Kiki's Breed?? *pics*

[Kfamr]

I was wondering what everyone thought what breeds Kiara has in her. Of course, it does not matter - she is 100% cute to me. I've had so many guesses though...

Beagle mix, Black & Tan Coonhound mix, Rottie mix, Dobie mix, etc.

Her paper said Rott mix. She weighs around 40-50 lbs (Depending on how much swimming she does!) but, she is TINY! She is highly active and tennis ball, frisbee, fetching obsessive! LOVES water.

Here are some puppy pictures of her...





And some of her today:
Her markings on neck/chest/tummy. *Edited to add* I also noticed she has a slight dark brown tint in her tain. It REALLY shows in sunlight. Almost like a chocolate color.




Soo.. what breeds do you see?

[luvofallhorses]

I do see rottie in her and dobie and a little of hound. (she could be a black and tan coonhound, dobie, rottiie mix.. Whatever she is, she's a VERY pretty girl!!

[caseysmom]

She definetely has the rottie coloring but not the body type at all, she looks like she is mixed with a thinner less stocky breed, not sure what. Like you said she is 100 percent cute.

She may not have any rottie in her at all, besides the coloring I don't see rottie at all. Maybe a dobie, greyhound mix...

[Alysser]

I see dobermen. I thought she was a purebred dobermen with natural ears!! She may be coonhound a little.

[CagneyDog]

All I know is that she's 100% Adorable Mutt.

[buttercup132]

I'm thinking because shes got the Rottie marking but not the body maybe a Dobie would be the mix and something that has white in them...hmmm. Oh wait I just read Tango's mommies post (I see where the white comes from now)

[Suki Wingy]

Kiara has always stumped me! Somehow I don't see any of those breeds in her, but all of the thoroughly mixed dogs I have seen loose the color black and are almost always tanish. The webbed feet is a clue though, but at the moment I can't really think of any webbed breeds that might fit what she is.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I'd say maybe Doberman/Whippet? I'd say she's probably too small to be Doberman/Greyhound but she has a rather petite frame like a whippet, and her tail reminds me of Adele's (she's half greyhound). She's very pretty.

[dappledoxie]

He muzzle reminds me a lot of a rottie but everything else shouts dobie to me, she looks quite a bit like my friend's gal Matrix, who is a dobie/rottie cross and a very very smart girl as well, but she's larger in size than Kiara. Both lovely ladies

[Cincy'sMom]

This picture really makes her look part Dobie

[Giselle]

Is that merling or just the sun shine? If it's merling/merle patches, I REALLY think she could be a Dobe/Catahoula/Whippet mix.


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(Natural eared Dobe for better reference...)
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I see some type of sighthound due to her delicate build and slightly arched back/noticeable tuck-up.

Edited to add: Now that I see her head and the comparisons between the Dobe and Catahoula, I have to say that that may be her mix. Many dobes have very delicate builds due to their ancestry (Greyhounds), so she may or may not have Whippet in her. That would explain her size, however. Catahoulas are rather large dogs and tend to range from 55 pounds and more. The smallest females should range around 20" at the withers.

[K9soul]

One of my favorite things to do sometimes is go to Dogster and use the advance search feature to see what different breed combos look like. I've tried to figure out what else may be in Tasha before because supposedly her mom was GSD/greyhound and her dad was unknown, however I just cannot get any clues. She looks VERY similar to GSD/greyhound and GSD/whippet mixes I looked at.

Anyway, I tried a few different combos seeing if I could come up with anything similar to Kiara. One thing I noticed in almost all the rottie mixes there was the very distinct, blocky, mastiff/rottie type head on them, so I just honestly don't think she is a rottie mix, or if she is that it is way back in her lineage. I always thought that as a pup, she reminded me so much of a coonhound pup I helped rescue a few years back, so I did a search on coonhound mixes.

Here is a dobie/coonhound mix




Here is a coonhound/unknown pup


Dobie/beagle mix




Dobie/unknown



Ok I better quit playing around with that instead of working, but I think it's fascinating. She really could be any number of mixes, but one thing is for sure, she's pure precious!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Is that merling or just the sun shine? If it's merling/merle patches, I REALLY think she could be a Dobe/Catahoula/Whippet mix.

She doesn't have to ahve any sort of merle in her to be part Catahoula, actually. Catahoula's come in a lot of colours which includes blk/tan, red/tan etc. I think they can be solid coloured aswell, but I'm not sure

[wolf_Q]

I really don't see rottweiler, I still think the coloring comes more likely from black and tan coonhound, maybe dobie, I'd think that over rottie. One of my old co-workers had a black and tan and she reminds me of Ki, the way she barks, holds her tail, etc. as well as the "speckled" kind of tan/black fur she has on her belly, behind her ears, etc. (you know what I'm talking about. ) As to what else I have no idea, some smaller breed (she really is a lot smaller than she looks in pictures!), most likely she's a mix bred with a mix who knows.....all I know is she is 100% adorable.

[cyber-sibes]

I've always wondered if Ki had some dobie in her, because of her size & shape. You've noticed that her coloring is just like my Rosie's - black, tan, white on chest, and Rosie was definitly part rotti, you could tell by her build, plus she was like 70 lbs. KiKi is so much finer boned, though, and doesn't have a rotti head at all. And the way that girl takes to water, well, ya gotta wonder if there isn't a bit of lab in her somewhere.