your favourite x breed!

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So a while ago there was a big thread about designer x breeds however I think like horses sometimes a x breed of two pure breeds turn out v nice dogs even be it mongrels. So what's your favourite x breed? I like springer x labs was looking at a few in rescue before getting Teal. And he's just emphasized my liking for the mix. Great fun and quick to learn but the affection of a lab and the stomach of a lab lol. Very much a one person dog...mine. unlike my other two who would go with anyone.
 
I have a Patterjack (patterdale x jrt) hes jet black and smooth, hes won many foxhunt terrier shows and was champion for a few years, hes now 16 and although on heart meds for a grade III murmour he still lies on his belly with his legs behind him like a puppy and is so supple and bounds around, hes never been ill, and is perfect nature, brilliant doggie!
 
I'm partial to an Abe myself. Aussie x Akita.
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We had a Yorkshire Terrier Cross - he looked like Gnasher from Denis the Menace except Black and Tan. He was PTS aged 16 in 2008 and he was the most fantastic little animal. He never got cross even when the kids came along and he was old and in bad health. We got a headstone made for him which reads "Here lies a good Dog". I still miss him and wish he could have been cloned. He was one in a million.
 
My two girls, pics in the thread I've just posted. Mummy is Springer x Patterdale, and then her daughter was fathered by a working cocker. I LOVE them to pieces. They are the perfect little dogs IMO :) :)
 
we have a mini poodle x mn schnauzer, a schnoodle!!, she was rehomed to us. i must say she has been the easest and cutest dog we have ever had with bags of character. She's like a prncess at home, but lkes nothing better than running about, chasing birds and roling around in muck!! We also have a jrt x, thnk she might have spaniel in her - jack spaniel!!! She's got a lovel temperament but is bonkers
 
I love lurchers, do they count?
Toffee I think Teal just proves how hard it is to predict what these crosses will turn out to be. I know 2 springer x labs, both are like slightly larger springers, but black, and that is their only acknowledgement to their labrador parent. One is owned by neighbours who took her on at 9 months when she was on her 3rd home as previous owners couldn't cope, and the other is a pup some friends have got, result of an accident between 2 working drugs dogs, at 4 months old he too is pretty manic, and not quite what they expected.:p I do think its a nice cross though, as long as people are aware they could go either way.
 
In 1998 we fostered a 3-week old GSD x whippet from our local Dogs' Home, after her delightful owner had sold all 9 pups despite being cautioned by the RSPCA after the sale of the first, and most of the purchasers couldn't cope with their new acquisitions.

Twelve years + and she's still with us. Not the most beautiful of dogs (quote from our vet "She has possibly inherited the less desirable aspects of both breeds!") but she has been the most wonderful friend to us - loyal, affectionate, good guard dog, very fast in her youth, and nice to the succession of other dogs, cats and horses who have been her companions along the way. I would happily have another such cross - though possibly joining us at a slightly more mature age!
 
My JRT X Collie - half the size of mummy and twice the size of daddy!!:rolleyes: :D If I knew how to upload photos I would, he just looks like a JRT sized Collie :D
 
We have one who I think is collie x some type of terrier, he is medium sized and black and white but is very terrier like in his behaviour. He is very intelligent and also very independent - aged 14 this year though so the hearing and sight is going a little. He can still ahve a good bounce around though when the mood takes him and he's still a pretty good ratter!! Our other dog is (again I assume) a GSD x collie given she essentially looks like a GSD but is smaller in body and her coat is more collie like in texture. She's great, very loyal, lively and a bit of a dimwit sometimes but I think deep down she's relatively intelligent! Lol
 
Most of mine are x breeds. Staffie x JRT..super friendly, loving, kind and sweet..but because of the idiotic cross he's got bad hips, bad legs, heart is failing due to chest size putting strain on him and he's generally an unhealthy cross.

Staffie x Beagle, pure evil! Bad from both breeds so you have a determined, head strong bitch who's bad with other dogs and would fight to the death if allowed. She's my princess and I love her obviously but what a stupid cross.

My lurcher is technically a cross breed, whippet cross bedlington. He's utterly insane, badly behaved and disobedient..but he's a clown and extreamly loving and very very lazy which is lovely!!

The best and only cross I would ever consider having again without thinking is my Mr Perfect Sidney!! He's a standard Poodle x Bedlington, utterly utterly gorgeous to look at (big curls and huge brown eyes) he's wonderfully behaved and has been so easy to have around. He comes everywhere with me and is always a gentleman, loves other dogs, people and anything else!! He's very very energetic and I imagine if he didn't recieve alot of exercise he'd be very hyper but for me he's perfection. If I could clone this dog I would he's going to be hard to forget.
 
Mine is either of mine old English sheepdog x gsd who is the most sound dog ever! A giant but the softest oaf ever he is perfectly behaved all the time and the only bad point is that he doesn't eat...!!!

Then my other husky x lab... All the beautiful looks of a husky :) and all the well behaved trainability of a lab! So perfect recall and perfect fetching :) but lab tummy...so eats everything!!!
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Thought I'd just add my x pics too

Boots - GSD x Collie
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Boots and Sox (Collie x terrier?)

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No idea how to make them bigger - think it must be something to do with taking pics on my phone (and me being a bit 'special' with technology!) - you get the idea though! Lol
 
Border Collie X Springer Spaniel
Lab or Border Collie X whippet or Greyhound

and what my parents call a council house dog (Cute, fluffy and about 6 different breeds in one) :D
 
MissUnderstood - your beige crossbred could literally be the brother of my bitch in my post on this thread. My heart missed a beat as I thought it was my girl. How old is your boy? Mine has a white shirt-front and under-chin, did have very dark muzzle and ears (now fading with age) and the beige fades to almost white at her paws.
 
One of our crossbreds was possibly Dandy Dinmont x Basset. He was a splendid fellow with cabriole legs, plumed tail but floppy ear, and had been abandoned as a puppy outside a branch of Freeman Hardy Willis in London. People often laughed at him as he was so droll, but one day a woman said " What a vulgar little mongrel!" I was so angry that I ignored her and just said patronisingly to her companion "I don't think your friend's seen an Ardennes Truffle Hound before?" (the first name that came into my head). Some minutes later she came over and asked me if I'd bought him in France........
 
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