Before my sister drives me absolutely batshit insane, here is a picture of a dog she is fostering named Bear:
She’d like to know what breeds you think he is, and if anyone in the Pittsburgh area is interested, please let me know.
NOW STOP TEXTING ME EVERY FIVE GOD DAMNED MINUTES TO POST ABOUT BEAR OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL LOSE IT.
vikram
Ah, another fine evening for the Cole family…:) Keep the hits coming…
BruceFromOhio
… backing away slowly…no sudden movements…no loud noises…
J.D. Rhoades
I’m thinking mutt.
peej
Too late. You’ve already lost it (whatever it is).
Joseph Nobles
I hate to see R sounds in a dog’s name. I think it sounds like we’re growling at them all the time. I’d rather see a dog named Boopy than Bear, even though on all other counts Bear would be the better name.
Spaghetti Lee
Boxer maybe? Or some sort of mastiff?
Mark S.
At least she isn’t texting you every five minutes to post about Tebow.
cathyx
She’s got you wrapped around her finger.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m seeing boxer with a lab’s ears?
kdaug
Have you found a home for Bear yet?
Have you found a home for Bear yet?
Have you found a home for Bear yet?
jl
Looks like it’s saying “Ruh roh!”, so if not mutt, then maybe scooby doo. or mutt times Scooby doo.
Except for the death ray laser beam eyes. Can’t remember what breeds have those.
Devon
You are a Jackass… Remind me not to do any menial housework or gardening or labor of any sort for you again… Xoxoxo
You Don't Say
Great Dane mix?
scav
@kdaug: Well, somebody understands siblings.
Calming Influence
Siberian Roo Hound.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
Agree with the Boxer look, otherwise lovable mutt variety.
Sandra
Baby Bear? Beautiful Bear? Big Bear?
Calming Influence
Tallahassee Terrier.
Calming Influence
Border Agent.
jl
Cole only has two small dogs and a fat white cat of incalculable mass.
If I were Cole’s sister I would drop it off ‘for a few minutes’ before I go on vacation for a month or two.
Cole will warm up to it, whatever it is.
More I look at it, the more I am thinking ‘swamp beast’.
Calming Influence
Pit Chihuahua.
kdaug
@scav: Got two sisters. Older and younger.
Believe me – I understand.
ETA: Let’s talk about long car trips, shall we?
amk
It’s a rott pup.
Joy in FL
The dog is so cute. Reminds me how my Great Dane looked. Maybe has some Dane in her.
Calming Influence
Snicker Doodle.
Come, help me out here; am I getting close?
jl
Enjoying myself thinking that that thing would do to the innards of Cole’s house.
Cole’s sister: I am thinking you owe your beloved bro a gift right about now.
Anya
Cole, you seem to not understand what brothers are for. They are on earth to be at their sisters’ peck and call.
Jess
Black Mouth Cur. Very popular in the South for hunting wild pigs. Looks just like my dog Remy, who’s BMC + Rhodesian Ridgeback. BMCs are great dogs–bred for work, intelligence and stability, not for prancing around show rings.
PeakVT
It’s puppy love.
Calming Influence
East Coast/ West Coast mix. Probably a little Jersey Shore as well.
Devon
@jl: this probably almost makes up for the time he dedicated “fat bottomed girls” to me on his radio show when I was in high school. Yeah…
BGinCHI
It’s definitely not a bear. I forwarded the pic to Werner Herzog and he concurs. Though he added a voiceover track that took an hour to explain it.
Jess
Google Black Mouth Cur and you’ll see; they have very distinctive faces.
Mnemosyne
We’re back from Phoenix. It was a little exhausting to have my parents’ attention laser focused on us for a whole weekend instead of having it divided among the group like at Christmas, but we survived. They apparently gave my dad Xanax to help him deal with the stress of constant dialysis, so I think that helped. He has portable oxygen so he can go to his carving club and hang out with his friends, so he’s still getting around. Driving with him was a little scary, though that was also because of the massive rainstorm and hail that we ended up getting caught in on our way to the mall.
Culture of Truth
What breed has glowing blue eyes?
jl
@Devon:
Looked at Wikipedia, and it does look like a Black Mouth Cur. Wikipedia says that they are good at herding cattle, so will help Cole with his goats while he is trying to get his generator working again.
And Wiki says they are clever too.
If the dog needs a home, just leave it off at borther Cole’s house and tell the dog it is his new home. Looks like it has the strength and wits to let itself in.
Edit: “he dedicated “fat bottomed girls” to me” Omigod! Why, that does not sound like the cole we know, does it?
You could always get revenge by submitting an interesting post about JGCole to the Fitness Club. Not that I would ever suggest doing a think like that.
jeff
That’s a pit plus something with longer legs. The ears make me think pit, though.
max
I inquired of the dog expert (and she is pretty expert here, what with working with small animals all day long) and she says Labrador-Boxer mix. I was thinking maybe 10 months, but she says she thinks he’s more about six months and he going to clock in around 60 pounds. He’ll be growing into those feet. (His head is pretty Labbish, but his coloring is solidly Boxer.) She says Lab-Boxer mix is common, so no surprises there.
max
[‘Best we can do here without a picture of him standing with partial side view.’]
Mnemosyne
Argh. May I be freed from moderation for the crime of using the actual name of a medication?
BGinCHI
@Devon: He obviously threw those stones from his glass house before he reached maximum density.
SRW1
Isn’t it obvious that she’s a Cole? Oh, you mean the dog! Sorry, no clue.
Devon
@jl: He is 4 1/2 mths. And he does look like a cur (I googled it as soon as it was mentioned), He is very snuggly but really athletic. I thought he was some sort of hound/ pitt mix because he is a sniffer.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Jess: I had not known anything about Blackmouth Curs until your post sent me to the google. What beautiful looking dogs. I just told my wife if we had one we’d never see a squirrel in our back yard again.
BGinCHI
Black Mouth Cur sounds like a Steve Earle side project.
BruceFromOhio
@Devon: …and then helped raise a a mess of scratch for MS150?
“Get on your bikes and ride!”
ps I don’t know you, but probably owe you an apology now.
Cute dog!
@SRW1: ROFL
piratedan
methinks he’s of the BFD branch of carniverous movementum… they are usually well dispositioned tho….
kdaug
@Devon:
You will rescue him off the roof though, right?
Impact crater, neighbor’s broken windows…
jl
@Devon:
Looks like a nice dog. Good luck.
Jess
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Remember Ol’ Yeller? He was a BMC (but not in the movie; they used a yellow lab for that).
Kay (no, not that one)
Is cute a breed?
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Jess: I read the book every year to my class and watch the movie. I know Yeller well. We rescued some completely fucked up and abused hound/lab mix in August. He is getting better, though. Barely. His name happens to be Yeller.
Rollotomasi
Rhodesian Ridgeback – characteristics – black snout and white patch on chest
Jess
@Old Dan and Little Ann: I tried to read the book as a kid, but couldn’t make it through knowing how sad the ending was going to be. I was a sensitive little wimp … but it sounds like your Yeller is going to have a happier ending!
Apparently BMCs are also discussed in “Big Thicket Legacy,” but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
Suffern ACE
I had a boxer-lab for 17 years and that is what that pictured dog is. Loved that dog. Nothing but trouble when it was young. Liked to get out of its pen and chase chickens, which did not make us very popular for awhile.
lamh35
U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and FDLE to probe Trayvon Martin killing.
Jess
@Rollotomasi: The face/head is a different shape though. I’ve been comparing BMCs and Ridgebacks a lot recently b/c my dog is a mix of the two as far as I can tell (I’m sure of the BMC, and 80% sure of the RR).
Dee Loralei
Cute dog, Devon, hope you find him a home. Geg lost her Henry a few weeks ago, she may not be ready yet, but she’s not far from Pburgh.
Dana Milbanks just had his dog on Lawrence, she’s a beauty. Not sure what she is either, some golden or lab/ poodle mix, I think.
gogol's wife
Okay, Devon needs her own blog. I’ll be reading.
Jess
@Devon: My BMC mix is also athletic/snuggly and a sniffer. They differ from hounds in that they scent the air as well as the ground. While they’re tough, hard-working dogs, they also tend to be mellow and calm around the house–a very nice trait!
jeffreyw
Screen savor
mb
imo: boxer/? mix
gogol's wife
@Jess:
I can’t believe such cute dogs are called “curs.”
David Koch
@lamh35: oNlY rUn pOlE HaS dA cOuRaGE tWo lEtS sTAtes rIghTS iNvEstIgAtE.
rUn pOLe/gLEeNn 2012
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
@jeffreyw:
LOL
clayton
This woman yapping on PBS about quilt scholarship sounds like Rosanne Barr but isn’t her and it’s freaking me out.
I wish I had a sister bugging me about a dog.
virginia penley
siblings are a pain in the ass. I have 1 out of 3 that are worth talking to at all.
if your sister is worth talking to, then do it.
if you just like the dog’s looks, then do it.
Punchy
Please stop encouraging Johnny to get more dogs when I strongly believe he needs to get more laids first.
Kristine
@Culture of Truth: Hound of the Baskervilles
Jess
@gogol’s wife: Yeah, but it’s not an insult; a “cur” is just a type of dog, a multipurpose farm dog bred for performance rather than to breed specifications. “Cur” became an insult b/c it’s basically a peasant dog, rather than an aristocratic hunting hound.
Calming Influence
I gotta say “Black Mouth Cur” is orders of magnitude better than anything I’ve offered (eh, big surprise), and has the added advantage of actually being a real breed. I’d advise Sister D. Cole to go with it and not look back.
A Humble Lurker
@Devon:
Hi Cole’s sister!! *waves*
YellowJournalism
If I’d read that two seconds earlier, Punchy, you’d owe me a phone.
jl
@Punchy:
” Please stop encouraging Johnny to get more dogs when I strongly believe he needs to get more laids first. ”
I was joking. Cole, don’t take the dog. It looks very trusting, large enough to enter Tunch’s awareness and contains mass quantities of flesh, and won’t have start up acceleration of Lily or Rosie.
Tunch will eat it.
BGinCHI
@Punchy: I hate to quote Scarface, because I think it’s a shitty movie, but:
“first we get the guns, then we get the money, then we get the women.”
Not sure where Cole is on his list yet.
slag
Your sister sounds awesome. This is the least you can do for her (and Bear), I’m sure.
jl
@BGinCHI:
“first we get the guns”
Not even that far yet. Still complaining about how his exercycle won’t don’t do no good. Sounds just like my mom.
YellowJournalism
If this had been Sarah Palin, you know it was intentional and Bill Maher would be sexist for pointing it out:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/mobile/story.html?id=6326064&cid=dlvr.it-twitter-edmontonjournal
amk
@YellowJournalism: Poor product placement ?
jl
@YellowJournalism:
I think that candidate should just change her name to Wild Rose. Would equal landside WIN, IHMO.
muddy
My dog Sawyer looks just like her. At a year and a half he is 75#. Vet said possible cross of English Mastiff and Boxer (he does like to get up and do the boxer play). But he looks just like the Cur, and may be just that
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He’s named for Sawyer on Lost, being that he is blond but with black whisker face.
Ben Cisco
@lamh35: Justice For Trayvon? | My Ready Room
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[…] Via Balloon Juice commenter lamh, news in the Trayvon Martin murder […]
sfinny
That is one adorable puppy. Looks like he really wants some one on one play time.
Martin
@Ben Cisco: Anyone think Attorney General Santorum in the Romney administration would be sending the civil rights division in?
Anne Laurie
@max:
That would be my guess, too also. (‘Part Lab’ is a good guess for any randombred over 25lbs, because there are just so many Labrador Retrievers running around unfixed & undersupervised. But that’s a Lab head, yeah.) Could be a Black Mouth Cur, especially if he / his pregnant momma came from a high-kill Southern shelter, but that’s not a breed name to attract attention on Petfinder IMO. If he stays leggy, change his name to Scooby and cross your fingers a would-be Shaggy surfs the adoption list…
Yutsano
Just had a visit from a plumber investigating a leak. He determined it was coming from one unit above, but now my wall and carpet are beautifully water damaged. And all I can think is the plumber is cute. Help, I needz it.
Ben Cisco
@Martin: To harass the family and others for complaining, perhaps…
Larkspur
@Yutsano: Hello, it’s just as easy to fall in love with a plumber-type person than any other sort of person. I think that’s what my mom told me, although it could have been “rich” rather than “plumber”. Wait. Where do you live? Please don’t say “Watergate”, because then I think we’re into G.Gordon Liddy territory, which would need moar halp than I can offer.
Also, definitely Lab, maybe some Belgian Malinois too.
TaMara (BHF)
I agree with everyone who says Dane mix. If I could see the feet better – there is no disguising Dane feet and most mixes I’ve met have Dane feet. So Dane-Boxer, Dane-Lab.
Age and weight would help assess. If it’s older than 6 mos and anything under 90lbs, then I take back the Dane mix idea.
Anne Laurie
@Jess:
That may be a form of short-term ‘convergent evolution’. Rhodesian Ridgebacks were developed by crossing mastiff-type fighting dogs with faster, leggier sighthounds for speed and ‘prey drive’, the impulse to chase anything that runs. Looks like Black Mouth Curs were developed by crossing tall, fast foxhounds with heavier-boned bloodhounds and/or bulldogs. And Great Danes — who are officially sighthounds, scenting the air with their heads up instead of sniffing the ground — were developed to fight wild boars, crossing mastiffs with greyhounds. Obviously quite a few people living under similar conditions widely separated in time & space had the same requirements for a ‘homestead dog’. The RR people I’ve known have been quite fussy about their “brand”, though — if your dog doesn’t have the hair-growing-in-the-wrong-direction backbone crest, they’d never let you claim ‘part RR’ without an argument!
David Koch
@Martin: bARRY iZ wARST dEN hItLer
pAUL/cENk 2012
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
This ought to be interesting. The panty sniffing god botherers are taking to the streets next week to argue for whatever it is they are arguing for. Often it is wrapped in all sorts of pretty paper, and you have to dig some to get to the truth on what they are up to. Like this
It’s always the definitions to what some law or regulation gets to/ Want to circumvent, just change the definition. But this is still murky and vague as to intent for all this stupid shit on contraception.
It is the fungibility card they are playing to eventually get to the guilty tax payer dollar that pays for government shit they don’t like. And eventually, all tax dollars are guilty for paying for shit that we don’t like. So ipso facto, the activity of record for their dismay, in this case contraception, can only be free from their tax dollars paying for contraceptions, if no tax money is spent on anything remotely attached to birth control
abortionby 6 degrees of separation, or less.And finally, the onion is peeled to it relevant core. All it takes is “moral convictions” to not respect the law. They want a zone of doing what they want, by simply claiming it is against their religion. Even if what they don’t like is done by others, ESPECIALLY, if it done by other. A power grab with baby jeevus as cover. Luckily for us, the founders knew all about this kind of nonsense, and gave us two way freedom from religion and freedom for religion.
Violet
Looks like there’s some Boxer in Bear. Cute dog. I love that John’s sister comments on his blog. Love the stories.
TaMara (BHF)
So I went looking at Black Mouth Cur (what a horrible name). Amazing how much they look like Danes, at least in photos.
See for yourself:
Which is which?
Anne Laurie
@David Koch: Okay, you’ve beaten that joke-shaped object well beyond death — it is now indistinguishable particles at the bottom of a deep hole. Climb out & find something less stale.
Jebediah
@Yutsano:
Does he play for your team?
scav
@Yutsano: I’d say Enjoy the temporary softening effect of the plumbers’ influence on your eventual reaction to the state of your formerly dry wall. If you’re seeing beautiful water damage, I’d say that’s one significantly powerful cute plumber.
Jebediah
As for the dog, he is beautiful, I am in love, and if it turns out “Pittsburgh” is near Culver City, CA I will be starting a full-court press on the wife about how great a third dog would be.
lamh35
I don’t care call me a Michelle-Obot, but I just love FLOTUS @MichelleObama. She was gr8 on #Letterman! If you missed FLOTUS on David Letterman tonight try to find the video. It was a good interview.
freelancer
Any regular readers of Gin and Tacos take note. Ed needs help, he can’t figure out what it is about his writing and what he contributes that makes him remarkable. Lend him your ear.
Anne Laurie
@TaMara (BHF): Like I said: breed convergence, because the people who developed the Black-Mouth Cur wanted the same kind of ‘all purpose’ homestead dog their Northern European ancestors were looking for when they first developed the Great Dane.
But you can tell that the Great Dane breeders have had longer to ‘stabilize’ their lines, because the ACK specs for Danes are a lot less expansive than “Weight: 45-95 pounds (20–43 kg.); Height: 16-25 inches (40–64 cm.); Coat: Some heavy, some light”…
zombie rotten mcdonald
Looks just like our Lucy, which we decided was pretty much a purebred BMC. We figure she was dumped by a puppy mill because she has a spray of white markings across the snout, when the breed is ‘supposed’ to have pure black.
BMCs are good dogs, patient, and REALLY smart but be warned — as one site said, ‘this dog needs to run — HARD’ And Lucy does run incredibly hard. Amazing to watch her split across the dog park at full speed. Only really really fast dogs, like greyhounds, can keep up.
And yes, she will hunt small critters.
Anya
@lamh35: Damn! I missed it. Also, too, who doesn’t love Michelle.
Jess
@TaMara (BHF): First one’s the BMC–as I said, they have a very distinctive face once you get familiar with it…
@Anne Laurie:
Well, the ridge tends to disappear in mixes, so I’m not going by that. No one really knows the origin of the Southern curs. They’re older than most breeds, which were mostly developed in the 19th century. The best theory I’ve come across is that they’re descended from the Spanish Mastiffs and greyhounds that came over with the Conquistadors, and the indigenous Native American/Carolina dogs of the South, and then mixed with whatever cur-type dogs were brought over with the early settlers. They’re pretty much just generic “dog” at this point, but bred for specific skills and temperament. RRs are also considered “cur-type” dogs by many, bred from similar types of dogs (including indigenous African dogs) for similar purposes. They’re also being used in the South for hog hunting, so a BMC + RR is not as unusual down there as one would think. I’m guessing Remy is part RR b/c he has the long legs, deep chest, and tucked-up belly of the RR, and is taller and less “beefy” than most of the BMCs I’ve seen.
As you can no doubt tell, I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with dog evolution! Especially the breeds that revert back to “basic dog,” like Carolina Dogs (aka American Dingos).
InsaneCaliCat
Bear ain’t nuthin’ but a hound dog.
Yutsano
@Jebediah: More than likely not. But this is Seattle, which has the second highest urban gay population in the US. And no ring on finger. But he was working. I wasn’t about to interrupt.
@scav: It’s the conversation with my landlady that will get interesting. Especially since I have no responsibility for the damage. But I may still have to pitch in to replace the carpet. Which I was going to do anyway. This just accelerates matters.
Anne Laurie
@Jess:
See, a deep chest and a strong tuck with long legs would say Great Dane to me — it’s the Greyhound in their ancestry, but of course there’s supposed to be Greyhound in the RR background as well. (And of course the ‘primitive dog’ lines like Basenjis and the New Guinea singing dogs have the same structure, but at half- or quarter-size.)
Justin
I say ridgeback. adopted what I thought was an abandoned coonhound, but kept growing and growing and growing. finally decided/determined he was a ridgeback, sans ridge, which is probably why he got abandoned in the first place.
MattR
I owe Jimmy Fallon an apology. I was thoroughly convinced he made up the fact that there was a book titled “If God Loves Me, Why Can’t I Get My Locker Open?”. In retrospect, I should have known better.
Jess
@Anne Laurie: Yeah, I wondered about the Great Dane possibility, but he’s really not that big, and has a more delicate leg and head bone structure–a bit more delicate than a pure BMC. I was actually wondering about the greyhound possibility as well, but his body is so close to that of an RR (or a Vizla, but taller), and as I said they’re more common in hog-hunting country than I would have expected. He’s about 28 inches at the shoulder, but only about 70 lbs. All legs and muscle, beautiful to watch running and bounding through the woods. Gracefully leaps over his 40″ high dog gate from a standing start.
Villago Delenda Est
My guess is a great dane crossed with a hell hound (those eyes!) with a bit of plain old ordinary mutt thrown in.
jurassicpork
Sometimes Lightning Does Strikes Twice. Please help a fellow liberal blogger stave off eviction in 2 weeks.
Jess
@Anne Laurie: Remy has body just like this and a face like this.
Not sure if the links worked…we’ll see!
Martin
@MattR: That book never would have drawn me in. I never had trouble with my locker. I would have needed “If God Loves Me, Why Can’t I Fuck Elizabeth from French Class?”
I doubt that one got written.
Calming Influence
What is Bear? He’s a dog. Maybe the worst thing to happen to modern dogs was breeding for “look” rather than temperament/intelligence. True working dogs like Border Collies have managed to avoid most of the inbreeding problems, but all this focus on what “breed” Bear is just encourages this mindset. In my field (genetics) almost everyone I know has a mix or a mutt; that should tell us something. (I’ve got cats – their breed is “dominant”.)
Citizen_X
jl:
To be fair, Tunch only seems that way to us because he’s moving at near-light speed in our inertial reference frame.
lovable liberal
Dogged and hounded about a hound dog. Ayup.
Anne Laurie
@Jess:
Well, the standing-start levitation trick is pure sighthound! — don’t know if you’ve ever seen lure coursing, but remember that Afghan Hounds, Borzois, Deerhounds and Wolfhounds, as well as Great Danes, were actually bred to scramble over broken terrain at high speeds. They may look ‘dainty’ in the beauty-show publicity photos, but it’s an Olympic-marathoner sort of sinewy long-muscle structure…
mikej
Patagonian cheese hound.
kdaug
@Martin:
There’s still time, and you seem to be a reasonably good writer.
Free market, and all that.
ETA: The book, not Elizabeth.
Alison
@lamh35: I’m on the west coast and will be watching in about half an hour :) And I give serious side-eye to anyone who doesn’t like her, because seriously? How can you not, unless you are a huge asshole? She rocks.
kdaug
@mikej:
No, that’s me.
Yutsano
@kdaug: You’re Patagonian? That’s kinda awesome.
kdaug
@Yutsano:
Oh, I misread.
I’m a Pavlovian Cheese Hound.
Nom-nom.
Martin
@kdaug: Well, Elizabeth eventually came around. I just needed to be patient – something I wasn’t at the time, but I don’t regret my extra year of French. I still needed the book.
Are there any FSM daily affirmation books? Perhaps there’s a market for one.
John M. Burt
@Martin: An FSM daily affirmation book. Hmmmm. Spaghetti and Meatballs For the Soul? No, that’s not it, try again int he morning.
max
@Anne Laurie: That would be my guess, too also. (‘Part Lab’ is a good guess for any randombred over 25lbs, because there are just so many Labrador Retrievers running around unfixed & undersupervised. But that’s a Lab head, yeah.)
Well now I’ve gone and looked at the UKC specs for the lab, the BMC and so on and honestly, from the specs, the Lab and the BMC are physically so close together as to make me wonder if the Lab came first and the BMC is an halfbreed offshoot – that is, the BMC’s that actually seeded the breed spec. (I have seen plenty of BMCs before but never knew they were spec’d as a breed.)
If he stays leggy, change his name to Scooby and cross your fingers a would-be Shaggy surfs the adoption list…
Yeah. I’m not really seeing Dane here (but a BMC/Lab cross would do the trick) but given the size of his feet I don’t think the lack of Dane would hinder him in the ginourmous department. Definitely going to be eating some furniture.
(And of course the ‘primitive dog’ lines like Basenjis and the New Guinea singing dogs have the same structure, but at half- or quarter-size.)
Random: a pretty solid argument that Indonesian pariah dogs (singing dogs are group members) are the ancestors of Dog, if you haven’t read the linked post.
max
[‘Don’t take him John, he’s too big for the other two!’]
MomSense
Bear looks like a smaller version of my childhood dog Beauregard, a German Shepherd St. Bernard mix.
He had the same coloring, dark snout, white on the chest. He was just a lot bigger.
Wonkie
We get dogs like that pup into our rescue all the time. Around here a dog like would not be BMC because we don’t have them here! Our dogs that look like the pup are mastiff mixes, maybe part lab or part boxer or pitbull.
Different localities tend to develop different local mixed breed mutts based on whatever the most common purebreds are in the area.
Jess
@max:
Probably not–they’re bred for very different purposes, and they’re not so similar up close. Also, I don’t know when Labs became an official breed, but the Southern curs have been around for centuries.
mrspeel
Judging from the size of the paws I’d guess s/he’s a combination of Great Dane with a skosh of Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Kathleen Gustafson
Bear looks identical to my dog – in color, markings,and size. Everyone always asks me if he’s a Rhodesian Ridgeback. He’s not. Yodel is a mix of pit bull and a blond lab.
brantl
@Anya: Did you mean beck and call, or did you really mean peck and call. I have 4 sisters, and 1 brother, and peck and call might be closer to the truth.
yoodow
So why not stop the speculation and get the dog DNA tested?
My dog was identified by the rescue and multiple veterinarians as an American bulldog mix. We did a DNA test on him and it turns out that he is a Rottweiler / Bull Terrier Mix crossed with Norfolk Terrier / Cardigan Welsh Corgi Mix
asiangrrlMN
You’re good bro, Cole. Bear is so cute.
@Devon: Bear is a doll. Keep on your brother’s ass until Bear gets adopted.