Recalling numerous posts about you never know what you're going to get when you cross two different dog breeds - personality wise or looks wise...well, the "looks wise" bit was certainly brought home to me the other day...

Out with my 3 Staffs, met this woman with what looked like a massive black Flatcoat, but clearly not a pure one - asked her what it's breeding was and she replied: Irish Setter x German Shepherd - WHAT??  How on earth did it end up looking like an overgrown FC?  She said nobody ever believes her when she tells them what it's parent were, I'm not surprised!  It was a lovely dog however and beautifully friendly and happy and she clearly adores it.

But for anyone who decides to breed two different types of dog, it just goes to show, you never know what you're going to get!

So what's the most surprising breeding you've encountered when meeting a crossbreed?

Border Collie X Basset Hound

Body, head and legs of Basset Hound with coat of a Border Collie!

Golden Retriever X Dacshund

Bascially a GR (size as well) with stumpy legs!

my friend had a irish setter x b.collie that looked like a BLACK "goldie"

Jack russell x labrador

body and head of lab , legs of JRT

i saw a very scruffy dog the other day that looked like a tibetan terrier cross, it was (apparently) pure yorkie! whoops!

My BIL has a border collie X basset...looks like a BC with  short 'queen ann' legs!!
Archer

Has to be the Afghan x Corgi called Poppy who looked just like an Afghan with its legs cut off.  Still all the long hair and the elegant head just very little legs

Once saw a "flatcoat"...except it was a border collie X Black lab!!!!

Rhodesian Ridgeback x dachshund. It looked like a largish smooth black daxie with a ridge.

Yikes, can't believe some of the crosses you've seen ie Ridgeback x dachsund??  Physically, how??  Poor dogs...you can only hope these sorts of crosses really were genuine mistakes.

Corgi x border collie?  I'm not sure  if you can get a corgi with markings and clolour same as border collie.  If you can I'm sorry all you corgi owners.  Corgi's not my breed.

Body and legs of corgi head and coat colour/markings of border collie.

Just one question but why do most crosses seem to have border collie in it somewhere?

not a cardingan <sp?>corgi then?

yep lots off collie crosses, trying to improve intelligence maybe? (i will duck now while i get hit by everybody!!!)

The dachshund was the sire! I knew the woman who had the RR mother and her pup.
:)

Looking back now the worst possible crossbreed I have encountered was my first dog, I was 4-5 when we got him.  He was a dalmatian x afghan.  The lady who owned the dalmatian was absolutely devestated.  Basically what had happened the binmen had left her side gate open and she let her dalmatian out and this afghan was roaming, she caught the two of them but it was too late.  Whisky (our dog) however just looked like pippin off the telly!!!! The lady ended up being my cousins MIL and now looking back if she knew then what she knows now the couple with the afghan would have got more than they did at the time.  When the pups where born though they all ended up going to members of my family so at least they all had long happy lives.  My nannas dog Tina was the only bitch of the litter and died at the grand old age of 19.

Michelle

Amazing how many of these crosses are Collie crosses. My own family foisted some Cocker/Collie crosses on the world once and they looked like nothing on earth, the cocker dam was a Gold the sire the usual black & White the pups were Lab size totally black with the strangest conformation, thin noses and domed heads and unpredictable temperaments.

EBT x Wolfhound - it looked like - no recognisable breed :D

An ex of mine had an Irish Setter x English Springer bitch.   She was jet black except for a white flash on her chest, small setter size, very hairy too.

Have seen a Ridgeback x Wei cross.    Jet black with ridges, more RR shape than Wei.

One of my dogs was a lab / terrier cross or at least thats what the RSPCA assured me he was at 8 weeks old.  BUT he grew bigger and bigger into the most handsome German Shephard there ever was!! He must have had 1% of terrier and lab in him and 99 % of GS in him.

Thats a lurcher, ive seen them at shows :)

Don't know what my childhood dog was crossed with, but he looked like a perfect yellow lab in miniature.

That post went in the wrong place, I meant the Bull Terrier x wolfhound is a lurcher :)

Our first dog was from a colliexalsation(the colour of 'lassie' no black in her) and they think a ?lab or retriever(Dad was a stray :( ),but she looked like a black spaniel lovely temperment and lived to 14.
Jacqueline