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[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 15 hours ago

My first dog was like that. It just said mutt.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

Actually I think this is a Cur. They often have light brown fur with a blackish nose and short floppy ears.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 day ago

That my friend, is a good boy.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 17 points 1 day ago

Mut. Dog breeds are a recent (last few 1000 years) invention of humans. When dogs intermingle without intervention they all end up looking like dingos basically.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

More like the past few centuries. You'll notice that, if you read the Odyssey, Argos was just a fucking dog, and in pictures from Victorian dog shows the now weird-looking breeds still look normal.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

In Mexico, all the dogs looked the same, kind of like this as I recall.

This does also look like a red bone coonhound in part to me though but not sure.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

They do in Argentina when i visited too.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

The default street dog which I happened to just learn last week is called a Pariah dog.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago
[-] Sina@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

It's the mutt shape unchecked mixed breeding leads to.

[-] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bitsa.

Bits of this, bits of that. Some call them Indian Pariah dogs but just free-roaming dog or street dog also works - they're not confined to a breed

But in EU and US, you don't really get free-roaming dogs.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

SE US got feral Carolina dog populations.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

It's probably not a breed. Breeds are something people, in certain countries, have artificially made and enforced in recent history. Otherwise, dogs are just dogs.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I'm also hasitent to call it breed but I don't know the right word to put on the title since English is not my native language, what type of dog maybe?

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

You're using the right word, the above comment is referencing the idea that "breeds" aren't natural. It's something humans made up because they keep inbreeding dogs to get particular looks.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

here in argentina we call them galgos, i think galgos are an actual breed but we use it to mean those kinda skinny street dogs. we also say they are "marca perro" this means their "brand" is "dog", brand is like a wordplay on the race in this case. so it would mean their race is dog, lol.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

That's some really cool word play :)

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Many areas have what they call village dogs, they have a similar look for that area, but much different than a village dog in another country.

They usually have very little in the way of Standard Breed dogs DNA and are distinguishes separately from a mixed standard breed.

But because there is no breeder controlling traits they can vary a lot in appearance.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago
[-] dektep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

soi dogs in my country

unrestrained street fucking creates very mixed mongrel pups

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Looks like part red bone coon hound perhaps.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Why, that's a Doggo Goodaboyis, of course!

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

or Standard lssue Cat but for dog, Standard lssue Dog?

[-] degen@midwest.social 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm no biologist but it's weird this doesn't happen with cats. Stray/feral cats will be popping out kittens of every variety

[-] nailingjello@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

You can call him Sid

[-] luthis 3 points 1 day ago

I believe that's either a firulais or an askal

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Mutt, or heinz 57, basically a mixed breed.

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