What kind of Puppy is This?

[SillyChicken]

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LOL was going to say the same! I've had a pit/lab mix, they're great dogs!!

Left to right:
Tara (Rottie/Lab mix) girl
Buster (Pit/Lab mix) boy
Kaine (Cane Corso) stud muffin

 

[allanimals21]

This is my chocolate lab at 8 weeks. He has a white chest. Purebred. Just not registered. Mom wasn't registered at the time of breeding and I didn't feel I needed papers on him because he was getting fixed anyways. He was super tiny when he was little. This is my favorite pick of him.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

If that pup has anything mixed in it may only be 25% other breed. It looks fairly pure except for maybe the eyes. The ears...some dogs just have small ears, some have huge ears.

Probably not pure, but could still be just a not perfect example of the breed. I've seen pure Chow Chows with sweet faces, and we all know that aint quite right

 

[isadream]

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If it was found then more then likely its a mix and I dont see how they can tell you friend it was pure when they have no ideal what it could be. Mixes are very hard to determine especailly as pups. I had a half dobe half rott and even the vet thought she was a coonhound. Her parents were guard dogs at a car lot so we knew what they were.

Renee

 

[Whiskey Bay]

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I pretty much agree with the imperfection.I've worked many years as a rescuer and many more in a vet clinic. I've met many breeders of all types.There is always the SMALL possibility that it's purebred (even though it was found) .We've had an instance of a client who was traveling with her dog and the dog ended up getting freaked out and away from her.By the time she was found about a week later she'd already had the pups.Animal control was called out to remove this "stray "dog with a bunch of puppies from an old shed behind an empty resident,just 3 blocks from the clinic. The eyes or the thickened muzzle doesn't mean it's mixed.That would imply one parent was a perfect example of the breed and the other at least a decent exampl to through the characteristics. It may have just as easily been a bad example of the breed.Poor breeding/genetics.
On the next note...it's a PROBABILITY that it's a cross (doesn't mean a pit bull cross. Many breeds have bullish characteristics.And I've seen some beautiful labs with excellent lines throw off thick bodied dogs) because MOST of your 'purebred' dogs nowadays are bred for 1 thing.Money.For this reason most of these people are gonna keep a close hand on these dogs and not let them outta sight.A lost puppy is lost money.Especially one who looks as nice as that one. Not too many "non-dog people" know the difference in the registries.IE: AKC,UKC,ADBA,CKC,NAPBDR,SDR and so on. AKC,UKC,and ADBA are more legit clubs.The parents of the dogs have to be registered with them (or traceable back 3-6 generations) The rest are backyard breeder clubs.CKC= I can steal your beagle or get one from the pound and register it as a purebred dog.All I need is to fill out their paperwork and send them 3 pictures of a beagle and viola! in a few weeks my dog and her puppies are now "registered" and for sale....hence your bad examples of breeding....AND hence your designer dogs.Labradoodles,Yorkie Poos,Chi Poms,Malti Poos....and so on.
LOTS of people are not good judges of dogs.They see a dog of a specific color and assume it's another breed. I had a blue fawn pup that I brought in to have his ears cropped.This one lady in there was petting and loving up on him telling him how sweet and cute he was. She says I love Weimariners,they are so beautiful and their color is gorgeous.And she compliments me on him and his ground manners. Then I decided to let her know he was a pitbull and you would have thought I just told her I gave her the plague.She got up and moved and started complaining about the horrible man eaters.

Just to let you know,I am not knocking anyone,just pointing things out.I ... love the pup he is adorable!!!

 

[RiverOtter]

Purebred doesn't = well bred.
I'd bet it's a lab. Chocolate is pretty recessive, lab is pretty common.
The pup in the pic is about 5-6 weeks old. Note the color of the eyes. Not quite done changing from baby blue. Can't really tell alot about breed at that age.
Also. My mutt looks JUST like a Border collie. His mother looks JUST as much like an Australian Cattle dog (red heeler) as her son looks like a Border collie. Looks aren't everything.

 

[JenEric Farms]

My vote is all Lab, but not 8 weeks old...looks younger. Labs can have a small amount of white on the chest, though not desirable...it is permissible.

 

[bagendhens]

id say a pure bred (but badly bred) lab whos mabe 6 weeks rather than 8 weeks. theres something about the eyes and head/muzzle that says thats not an 8 week old pup.

sure is a cutie pie.

 

[boykin2010]

purebred labs arent allowed to have white on their chest just an occasional white speck on their feet or the end of their tail. so a short version is no probably not a pure lab. but it is mostly lab. probably the mom was a lab but the dad was a 75% lab and 25% something else. my guess on that something else would be a pitbull becuase of the ears and face but ya never know. i would say the percentage of lab blood in that puppy is very high. she is probably 90% or more because both her parents were most likely lab in majority. cute puppy! but i would say that it isnt a purebred.

ps. the white chest is in the genetics of one of the parents and it sometimes just shows up randomly in the gene pools of labs

 

[cmb19]

Labs will show up with white spots like that in all 3 colors and can even be brindle, BUT those are obviously not what quality breeders want. I agree that the pup may be a mix, but probably mostly lab if it is a mix. The ears do seem tiny and I'm impressed you folks can pick out how old the puppy is...I have no idea how to figure that one out.

Here's my little girl the day we got her (and more recently). She's obviously not a high quality lab, I don't even have her registered..mostly because I can't figure out a name.

She's definitely the field style lab...although I think I'm a little too late to train her for hunting since she's over a year old now, I think she'd be excellent at it. If a Dock Dogs club happened to show up in my area she would be amazing.