Brindle shepherd mix - Page 2

Nope.  At first I thought they were pretty similar, but now I see they're not.  That was a Treeing Tennessee Brindle.

I have a brindle catahoula and thought if Cat when I saw thr picutre.

The facial structure is very similar, thouth the ears are very different. Color is most definately different, but the come in many different color combinations vary greatly especially if they are mixed with another breed.

I'd go along with part Cat...  maybe not the brindle part... but would think more of a Cat than a Shepherd in it's background.

 Could also have some Dane, Boxer, Pitt, or gawd knows what.   Unfortunately shelters tend to slap a Shepherd X or Lab X on every dog with a question mark on it... Either that or like a shelter near me they bring out the rare breeds book and slap a breed name on it that makes it sound exotic.  

this has been really interesting thanks! he is about 10 months old. i had never heard of a plott but now that i looked up some photos, they are really very, very similar in looks and body size, shape except the ears of the plott are bigger. it does look like some shepherd, pitts are pretty prominent here but this dog has none of the body or face shape. he is not huge and seems really sweet, we had our boys play with him today and he would be very gentle with our 4 year old and seemed to prefer him to us or our older son and would lay down very submissively at his feet.
We really like him, was a little fearful about getting a pitt since we have little ones. he is about the size of a shepherd and seems too small to be great dane. thanks for all your great info and insights.

Here in New England we have seen a lot of Catahoula/Bulldog mixes so it is definately a possibility. BUT, If this dog came into my shelter I would advertise it as a Shepherd /Hound Mix. We do have Plott Hounds in town who are used for hunting. Ugh!! My problem "children" when I get calls in the middle of the night for a pack of dogs barking up a tree behind someone's house.

If it was Catahoula I would think it would be more leopard/merle than brindle.
Hard to say without seeing the whole body too.  Like windwalker said, most shelters label alot of dogs GSD mix/ Lab mix.
Probably for the purpose of pushing them.  But, hard telling not knowing!  So, anybody's guess is as good as mine being that there are so many dogs with brindle. Then what ever the mix is who knows what traits the pup will take.  Ears from the mother, body from the sire, tail, eyes.  Just never know, so one guess is as good as the other.  Without seeing the whole body, I can't even guess what the mix is because there are so many brindle types.  However, his snout looks like my male GSD's muzzle.

What I have discovered about dogs in shelters is that if the dog has a black muzzle they automatically deem it a shepherd mix.  Doesn't neceassarily mean there has been a shepherd of any kind involved in the mix.