also Mountain Curs can be brindle. My grandfather has one and he looks similar to yours.

Catahoula Leaopard Dogs also come in brindle and have the webbed feet and average about 50 pounds. Judging by her ears & thick coat she doesn't look like a true 'houla, so houla/lab mix is also a possibility. Or even boxer/lab mix. She may have gotten the wide head of a boxer, with the longer nose of a lab.