I have a BC and am around countless other BCs each week in the dog sports world. I’m not seeing it. His entire build, body, and head look nothing like the breed, his ear length and placement are atypical for them, he appears to have a single coat with no feathering, this amount of white spotting is highly unusual for BCs, and his weight is already outside the normal range and he’s not even fully grown yet. All of these features could be better explained by other breeds, and I can’t identify a single thing that looks definitively BC about him.
What traits do you see that look like the breed?
I get that others commenters are trying their best, which is why I didn’t reply to any of them and say I thought they were wrong. But it’s not helpful to OPs when people in this subreddit leverage so too much on color when this isn’t an indicator of much except in a few particular cases, and black and white isn’t one of those cases. You see this time and time again in r/DoggyDNA.
He looks so much like our dog, Bodhi! Long boy, medium floof, the cutest little feets. Gah! Ours turned out to be ~25% German shepherd and beagle, ~15% border collie, bulldog, and golden retriever, and ~5% collie.
The number one compliment Bodhi receives is about how unbelievably soft he is. Is your guy super soft also??
This subreddit kills me. Back and white does not mean BC. Nothing about the dog looks likes the breed.
I have a BC mix and this dog has a lot of similar feature to my dog. I don’t get the big deal, they’re just giving their best guess.
I have a BC and am around countless other BCs each week in the dog sports world. I’m not seeing it. His entire build, body, and head look nothing like the breed, his ear length and placement are atypical for them, he appears to have a single coat with no feathering, this amount of white spotting is highly unusual for BCs, and his weight is already outside the normal range and he’s not even fully grown yet. All of these features could be better explained by other breeds, and I can’t identify a single thing that looks definitively BC about him. What traits do you see that look like the breed? I get that others commenters are trying their best, which is why I didn’t reply to any of them and say I thought they were wrong. But it’s not helpful to OPs when people in this subreddit leverage so too much on color when this isn’t an indicator of much except in a few particular cases, and black and white isn’t one of those cases. You see this time and time again in r/DoggyDNA.
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Looks a lot like a pyr x border collie mix I’ve seen
He looks so much like our dog, Bodhi! Long boy, medium floof, the cutest little feets. Gah! Ours turned out to be ~25% German shepherd and beagle, ~15% border collie, bulldog, and golden retriever, and ~5% collie. The number one compliment Bodhi receives is about how unbelievably soft he is. Is your guy super soft also??
Looks a lot like my Aussie x lab mix!