Best Mixed Breed you have owned.

[Yvette]

Mine was a hound/terrier. Cozmo was given to me by my exs friend.
Actually to De'ja when she was 6 months old. Last pup to go.
Cozmo was very gentle around De'ja. We had her for 1 1/2 yrs.
I still don't know what had happened to her. My guess is a very controling/jealous ex took her for a one way ride one morning.
I searched everywhere & put up flyers. I have pictures of her somewhere.

[Castlemaid]

This is William, Owner surrender, adopted from the Shelter at One and a Half years old. My very first dog ever, and a wonderful dog for such a clueless owner as I was. He lived to be 15years old.



He loved everybody, loved all other dogs. Came with the name of William, and had such a quiet, ferocious dignity about him, that even though many people tried to call him Bill, it never stuck. He was a William. He oozed so much personality, and was such a perfect, gentlemen, that all day long, strangers commented : I don't like dogs, but I like YOUR dog!

Or: My dog doesn't like other dogs, but he likes YOUR dog!

It was true that he got along with even dog agressive dogs. Big dogs that would just as likely take a chunk out of other dogs were play-bowing and rollin on their backs for William to the utter amazement of their owners.

William was also a protector of small animals, puppies and small dogs. If a scared or submissive dog was being picked on, William stepped in and chased the other dogs away. People said I should get him a Blue Beret, he was he NATO Peacekeeper of Dogs.

At 9 years old, people thought he was 9 months old. In the picture above he was about 11 or 12.

He was a climber and an escape artist. He opened windows and escaped. Escaped from commercial boarding kennels: Climbed the chain-link fence or figured out how to open the door to his kennel, but I had trained him to stay in the car even if the windows were down.

When he was 8 I started him as a therapy dog. I taught him tricks to entertain the seniors we visited, and taught him to play the piano. He was a real hit when I visited the geriatric hospital, people would all perk up and talk non-stop about the piano playing dog.
It was so funny to see him, he sure made people laugh.

The biggest miracle William brought about is that he unlocked from my autistic frozen self a host of real and human feelings and a deeper understanding of love, (unconditional love - I had no understanding of this), patience, and self-esteem. He brought me out of a stinking cold dungeon into the sunshine. It is hard to comprehend what intergalactic distances I have traveled in personal growth all due to the love of a shelter dog.

I still get all teary-eyed when I think about him, but I know that he is happy where he is now. Deliriously happy, and even though I made many mistakes with him, I know he is happy and grateful to have been in my life.

Both William and Keeta are giving my life meaning and definition.

[arycrest]

Originally Posted By: Arycrest Bo was a true mutt though I'm sure he had a WGSD somewhere in his gene pool mix.
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I already posted about him, but I thought I'd share a picture of Bo. I "think" this was taken the summer of 2005 when he was somewhere around 10 to 13 years old. He always had a smile on his face!

[Marshmallows]

For me that would be Spot an Australian Shepherd mix. She was smart, loyal and gentle unless one of her kids were threatened.
Us kids would go "camping" in the neighbor's yard during the summer and no matter what my parents did to try to keep her home I would always wake up with Spot guarding the front door of the tent.

[LARHAGE]

The BEST mixed breed in the worls was my beloved " Little Brianne", she was named after a nice Thoroughbred racehorse running at the time. I found her at a stable chasing some horses in a turnout ring, she was 4 months old and half Corgi/JRT/Pug. She had primarily the Corgi build, the Pug nose and the intensity and joy of life of the JRT. I attempted to place her and ironically gave her to a family with an older German Shepherd that attacked and almost killed her, I took her back and she never left my side for the next 14 years. I lived in a no-pets apartment at the time and since she spent the day at the stable with me saw no harm in sneaking her in and out every morning and night. I had her trained to wait by the door while I checked to see if anyone was out, than I would tell her to " GO TO THE CAR", and she would blast out to the car and sit by my door, same routine in the evening, except the comand was " Go to the house". LOL!
I one day was blanketing a young stallion that became agitated and kicked me in the kneecap knocking me to the ground, Brianne ran under the webbing of the stall and grabbed him by the nose as he charged me, the colt ended up needing stitches, but I didn't care, Brianne and me became even closer, she would come get me if a horses blanket was not on right, or if their hood covered their face, just a real noseybody, everything had to be perfect on her watch, and she absolutely forbid any horse to paw or bang the stall door, she's jump up and bite them, the best trait she had was killing any bug or rodent that I would scream at, all I had to do was scream and she would come running and slay the creature for me, she subsequently passed this trait to my JRT puppy and he down to the next one. There will NEVER be another like her, some day when my heart heals I will get another Corgi, she died in my arms at the Vets after a bout with cancer, it was the perfect ending for her, her head on my shoulder, me telling her how much I loved her.

RIP my little Bri, till we meet again.

[kshort]

Without a doubt, my Murphy girl who is a sheltie/keeshond mix. She is so "human" in her characterics that it's scarey. My heart dog - no one else will ever be able to take her place. She turned 16 on Halloween...

[AndreaG]

Oooh that's a hard one!! I love mixes. Well let's see; first, I have to say Greti, a shep-boxer mix girl was our first great mix; had her from elementary school to college. She lived to be 16, she was the most loyal, honest, the best dog. But we had 4 other mixes too, when I was a kid, all dear kind souls.
And now I have Tatar, who had his picture here so many times, I don't dare to post him again. :-) Perfect family dog, loves everybody, the easiest dog on this planet.

[K9Kaos]

This is such a hard question!! Every one of my dogs has been so special!

Brandi, best guess was a rott/shep mix???, was a wonderful dog!

Here's a pic of her as a pup



What a sweetie!!! Loved everybody!!
Had to drag her out of the vet's office when we went for visits!

She was afraid of the dark though.... we think because her litter was abandoned in a burlap bag on the side of the road pretty young.

She was the most easy-going dog I ever had the honor to be owned by!

[Ursa Lunar]

Never had a mix - all our dogs growing up were Goldens or GSDs!

But, the most beautiful, calm, sweet and intelligent mix I've ever
met was (I believe) 1/2 GSD and 1/2 Great Dane and pure black!
He had the height and body conformation of a Dane, the head, face,
ears and tail of a GSD, and his coat was somewhere in between the
two. Stunning animal! I only spent about 15 minutes with him, but
was in a store where his person worked and Arthur approached
me - ended up sitting on the floor with his big handsome head
in my lap cooing to him, LOL!
I would have moved Heaven and Earth to take
him in if I was told he needed a home!

[Shandril2]

Originally Posted By: Ursa LunarNever had a mix - all our dogs growing up were Goldens or GSDs!

Sounds heavenly!