For pet owners: what breeds are your pets?

[mvd]

My dog Reba is a mixed breed. She's big, long, and has a double undercoat - I think she has German shepherd, collie or border collie, and golden retriever.

[scarlet_owl]

1. Our dog is a rat terrier. The ferrets are just plain old ferrets.

[trackfan]

2. My dog appears to be a lab mix

maybe with pit bull.

The cat is a standard black and white tuxedo model.

The chicken is brown, and a bantam.

[unpossibles]

3. 2 cats, a dog, and a bird

the cats:

grey medium hair housecat (?)
tabby that is semi-spotted, looks like an African wild cat


dog:
part Chocolate Lab and part American Sneaky Neighbordog



bird:
Sun Conure

[hyphenate]

4. My cats are

without pedigree. The big lunk looks exactly like a Maine Coon, though. The others are your domestic shorthair "alley cat" mixes. And I love each and everyone of them as though they were otherwise. :)

[ismnotwasm]

5. One pitbull/boxer mix

He's very gaseous, so I think the boxer in him is dominant.
One black cat
One Dark Calico kitten.

[mvd]

7. Boxers are adorable in their way

I saw one when I went to my grandfather's funeral - it liked people, but was dominant with other dogs. It had just been in a fight, in fact.

[ismnotwasm]

9. They really are

I think they are dog dominant/ people friendly. We used to have one who wanted to look at us when he was running ahead, so he practically bent himself in half.

Our dog is gentle, but he's got that deep "woof" when he barks, so he sound scary. He keeps his ball in his mouth or by him at all times--I think he figures you never can play too much fetch.

[China_cat]

44. Cottage cheese, yogurt or buttermilk

At least 3 times a week (about 1/2 cup) will help that. Check your dogfood, too. I've found liver foods cause the need for superstrength gas masks around here.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Ours are rentas

as in rent-a-cats.

Our neighbor's cats congregate in our house; we have an open door policy.

They come and go as they please. Four of them.

But only one of them allowed in the house at any time, to avoid the cat fights.

[bertha katzenengel]

8. my cats are all domestic housecats . . .

The tame ones are shorthairs, but for two

The wild ones are shorthairs, but for one

And in a variety of colors & patterns!

short hairs:
two gray tabbies
two sandy tabbies
three brown tabbies
three tuxedoes
three dilute torties

long hairs:
one ginger tabby
one black (with a pretty white star on her throat)
one black & white

Miaow! :hi:

edit: ack! Three torties, not two! Shame on me!

[Cannikin]

10. Golden Retriever and a tabby cat

[flvegan]

11. My big boy is a Great Dane, but most of the rescues here are pitbulls.

Wonderful, loving dogs they are. The media has largely scapegoated them to cover for craptacular owners. Most of mine come from "interesting" situations.

[Flaxbee]

12. cats! five short-hair, two long-hair

short-hair:

two orange tabbies with white bibs and feet: one male, a big loveable lump, one female, purrs the second you look at her. We joke that she's the new body for the male, who is 12 years her senior. When (if, we like to believe) he passes on, we're going to look for personality changes in the little orange tabby female

one tortie, extremely sweet but bossy mother of three of the residents

one ginormous male tuxedo, head the size of a softball

one psychotic calico, mostly white with calico ears and tail


long-hair:

silver tabby, female. Extremely luxuriant fur, white underbelly
orange/'creamsicle' tabby, female. I think she and her silver sister have Maine coon genes; the orange one grows a mane in the winter and has looonnnng, hair-like fur feathers on her tail. She's spectacular.

[hatredisnotavalue]

13. I know the stray mixed breed people are going to flame me on this

But finally after 48 years of taking in strays, I finally got a purebred dog...a Golden Retriever. I loved the stray mixed dogs I have had over the years, (there were seven, and they all lived until their teens) but getting a purebred puppy with no emotional issues was pure nirvana.

Same with the cats, I can't count the strays I have taken in, probably in the dozens. My stray Siamese is just a true treasure.

[Dervill Crow]

14. Princess Daizie is a pit bull.

:::zipping up my flame retardant suit:::

American Staffordshire terrier, to be more precise.

[6000eliot]

15. I siamese cat.

His sister died a year ago November.

[livetohike]

16. We adopted two dogs from shelters - parentage unknown but

Cindy is a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard (mixed?) and Murphy is an Australian Cattle Dog (mixed?).

[Ariana Celeste]

17. German Shepherd/ Chow mix

This is Peanut (Peanut of the North):



And our turtle is a Midland Painted.

Mr. Bawkbagawk:

[AlCzervik]

18. Guinea pig-American satin.

[Mutley]

19. My dog is a mixed breed.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

54. Looks like she has some Shepherd in her.

Especially in the second picture.

[femmocrat]

20. Two Pembroke Welsh Corgis and an ancient black cat.

n/t

[Placebo]

21. No idea!

We walked in the pet store and just bought the cat we liked. I'd like to know what sort of mix she is but I doubt there's any way to know.

That being said, I want a siamese so bad! I'm in love with their colours and gorgeous shape. But I also want to rescue a cat from the shelter. I'll probably do both.

[KG]

22. got min-pin?

[bedpanartist]

23. One Pitbull, One German Shepherd

they keep the burglars at bay, to say the least.

[Alleycat]

24. A Golden and 3 cats

Cats are: a grey tuxedo long hair, black tuxedo short hair, and a think a tabby (brown & cream cat with black stripes and spots)

[Zookeeper]

25. A Rat Terrier dog, 2 cats (one ancient Siamese.....

and our new big boy who is a grey/black tabby that looks like a wildcat) AND....as of today.....A HEDGEHOG brought home by Zoodaughter. *Sigh*

[Fox Mulder]

26. Purebred Pekingese.

And I have a mixed breed cat.

[spindrifter]

27. German shorthaired pointer--

this is our second of that breed. I'd say we are sold on these goofy, people-oriented pups.

[Tikki]

28. Tikki is a Chihuahua.......

...a little girly Chi....

[grateful581]

29. my best friend a Miniature Schnauzer

[kskiska]

30. Treeing Walker Coonhound

[Arkansas Granny]

31. My dog is a white mixed breed with blue eyes, maybe part

Spitz (?) and my cat is a black domestic shorthair with a few white markings. Both spayed females.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. Skye Terriers all.

http://www.akc.org/breeds/skye_terrier/index.cfm

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/skyeterrier.htm

[pookieblue]

33. two cats...

one is just a plain ol' moggie.


the other, is a Turkish Angora Mix.

[Broken_Hero]

34. a black and white

full blood pomerianian, with spots...rare pom to find, my mother paid through the nose for this one...she got him for "stud" purposes, and then pawned, his peeing ass, off on us...

[Maestro]

35. Pure bred Belgian Malinois

[bumblebee1]

36. Ours

dog- Sheltie/male

rats- one hooded, one masked/female

two male guinea pigs

[gkdmaths]

37. Dog is a lab

and a girlfriend, but the dog is very well trained.

shhhhhhh! she'd kill me! }(

[Jamastiene]

38. All three of my cats are adoptees

form the wild. They are domestic short haired cats, aka "alley cats." I do believe that my Sunday Girl has some Persian in her because of her flat little nose. And I do believe that Yogi and Domino are part Siamese, because one of their littermates looked just like a Siamese and they are both so vocal. I can't confirm either though, so officially, they are "alley cats."

[RebelOne]

39. I have an AKC-registered Rottweiler and a little mutt.

My little mutt, Dewey, looks like Benji.

[radfringe]

40. 5 cats 3 dogs

dogs:
2 greyhounds and an airedale

cats:
snowshoe
calico
grey tuxedo
grey/white striped tabby
tortiseshell

[RockaFowler]

41. We have 3 dachshunds - they are the best

They are our little kids . . .

[calico1]

42. One dog: female Rottie,

5 cats: 4 domestic shorthairs, one longhair.

[China_cat]

43. The breed of my heart

is the Bouvier but I only have 1 right now. And a Briard/Beardie cross, a pug cross and 5 mutley cats.

[riona]

45. Adopted Himalayan/Ragdoll mix

[NewWaveChick1981]

46. I have two mixed breeds.

One is Casey, who is six years old. Got her from the animal shelter when she was about a year old. She's definitely got black Lab in her, and we think she's also part Doberman. She's a real sweetheart!

Vicki is three years old. Got her from the animal shelter when she was 8 weeks old. She's a real handful---she definitely has pointer and/or bird dog in her, and most likely Jack Russell Terrier and probably fox terrier. She looks like the RCA Victor dog (which is where we got her name), only leaner with longer ears.

[City Lights]

47. 6 mixed breed felines.

I've only had one purebred, but he's gone. :-(

[seemunkee]

48. Italian Greyhound and a Quaker parrot

The IG is wonderful, the parrot is insane.

[txwhitedove]

49. One furry friend, a full-blood ShihTsu, without papers as she was

the runt of the litter with a little hernia and gift to me.

[progmom]

50. both our pets are rescues and interesting mixes

Ellie the dog appears to be part white shepherd and part lab:



and Rufus Harley the cat is a tabby mixed with something else (we think):

[bettyellen]

59. look at that pink nose leather on Harley!

i just learned that term last week and have been dying to use it!
:*

[Lumily]

51. A Bernese Mountain Dog, and a Tabby Cat.

[B3Nut]

52. 6 dogs, 2 cats, handful of small reptiles, + rescue animals

4 Pit Bulls, a Pit/Rottie cross (super-smart self-important diva of a dog), and an American Bulldog round out the canine meangerie. There's a longhaired calico my Grandma offloaded onto us and a Lynx Point Siamese my wife got from a client at the vet clinic where she works. We have a bearded dragon, a Sudan plated lizard, and a day gecko as well. There's a female Pit Bull we're dogsitting and a foster male Pit still hanging around (we work with Chicagoland Bully Breed Rescue as Wisconsin representatives). We're still fostering four turtles for small-reptile rescue as well.

A zoo, I tell ya. I'm about to lose my old female Pit Bull Honey to cancer, though. She's a rescue of uncertain age but we think she's at least 13 now. I got her back in 2000 from a lady who found her abandoned in a rental property she owned a week after the tenants skipped town leaving the animals stranded. She's been through the mill, but ended up OK. She's still her lovable snuggly self, but she's starting to lose her spark. Gonna be that time soon, I'm afraid. :(

Todd in Beerbratistan

[dysfunctional press]

53. siamese/himalayan mix, and two tabbies- one grey, one red.

cats, btw...

[ChickMagic]

55. One is a kitten from a calico

He's male, thus he's a tuxedo kitty. The other is
part ragdoll and part opportunist. Our only remaining
bird is a cockatiel.

[auburngrad82]

56. Two Australian Cattle Dogs, a Pointer and two mixed breeds

Liberal bumper stickers

[Bridget Burke]

57. Two domestic longhair cats....

The big white one looks much like the Turkish Van. ("Lookalikes" to specific breeds sometimes show up in "regular" litters. But he was adopted, so I never knew his relatives.)

www.swimmingcats.com/

(I haven't tested his swimming ability.)

A neighbor has 3 Burmese--lovely cats with strong personalities. (She's also given homes to "regular" kitties over the years.)

[ProfessorGAC]

58. Doggie Is Yellow Lab Kitties are. . .

. . .standard domestic shorthair, which i think is felinese for mutt.
The Professor

[kwolf68]

60. Right now

Just my two cats.

Medium hair cats is all I know...

A Calico (Lil' Bit, or Bit for short)
and the male

Doodley (maybe Ill post pics one day)...

the female is awesome. The male is just kinda the typical cat...wants food, some pets, and a nice place to sleep a lot. :)

[CottonBear]

61. 3 DSH cats, a native Georgia slider turtle & a registered Oldenburg filly.

The cats are two female tabbies (a huge, fat 19 pound grey tabby and a petite but plump, deaf brown tabby) and a semi-longhair, black & white bi-color male kitty. The turtle, Lucky, came from a local pond. He was rescued as a hatchling from a ravenous snapping turtle who was eating baby turtles as fast as he could. The filly is a beautiful reddish bay, three year old with a white star and socks.

[lavenderdiva]

62. Libby is a parti-variety cocker spaniel...

I adopted her from Cocker Spaniel Rescue of East Texas ( link: http://www.cockerkids.org/dogs.html )

Her sister, Emma, who I also adopted from Cocker Rescue, sadly passed away earlier this year. Libby, and while she was alive, Emma, is the light of our lives. We don't have children and Libby doesn't see why we should need any! She demands to be the center of attention, and of course she always is. She loves to sing, especially to opera sopranos. She stashes big piles of her toys in my closet and right by Mr. LD's desk. Those are 2 very safe places for all her playthings. We love her to bits...

[jobycom]

63. One cat is a cross between a potato and a rusty bucket

based upon how much she just lies around, and then gets up to leak on my couch.

My other car is pure energy. She does not stay still long enough to return to matter.