# What breed is my dog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 17, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095 "2015-01-17T19:41:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JakeRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/1 "2015-01-17T19:41:33Z")
(sorry for the links,I can’t manage to put the pictures,maybe someone can tell me the code for them) Anyway,I asked a lot of people,but no one knows,most say that it is a dachshund (although obviously not the main type which is small and thin) ,I tried searching for the breed my self and I only found similar dogs,but nothing exact,by body he looks like a dachsbracke,the problem is that 1.I couldn’t find a single photo of the dachsbracke with white hair located only in parts where mine one has (just legs and stomach),the dog on link 2,a dachsbracke has white legs and the body is brown more or less like on my dog,but he is almost totally white around the head and neck,while mine isn’t anywhere except legs and a little on stomach. 2.the other problem is that my dog has a relatively thin tail,all dachsbrack’s that I found have big wide tails with a lot of hair. The other dog that it kinda looks like,a lot less and only by shape,not color, is a beagle,but they also have a different color and different tails. I tried even seaching for a mix of a dachshund and beagle,but nothing. So what is even left? link 1,my dog [http://www.dodaj.rs/f/z/6/1H9OGfuS/1/jackie.png](http://www.dodaj.rs/f/z/6/1H9OGfuS/1/jackie.png) link 2 [http://www.mein-hund.de/images/thumb/8/80/Westfälische\_Dachsbracke.jpg/280px-Westfälische\_Dachsbracke.jpg](http://www.mein-hund.de/images/thumb/8/80/Westf%C3%A4lische_Dachsbracke.jpg/280px-Westf%C3%A4lische_Dachsbracke.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beauregard\_Porkypine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Beauregard\_Porkypine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauregard_Porkypine)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/2 "2015-01-17T19:46:45Z")
Look up Google Images for a Basset Hound / Beagle mix. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/3 "2015-01-17T19:51:11Z")
First off, your pictures are fine. You can’t make them show up directly in your post, so posting a link to them, like you did, is the best you can do. Second, unless you got your dog from a pedigreed breeder (in which case you wouldn’t be asking us the question), he’s just a mutt. He might be a combination of two breeds, but given the number of breeds, and that number squared for possible combinations, it’d be impossible to run down all of them. And of course, he might also be a combination of any number of different breeds. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/4 "2015-01-17T19:59:41Z")
> [@Beauregard\_Porkypine](#): > > Look up Google Images for a Basset Hound / Beagle mix. I’d toss some Corgi in there. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/5 "2015-01-17T21:29:25Z")
Looks like a Doxie to me. We got four of the bastards so I should know! 😃 Except the markings (we have a dapple), he looks just like our “big” male. Head, ears, snout and those big paddle feet are just like his. Great dogs, huh? ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/6 "2015-01-17T21:33:54Z")
Looks to be the kind I call “good dog”! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/7 "2015-01-17T21:43:44Z")
My first dog was a dachshund-beagle mix, and your dog looks a lot more like a dachshund than she did–but with mutts a lot of variation is possible. You can get a DNA test for your dog. That might provide a little more information. On the other hand I’ve known people who spent the $$ and all they dog was the information that their dog was from a long line of mutts. He looks like a good doggie! PS My dachshund-beagle mix was silvery gray, with a darker stripe right down her back, a color never seen in either dachshunds or beagles to my knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![JakeRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-breed-is-my-dog/710095/8 "2015-01-17T22:52:00Z")
I live in Serbia (S-E Europe) if that helps a little (due to geography) ,most small dogs here are some sorts of mixes,so I guess mine one is too,the reason why I want to know so much is that I want to get another one that has white legs that look like ,socks, ,maybe Ill take him to the vet later and see if he knows.