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I think I might be able to give you a clue as to what your "MinPin" mutt is... I've done quite a bit of looking, because...well...we apparently have her twin sister.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29822_grace.jpg
Ours was a stray, too.. Those tiles aren't quite a foot across, and she weighs probably in the neighborhood of 25lb..
She literally showed up on our front porch one morning, crying at the door. Her feet were cracked and bleeding on account of walking from who knows where.. She'd obviously been nursing a litter, though there was no sign of the pups anywhere.. We feel pretty confident that someone bred her, let her have her pups and raise them, and then promptly drove her out to the sticks and left her for dead.
What intrigued me the most was that someone took the time to dock her tail, which indicated to me that she had a purpose at some point. It told me that she was a "breed" of dog, and probably not just a mutt..
After a couple of years of looking off and on, I ran across the "feist dog", which isnt so much a breed as simply a type or category of dog.. There's a lot of crossbreeding in feists, so they're all fairly unique....though there seem to be quite a few of them that look just like our Gracie -- and your mutt, too!
Check this out and tell me what you think.. Especially, look at this pic from the site...
Eery, huh?
You do have Prissy's twin sister. They look identical. You don't happen to live near Woodville, MS do you? Someone here is dumping these dogs. We first spotted Prissy two weeks before we could actually catch her. She was in our front pasture, near the road but every time we tried to approach her she would growl and bark and then run into the woods. When one of the hurricanes came through here, she got scared enough that she ran up onto our porch and we were able to catch her. She was very small and skinny and covered in huge ticks. The minute we brought her inside she became "our" dog. We bathed her and she ran and got in bed with us and has been a little cover diver ever since. The vet estimated her age at 5 months at the time which is how old Scarlett our GSD was. They have been best friends ever since. We originally thought she was a Min Pin because she only weighed 8 pounds. She probably weighs 25 now. Someone who owns Manchester Terriers saw her and thought she was a pure Manchester Terrier (check out their site). In any event, someone here is dumping these dogs. Just last week I saw a lady in town with a young dog on a leash and I could tell right away it had to be related to Prissy just by the way it acted. Coloring was different, but attitude was the same. I asked her where she got it (she's our meter lady) - she said she found it in the road near our home a few months ago. It was a tiny puppy and only the size of her hand. They named her Jemima. She has to be from the next litter after Prissy because Prissy is now a year old and their dog is just a few months old. Both dogs found in approx. same place.
Here she was when we first caught her.
Can't people be so cruel?
Sorry, didn't mean to thread hijack. Back to our regularly scheduled program on the joys of German Shepherds.
I think I might be able to give you a clue as to what your "MinPin" mutt is... I've done quite a bit of looking, because...well...we apparently have her twin sister.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29822_grace.jpg
Ours was a stray, too.. Those tiles aren't quite a foot across, and she weighs probably in the neighborhood of 25lb..
She literally showed up on our front porch one morning, crying at the door. Her feet were cracked and bleeding on account of walking from who knows where.. She'd obviously been nursing a litter, though there was no sign of the pups anywhere.. We feel pretty confident that someone bred her, let her have her pups and raise them, and then promptly drove her out to the sticks and left her for dead.
What intrigued me the most was that someone took the time to dock her tail, which indicated to me that she had a purpose at some point. It told me that she was a "breed" of dog, and probably not just a mutt..
After a couple of years of looking off and on, I ran across the "feist dog", which isnt so much a breed as simply a type or category of dog.. There's a lot of crossbreeding in feists, so they're all fairly unique....though there seem to be quite a few of them that look just like our Gracie -- and your mutt, too!
Check this out and tell me what you think.. Especially, look at this pic from the site...
Eery, huh?
You do have Prissy's twin sister. They look identical. You don't happen to live near Woodville, MS do you? Someone here is dumping these dogs. We first spotted Prissy two weeks before we could actually catch her. She was in our front pasture, near the road but every time we tried to approach her she would growl and bark and then run into the woods. When one of the hurricanes came through here, she got scared enough that she ran up onto our porch and we were able to catch her. She was very small and skinny and covered in huge ticks. The minute we brought her inside she became "our" dog. We bathed her and she ran and got in bed with us and has been a little cover diver ever since. The vet estimated her age at 5 months at the time which is how old Scarlett our GSD was. They have been best friends ever since. We originally thought she was a Min Pin because she only weighed 8 pounds. She probably weighs 25 now. Someone who owns Manchester Terriers saw her and thought she was a pure Manchester Terrier (check out their site). In any event, someone here is dumping these dogs. Just last week I saw a lady in town with a young dog on a leash and I could tell right away it had to be related to Prissy just by the way it acted. Coloring was different, but attitude was the same. I asked her where she got it (she's our meter lady) - she said she found it in the road near our home a few months ago. It was a tiny puppy and only the size of her hand. They named her Jemima. She has to be from the next litter after Prissy because Prissy is now a year old and their dog is just a few months old. Both dogs found in approx. same place.
Here she was when we first caught her.

Can't people be so cruel?
Sorry, didn't mean to thread hijack. Back to our regularly scheduled program on the joys of German Shepherds.