There is a dog that I always see walking around, (his owner takes him). Today I saw him tied up in front of a store. So I waited and asked the owner what kind of dog he was. She said she didn’t know and she got him from the pound.
I looked on the Internet and found he looks JUST like an American Eskimo Dog, except he’s red, well not red but like a rust colored orange/red.
But other than the color he looks just like the picture of an American Eskimo dog.
How big? Is he as fluffy as American Eskimo Dogs?
Sounds like a Shiba Inu.
If you go to Google and do a search for American Eskimo Dog
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=american+eskimo+dog
You come up with pictures and the dog looks EXACTLY like that.
he is VERY VERY Fluffy and very personable.
My first thought was the Kleinspitz, or German Spitz. Many of the little spitzen breeds look very, very similar. It could even be an oversized Pomeranian or mix.
ETA: No, American Eskimo Dogs don’t come in any other color but white–it might be part or mostly American Eskimo, but if so, there’s something else in the mix somewhere.
Best guess might be an American Eskimo Dog or a Samoyed crossed with something else. The Samoyed looks pretty much like an AED, just larger. A sammy could have been bred to something smaller. If you look at the AED image links on the page you provided, there’s a dog picture page featuring an AED/Chow mix that’s rust red and fluffy:
It could be an oversized Pomeranian?
I was going to say Shiba Inu as well: Shiba Inu
OK if you look at the first picture that is pretty much the color of the dog but it is much bigger. It probably is between 50-75 pounds. It’s like the size of a good sized German Shepherd or Collie. But it is VERY fluffy so it looks even bigger. But if you pet him you can see he is mostly fur
I have a 100 lb Samoyed male and they don’t really come in darker colors in the U.S. That isn’t to say your idea isn’t right. I just don’t know any weird Samoyed crosses personally but I guess it could happen.
What about a Chow (or Chow-Chow formally)? They come in red colors and look similar. A chow cross could definitely fit the bill.
Sounds like a Chow Chow or a Chow Chow mix. They have black tongues.
Their other common name is Chinese Lion dog
I don’t believe Samoyeds come in anything but white and various shades of off white (the AKC says “white”, “cream” or “biscuit”). I brought it up because they look darn near identical to the American Eskimo dog, except that they’re larger. If the OP is after a bigger dog, that makes a sammy mix more possible. A bit of poking around yields plenty of people with Samoyed mixes of various types. The first thing that crosses my mind is a sammy / golden retriever cross, and there seems to be plenty of those around. Of course, it could easily be a chow mix of some sort, too, or some other spitz breed.
Oh. Yeah, in that case, chow mix all the way. Especially having been a pound dog, chow mixes crop up with some regularity. When you asked about American Eskimos, I was picturing a little guy, like a Pomeranian.
A purebred American Eskimo will always be white (or “biscuit cream”, which is dog-person language for off-white). I’ve had two, and both are whiter than copy paper.
Some of the research I did before getting my American Eskimo Dog told me that, previous to World War I, the breed was known as a White Spitz. A lot of things got Americanized names then. So, the dog could simply be a Spitz of a different color. Eskies have slightly turned-up mouth edges, giving a smiling look. The eyes are rimmed in black. There are two strains of face shape, the fox face and the fuller bear face. There are three sizes (standard, miniature, and toy,) but they are genetically the same. According to breeders I spoke to, a standard couple may produce mini or toy offspring.
