PLEASE HELP!!! We're trying to determine the breed(s) of our family dog General Chat

We bought a family dog, 'Pandora', back in August and the lady assured us; our new girl, was a Shorkie. At first, we somewhat believed her. Then our dog started exhibiting traits of a terrier. She ravages through things in the yard, runs rampant like any other puppy, and chews on everything -within sight. Our puppy now weighs 30 pounds and isn't even a-year-old. Haha!

We believe that she has some sheep dog in her as well. We are just reaching out to this community for the first time and hope that somebody might be able to provide some answers... After all, who wants to spend $90 to genetically test their dog. I will if I have to but I'd like to give this a shot in the dark first.

To say the least, I think we got had...Nonetheless, we love her the same!

Please help us by identifying our pictures and trying to deduce the breed(s) of our love 'Pandora'.

Can you please explain what a "Shorkie" is supposed to be? Very cute as a small puppy and rather sweet in the later picture.

Regarding genetic testing - there are no tests that are 100% correct so please do not waste your money - just love your dog and accept that she is still a puppy. Did you see her dam and sire when you bought her? Or any of her litter-mates? Or did you just take the breeder's word as to what cross she is.

I have a crossbreed 10 month old puppy [Dachshund/Minpin] who probably weighs less than 15 lbs who, small as she is, is an absolute devil at times. But I saw her dam and litter-mates when she was just under three-weeks old, and her sire "the little dog across the road" was a Minpin. So I know what my devil mini-monster is and love her for who she is. A crossbreed with no fancy "breed" name.

Your puppy will, hopefully, grow out of the puppy stage - it just takes time, patience, and training.

And love.

Sheepdog x Corgi?
I guess that would make her a Shorgi in modern parlance!
I agree with Malka about DNA tests for parentage - so many breeds were originally crosses themselves, you couldn't be certain of the result. Love her for what she is, and help her through the teenage stage with some positive reward based training. She is an attractive girl, and it I think this could be quite an intelligent mix, if you can channel her energy.

@CaroleC - I had thought Shorkie would mean a cross with a Yorkie, not a Corgi. I just hate it when "breeders" sell cross-breeds under "special" names, when they do not know what the breeds really are. Accidental mating or BYB springs to mind when I hear such made-up names.

And to sell them under these "special" names?

Would my devil puppy be more special if she was called a DoxPin? Might sound nice but even though I do know the breeds of her dam and sire, she is a crossbreed. Not a DoxPin or anything else. And I did not buy her either. I rescued her.

@Malka I was just joking, Sheepdog/Corgi = Shorgi, the way pet folk describe crossbreeds these days. I would imagine the OP's Shorkie would be a Yorks. Terrier crossed with something which begins with a Sh sound. Shar Pei, Sheepdog, Shih Tzu, Sheltie?
I agree with you about these names, they usually denote a BYB trying to give added credibility and value to a crossbred puppy. Like yourself, I was happy to call Tweed a Lurcher/Terrier cross, and revel in her individuality.
Maybe some of these crosses will eventually make it as breeds, the Labradoodle and the Cockerpoo, (horrid names), are possibly leading the chase, as there are KC Assured breeders producing them, and a minority of them do health test. However, I would have preferred it if Wally Conron had named the 'doodle after himself. The Conron Retriever sounds quite respectable to me!

Looks like Border X Corgi to me as well, but until pup is fully grown you never know for sure.

@6JRT's - I can see Border although not100% but I cannot see Corgi.

As for waiting until the pup is fully grown, the OP says that her pup is not yet one-year old, therefore is probably as grown as she will be, seeing as she is not supposed to be a large dog breed.

@HoosierDoggy - your puppy, your decision. But what would you do if your puppy was not the "breed" - or even cross-breed that you expected when you bought her?

Whatever you do, please do not think of breeding her. Have her spayed as soon as you can.

I thought it was shihtzu x yorkie?

No idea what this little one is, but doesn't seem to have the hair for either of the two breeds. Whatever, she is lovely.

Does it really matter what your girl's breed is? A lovely dog is a lovely dog and really doesn't care what anyone calls them

By the way, if there is Yorkie in her, Yorkies are terriers so terrier traits not too unexpected

Unfortunately you don't have a Shorkie have looked on line & your dog looks nothing like a Shorkie.

Shorkie (Yorkie X Shih Tzu)



Borgi (Border Collie X Corgi)