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The doghouse

Can anyone tell me what breed these dogs were please?

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Ponders · 02/07/2011 22:07

I saw them in a parked car (late afternoon, not hot!) the other day - 2 of them - both were

small-medium size
light sandy fur
pricked ears
pale blue eyes

Having googled I think they had a look of husky about them, but were much smaller.

TIA

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Takver · 08/07/2011 18:34

I'm wondering if they were a podenco/husky cross? Or possibly a long haired podenco? (long haired one here)

They're pretty common where we used to live in Spain, but our lovely husky x podenco (probably also x alsatian, but he looks like a husky/podenco) always turns heads now we're in Britain (usually comments along the lines of "what is that dog???"). He definitely has very upright ears.

I love this description, btw, from the website I linked to "He is a harmonious, compact, very coarse and well vertical dog."

missymoola · 07/07/2011 13:33

Were they These? They sometimes have blue eyes

HeavyHeidi · 07/07/2011 13:05

Probably a husky cross - not that many breeds have blue eyes - even though there were 2 of them. I have 2 mutts from same litter as well and get the "oooh what breed is that?" daily.

MotherJack · 04/07/2011 18:57

Did you read the thread 7seas? It's because they weren't there.

7Seas · 04/07/2011 16:03

fuck me! Why didn't you stop and ask the question to the sodding owner???!!!!!

misdee · 04/07/2011 15:57

yes, this morning :) and i thought of this thread.

Coca · 04/07/2011 13:59

actually

Coca · 04/07/2011 13:58

No, were they featured? I am sactually sad enough to have spent time googling "dogs that look like foxes"

misdee · 04/07/2011 12:12

coca did u watch dog 101 this morning?

Coca · 04/07/2011 12:09

New Guinea Singing Dog?

ColdHandLou · 03/07/2011 20:31

Maybe you'll see them again, with their owners next time

Ponders · 03/07/2011 19:02

nope, neither of those, Lou - thanks anyway!

Have just told DS1 (who was with me) that nobody knows what they are!!! & he said "they were foxes" (clearly they weren't - but they did have foxy faces!)

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ColdHandLou · 03/07/2011 18:56

Or maybe these? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schipperke

ColdHandLou · 03/07/2011 18:55

These? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Klee_Kai

Ponders · 03/07/2011 18:05

'They acquired their name because some of the Australian sheepdogs arrived in the United States with boatloads of Australian sheep' - OK, that makes sense

Chunky long-haired Border Collies, yes, exactly! (shame about the tails though )

Even though I still don't know what my Tesco car park dogs were this thread has been very educational!

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alice15 · 03/07/2011 18:01

Yes, silly, isn't it? Stick "Australian Shepherd" into Google and you will come up with loads of links, I'm sure. Developed in California in the 19th century, I think.

Ponders · 03/07/2011 17:58

oh sorry, I meant they look like German Shepherds, but are Aussie, hence German Aussie Shepherds. (Hadn't googled Aussie Shepherds, didn't know they existed!)

(just a minute! Aussie Shepherds are a Californian breed???)

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misdee · 03/07/2011 15:03

kelpies are herding dogs

alice15 · 03/07/2011 12:13

No, kelpies aren't Australian Shepherds - Aussie Shepherds are a Californian breed that look like heavily built Border Collies and (used to be) docked.

I don't know what your dogs were either, but I suspect something husky-ish or collie x - ish, as blue eyes are much commoner in those types of dogs. The ears sound extraordinary!

Ponders · 03/07/2011 10:27

oooh, kelpies are German Australian Shepherds!

they are sort-of like, but ears are too far apart again. The ones I saw - I should have said this at the start instead of just "pricked ears" - had vertical pointy ears, with hardly any gap between, right on top of their heads. (And the unnervingly starey light blue eyes...)

They weren't pups but they could have been adolescents I suppose - maybe the ears would move further apart as they got older.

(I wish now I'd hung around until their people came back - but it was a big Tesco car park, they could have been hours.)(Or taken a photo. Damn)

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misdee · 03/07/2011 10:17

misdee · 03/07/2011 10:16

kelpies?

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Elibean · 03/07/2011 10:10

I had a basenji cross (probably lab-basenji). His eyes weren't blue, and his ears flopped over, and he was a total dustbin where snacks were concerned: that was the lab part

But he was fox coloured, small/medium sizsed, his tail curved up over his back a bit, he licked his paws to wash them, and he was a 'talker' extraordinaire.

I would love another basenji cross

Ponders · 03/07/2011 09:48

The Spitz & Pharaoh hound are both the right colour but the wrong build

Basenji is very like although its ears are set further apart. I wonder if it might be a basenji-husky cross?

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sununu · 03/07/2011 09:05

Basenji?

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