My daughter and son-in-law got a puppy about a month ago. He was a rescue and a mutt. They wanted a mutt since my daughter had her beloved dachshund die last January after many spine problems. NO more pure bred dogs. Ollie is a little bit odd-looking. Please note the photo. They wanted to know what his breeds were in case there was some sort of red flag that they could be aware of at least. Believe it or not, you can buy a do-it-yourself DNA test at Petco, send it in and in about two to three weeks you get your list of dog breeds and percentages of each breed. I thought that sounded pretty cool and it was not that expensive.
After three weeks of waiting, my daughter gave me "the call." Ollie is about 50% chihuahua (he is actually very tall and pretty big), about 20% or so beagle, about 20% or so pug, less than 10% afghan hound (what? How did that happen?) and less than 10% shih tzu. Weird. He really, really looks like a boxer, lab mix. But, no boxer or lab! How strange! We suspected that he was part chihuahua because one of his front legs shakes when he is sitting. Imagine a leg the size of a boxer, shaking. Weird dog! He is a great dog and has house-trained very easily when I think back to the house-training of our dachshund. It took us months to train Porter. Ollie? A couple weeks. Wow.
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