Today’s post is a good illustration of one of the difficulties of dog park photography. I was just settling down to take some pictures of this lovely pooch, when I was so rudely interrupted. (The breed mix is just a guess, but the more I look at him… Lab coloration, Lab-like tail with a basenji curl, half-up-ears, kind of a similar face… now that I’ve thought of it, I can’t ‘un-see’ it.)
The brow furrows always make a dog look serious and worried. Every time I see a basenji I have to fight the urge to tell him everything is going to be all right.
Never fails... when I find a calm dog who is willing to pose for me, someone else always comes by and sticks his head in the picture. (In this case, what a GOOFY head!)
Funny thing: about half the time a dog does this, it's a pug or pug mix.
I have a surprising number of pictures of pug noses.
Offered without comment.
I’m surprised you didn’t get slobber all over your lens!
ha! fantastic pug photo bomb
We just adopted a dog and I was trying to figure out what mix she was. She looks a lot like your besenji/lab. Does yours have golden eyes and eyelashes? How much does she weigh?
Well, first off, I’m not sure it’s a basenji/lab… that was just a guess, though I think a pretty good one. Based on the other pictures I took of this dog, I think he (she?) has brown eyes, and I don’t know about the eyelashes.
I have no real idea how much she weighs, but from relative sizes I’d say in the 20-30 lb range. That’s just a guess, however. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
Our pup Shiloh looks very similar. We’ve been trying to figure out what she is too. We were recently told she is a besanji mix. She is completely red with blonde highlights and a very small amount of black in her curly tail. Great dog but very shy with new people and environments. Very loyal mutt!