Dog of the Day: Jake the St. Bernard/Golden Retriever Mix

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Adam Lang

Hah! Dogs of San Francisco, coming to you from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We made it to our hotel, if barely. An interesting trip so far, that started with Autumn nearly missing our flight (she got there with almost 15 minutes before they closed the doors, so maybe ‘almost’ is an exaggeration) and ended up with us bringing the hotel night clerk a paper cup with a bedbug in it and asking politely if we could have a different room, that we didn’t have to share with quite so many other… beings.

But hey, at least it has WiFi, right?

Anyway, this is Jake. Jake is almost certainly in San Francisco right now, even if we aren’t. And Jake is a ridiculously awesome dog, being half from a breed that rescues mountain climbers from certain death, and half from a breed that rescues zillions of peoples’ sanity every day.

Three more awesome pictures, after the awesome break.

Half golden retriever, half st. bernard

I know, I know. It looks like I photoshopped the head of a St. Bernard onto the body of a golden retriever. I promise, that's well beyond my ability.

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Dog of the Day: Dilla the Boxer Mix

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Adam Lang

[Okay, this is strange. I had this set up to post last night, and it just… didn’t. Don’t know what the deal was. But since I’m adding text anyway: posting may be erratic for the next few days. I am going on vacation. I was going to queue up the posts for the days I’d be gone, but I’ve also been sick, so I spent that time sleeping instead. If there’s WiFi on the plane I’ll do some posts there, otherwise I may or may not get to them. Sorry ’bout that.]

Anyway, on to today’s dog. I am pretty convinced that Dilla is half boxer, but I can’t place the other half. Maybe something light and fairly big, with a long pointy muzzle… greyhound, borzoi (probably not: wrong fur), or saluki (probably not: wrong ears). I know there are other similar dogs, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.

Also: neat collar. You can see it in some of the pictures: it has ‘Dilla’ embroidered onto it.

Five more pictures, after the break.

Boxer mix

Autumn calls those 'airplane ears'... half or more up, but with the tips flopped down.

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Dog of the Day is Delayed

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Adam Lang

Sorry, feeling crappy, need to try to get a lot of sleep tonight. With a little luck I won’t end up dead sick during my first real vacation in over a year.

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Dog of the Day: Fiji the Small Münsterländer

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Adam Lang

The first small Münsterländer we’ve had on here, though we had a possible mix a while back. And no, those are not heavy metal umlauts. I am assured by a very reliable source that her full name is ‘Madam Fiji Von Chacha.’

Incidentally, ‘small Münsterländer’ is kind of a misnomer, unless you count a dog that averages at about 45 lbs and can get as big as 60 lbs ‘small’. Me? I call that a pretty respectible Münsterländer.

Small Münsterlander puppy

I took over thirty pictures of Fiji. This is the only one where she stood still long enough that she wasn't a blur.

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Dog of the Day: Utah the German Shepherd Mix

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Adam Lang

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this guy is a German shepherd mix, from the markings. If his ears were floppier, I’d say he was a shepherd/Lab mix, but I’ve never seen ears like that on a dog that was half Lab. Autumn is stumped too. So this is a ‘I’m sorry!’ to Utah’s parents: we’re just as confused by your pup as you are, but whatever he is, he’s a pretty spiffy dog. If you ever find out what he is (via one of those genetic testing things) please do drop us a line in the comments and let us know.

Oh! And please, if you haven’t looked at the pictures I posted Saturday night, go look at them and then suggest a name for the puppy!

Two more pictures after the break.

German shepherd mix

Small paws, a lot daintier than a shepherd. Maybe an Italian Greyhound for the other parent?

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Dog of the Day: Help Name This Puppy!

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Adam Lang

The gentleman and the pup below were sitting outside one of our local drinking establishments. And everyone who went by was stopping to pet the puppy, so naturally we had to too. But when we asked about the pup, we got a surprise: most people are happy to tell us the dog’s name, but may or may not know the breed. This guy knew the breed (part German shorthaired pointer, part Labrador retriever), but the puppy was so newly adopted that the family hadn’t yet decided on a name!

Well, I’m putting the word out to all my readers… all, what, five of you? 🙂 Suggest names for this pup in the comments section. The pup’s dad is going to come look at ideas, although no promises whether he’ll use any of them. Guess you’ll just have to come up with something so awe-inspiringly (aww-inspiringly?) appropriate that he’ll have to use it, right? [Edit: the pup is a girl, and my memory is just as weak as ever.]

Three more pictures, and of course the comments section, after the break.

Man holding Lab mix puppy

If I had a puppy, this is what I'd do. Sit out in the sun and let people fawn over her when they walked by.

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Dog of the Day: French Bulldog/Holstein Mix

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Adam Lang

Our first dogcow!

White French bulldog with black spots

Graze, boy! Graze! There's a good dogcow.

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Double Dog Day: Old Home Day!

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Adam Lang

In the last week, I’ve run into four dogs who have been featured on DoSF. Not only that, they were all memorable enough dogs that I knew them right away. Given the sheer number of dogs in SF, and the relatively small number I’ve posted, and my totally awful memory, this is pretty unusual for me, so I’ve decided to celebrate by posting new pictures of two of the encore pooches. (The other two, sadly, I literally met in the middle of the street, while crossing in the opposite direction, hurrying to work. I took the time to tell the woman walking them that I had posted them, but I didn’t have time to take any more pictures. Aw, well, they got a pretty good number the first time.)

The first encore pooch for today is Wallace the Chihuahua mix:

Wallace the Fluffy chihuahua mix.

Look at that tail, and the coloration. Maybe he's half Aussie?

The second is this gorgeous (we guessed) golden/collie mix (although now that I’ve seen a couple of golden/collie mixes, I have even less idea what he is.)

Fluffy reddish-golden dog of indeterminate provenance

I've looked at a lot of dogs in the last nine months or so... I still have never seen a stare quite like this guy's.

Welcome back to DoSF, pups.

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Dog of the Day: Corgi/Foxhound mix (?)

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Adam Lang

We’re not sure about this dog. I’m sure I talked to a guardian (or at least the person who was walking him at the time) but I can’t remember if they didn’t know what breed he was, or if I just forgot to write it down. In any case, our best guess is corgi mixed with some kind of hound, Autumn says maybe foxhound.

One more picture after the break.

Corgi/foxhound mix

I have six or seven pictures of this guy, and in every single one, the tail is a blur. (Of course, in a few of the, the rest of him is a blur too.)

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Dog of the Day: Uni the German Shepherd/Italian Greyhound/Shar-Pei/Yorkshire Terrier

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Adam Lang

Wow. This gal is just about as mongrel as they come. (We didn’t guess at her ancestry: his guardian told me they had had her genetically tested, and ‘German shepherd/Italian greyhound/shar-pei/Yorkshire terrier’ was the result. Half German Shepherd, and various amounts of the others, I think.) And she’s one heck of an awesome dog.

[Edited to fix the gender. Mea culpa, as usual.]

One more picture, after the break.

German Shepherd/Shar-Pei/Italian Greyhound/Yorkshire Terrier mix!

Well, you can certainly see the German shepherd. Both in appearance and in attitude. And she's quite fast, so Italian greyhound isn't that huge a surprise.

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