Today I saw a beautiful dog sitting outside a local co-op. It looked kind of like a Great Pyrenees (my family had one when I was growing up), but had a coat of many colors - tan, brown, black, gray and white. Almost like a tortoise-shell cat. I took some pictures of it on my phone.
What do you think this dog is a mix of? I would say probably Great Pyrenees, Malamute, and tri-color Collie. What do you think? Either way it is a one of a kind dog.
Upon first glance I’d have to say collie in there somewhere.
Perhaps a Tibetan Mastiff Mixed with Collie?
I dunno if there needs to be collie in there to get the coloring. It’s got the hair and face of a pyrenees and the coloring of a malmute.
Looks like a golden retriever with a very unfortunate coat 
(I was going to say golden but I see that the pyrenees has the exact same face as a golden)
Bernese Mountain Dog mix, maybe?
I threw collie in there to explain the pointed snout. Mastiffs have a more squared off snout. However, the Tibetan that was at the recent Westminster Show, looked very similar in coloration and facial features (heart shape face), to the dog pictured in the OP. From what I have seen, Tibetans are usually darker, but the texture of the hair looks right.
http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/2009/photos/breed/WS14990201.html
Simplest explanation: a collie-lab mix. Sure, it could be a number of other mixes, but those are the most common breeds that would produce something like that.
I don’t know, but I want to hug it, and give it a kiss on the nose.
Collie x Newfie
or
Collie x Chesapeake Bay Retreiver
Lab + Australian Shepard
It doesn’t really come through in the pictures, but this dog had a very stout build. Definitely a Mastiff type body build, of which the Pyrenees is one variation. It was like a little miniature bear. Not really the kind of body that I would imagine a lab and collie mix alone would create. I lived with a Pyrenees from age 5 to 18, I remember everything about it (although I haven’t seen one in person since, save for one time at a dog park) and I still hold that this mystery dog definitely has some of that breed in it.
Labs can be very stout and solid, especially when there are some short-leg’d genes in the pool.
My guess is what we call The Standard Farm Dog, the off spring of the neighbor’s mix breed bitch and what ever was passing by when she was in heat. Lots of Short Faced Collie in those farm dogs – they do have to sleep in the barn, after all.
Abuse me not with this Bernese Mountain Dog, Tibetan Mastiff froo-froo non-sense
But the shape of this dog’s head and muzzle are distinctly mastiff-like. And if it had collie in the mix, that would have made the face thinner and longer, so if it were collie and lab mixed, I doubt it would have such a blocky, mastiff type face.
I see shaggy Collie and some kind of Shepherd definitely, though it could be Australian or German either one. (Sometimes the dog looks like a vase and sometimes it looks like two people kissing as well.) Whatever the blend, it’s a beautiful dog.
The white mask on his face resembles a Malamute. So does his overall build & bulk. I’d guess a Malamute/German shepherd cross since both of those dogs are readily available for mutt-making purposes. It would give his black & tan with lots of white coloring too. My first thought was the Bernese, too, but on reflection I think he looks more like a mutt.
Husky x bicycle trailer.
I too vote for The Standard Farm Dog aka Hienz 57. You could see variations of that dog everywhere around here. There really is nothing exotic about her.
I vote for golden retriever/st. bernard mix.
I’d be almost certain that half of that came from a golden retreiver.
