This would be better as its own post rather than tacked on to a post about website technicalities. With that, it is really difficult to determine breeds by a photo alone. A dog who looks purebred may actually be a mix, and not even have the breed it looks like in its dna. A purebred dog may look like a mix or another breed altogether. And mixed breeds do weird things - they may combine physical attributes in frankenstein ways (ie, the legs of a basset hound and the torso of a lab) or they could get all their physical attributes from a couple breeds and their personality from completely different breeds. The only way to really know is to do a dna test. However, it is fun to play the guessing game. On that photo alone, I would say chihuahua for certain, doxie or min pin, maybe some other terrier breed too. One thing to consider is that different regions tend to different "common" mixes. Where I am, mixes with shepherds, pit bulls and chihuahuas are pretty much standard. Other breeds will get added in there, but 80-90% of mixed breed dogs here will have at least one of those three breeds in them. Where I grew up, the common breeds in mixes were poodle, lab, shepherd and doxie. So, it can be worth checking out the local shelters in the area where the dog came from to see what breeds are commonly identified in the mixed breeds there. That can help you get some ideas. If you decide to go with a dna test, pick one that includes breeds from your region. As this is an international forum, a dna test that has great results for me may be worthless for you. I'm in the U.S. I have used dnamydog with great success. However, that test focuses on breeds that are established throughout North America. If you are in Italy, this won't give you an accurate result. On the flipside, sometimes those tests that include every breed known to man will "read" a rare breed only found in the mountains of tibet in the dna that has no practical possibility of being in a mixed breed dog born in Kansas City. Those inaccuracies are less common than before but they still do occur sometimes.
