Primabella, we aren't quite sure what sort of mix Guinness is. The vet thinks chow and sheperd mix. Well, I definitely think chow, cause he is sort of orangey colored, has black spots on his tongue and the curled tail. He is on the small side for being crossed with a sheperd I think, cause he's only 37 pounds and he's two years old. However, sometimes I think his growth was stunted by lack of nutrition in first year.

I mean, if whomever had him before us didn't care enough to clean out his ears (he initially had a buildup almost to the point of having a hearing problem) and thought "Oh, I'm getting evicted, so I should just move out and leave the dog here!", do I really believe they would've bought him good healthy food? Nope, I don't think so. This is mostly my theory of his earlier life anyway, provided by one of my friends who found him as a stray. She knows her crappy neighborhood better than I do.