Most of you know that Quincy was a rescue. He was confiscated from the breeder due to abominable conditions and had come to Kid 2 and her bf with serious problems.
Despite training and much love, Quincy has been exhibiting some un-German Shepherd like behaviors.
For example.
That and some other things convinced Kid 2 to have get a canine DNA test. We now bring you the results.
Quincy is 94% German Shepherd. And 6% wolf.
Behold, Quincy’s family tree.
In light of this new development, should you encounter Quincy, we urge you to exercise extreme caution.
“Werewolf?”
Points. “There wolf!”
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Quincyyyyyyyyy! It’s been too long.
Glad to see he’s still living the life. I noticed the Mcdee’s bag in that last pic and feel sure that the toothy grin and slurpy tongue were somewhat related to it. A sure way to fend off the menacing wolf(ish) dog. 🙂 Our own mystery flavor pound puppy always considered McDonald’s scraps to be snacks of the highest order and much too rare for his liking.
We have a lovely GSD. He’s part dog, part pony. He’s 7 months old and 53 kilos.
Here’s his photo
Zooterkins!!!!! I am terrified!!!!!! Surely this terrifying creature is about to jump out of the screen and rip me to shreds!!!!! Ayuh, sure.
A fun finding for a really cute pup.
He’s a perfect and delightful angel.
Full disclosure: I am that woman who’d totally pet the dog if the creepy man in the creepier white van offered one.
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Hopefully it makes him healthier. Hybrid vigor.
You rock Quincy! In the days before canine DNA tests I had an Airedale who would MEOW! I swore he was part cougar; he also pounced, just like a big old kitty. Ain’t science great!
I had a wolf cross dog — in fact, his ancestry was St. Bernard, Malamute, Akita and Timberwolf. Our trainer commented that it probably took him 10 minutes after waking up to decide who he was going to be that day.
Mr. Q (for the Star Trek Q Continuum…he was HUGE…140 lbs, and I had to lift my hand to pat his head)…anyway, Mr. Q was the smartest, silliest, funniest and most affectionate pet I’ve ever had, and I still miss him so much it hurts.
May your Quincy be just as precious and memorable!
Ha! Quincy’s yip sounds a lot like a Coyote to me. He looks pretty much irresistible. Maybe the 6% wolf will help spare him from potential hip issues. 🙂
Yeah, that’s a dangerous looking animal, that is!! ROTFL!!
Seriously, he’s a pretty dog. Glad he found such a good home!
He is the bestest of puppies and the wolf heritage just gives him extra character.
And that striped shirt insulted every base pair in his wolf genes. ????
omg, that yipping! ROTFL He’s more shrill than my 8 lb dachshund was. And those funny funny photos! Thanks so much for sharing, it really made my morning.
We had a dog who was a rescue. Actually he showed up at our house and impressed us enough to keep him. He looked part German shepherd, part chow. The vet who gave him his initial shots said he had a good amount of wolf in him.
We would never have chosen any of those breeds to bring into our homeschooling family with 6 young children. But this dog was exceptional. Very submissive to us, very protective of children, deadly to rodents unless they had our smell on them, as pets. Basically a big goof who was really good at judging people and looked hecka scary to strangers.
Our oldest daughter was in college, a biology major, away from home when we got him. When she saw a picture of him she freaked out, drove hours to get home, to save us from this dangerous beast. Before she even got to the door, after all of us had greeted her at her car and the dog who had never seen her before stood up on his hind legs and gave her a hug, she said, “Never mind.”
You really needed a “spew alert” on this post! Coke (as in Coca-Cola, wouldn’t know about the other kind, I spend my discretionary income on your books, lol!) hurts when it comes out of your nose & co-workers look at you funny when you suddenly burst out laughing for no apparent reason… Quincy looks about as wolf-ish as Winter & Sadie do…
I have a toy poodle that everyone always asks what she is. To me its obvious.. i have her cut in the non showdog cut but she has the fluffy long haired ears. The key is that she doesn’t have a docked tail. There is no reason to dock a poodles tail unless you are going to use them as what they were bred for.. a water retriever, and that is debateable. Anyway, the curled tail with a plume stumps them every time.
I have 2 Belgian Shepherds (littermates) and the did that all the time. We called it their singing.
So in other words there goes your McDonalds???
Having the big goofball sweater pic heading up the family tree is perfection. HAHAHA!!!!!
I would have guessed he had swallowed a squeaky toy. ????
Our rescue GSD is a scaredy cat.
We had her for 3 months before she would make a noise.
It turned out that our 2 year old 70ib shepherd was considerably younger. 30 ib later she is full grown and darn near as heavy as I am. ????
Quincy could be descended from Czechoslovakian Wolfdog (Československý vlčák), that is more probable than random crossbreeding.
In the US people breed wolf hybrids on purpose. I ran into a handful over 15 years as a vet tech, from a 7/8 wolf that looked pure wolf to a couple of 1/8 wolf crosses that looked like lab/shepherd crosses except for the eyes. They were all very easy to deal with in the vet clinic; all dogs should be so well-behaved.
Doesn’t make him a bad boy. We all have differences in our family tree.
There was a trend, round about 1970, to breed ‘wolf-dogs’ since, ya know, they’re so cool. Never mind how difficult it might be for the dog to deal with civilization.
For the DNA testing, a friend had her Saluki tested, only to find it was part Golden Retriever, part Chihuahua. Soooooo…..
Moon Moon! I love rescue dogs. That’s how we got our Havalon who just also happens to be a 1/4 Beagle. She’s just the best little dog.
Quincy sounds like he ate a squeaky toy. I love it!
DNA tested my dog because I was so confused. He looked mixed boxer but he grew bigger than a boxer (27″ shoulder 120lbs), had an undercoat I’d never experienced, webbed toes, etc. Turns out he’s half Boxer, quarter Malumute, eighth white Shepard, eighth…. Chihuahua. ????
So we ended up with a mouthy, overgrown toddler that sheds like a cat, loves below zero temps, and per a professional animal trainer, is completey obstinate.
Aurelia needs a pooch like this in her life. Just sayin’…
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The family tree instantly gave me this mental image:
POV- reading a romance novel and author tries to make it a mystery as to which hero the heroine will choose.
Me: gee, I WONDER WHO IT COULD BE ????
“According to my research, in a vampire- werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl”
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So cute. We had a German Shepard growing up. Tinkerbell. (5 girls, what can I say lol). Sweetest dog ever. The pictures remind me of her and I just want to hug them. I absolutely love that yip, too funny!!
We had a boxer called Tinkerbell when I was growing up!
Thanks for giving me a giggle!
What a happy little derp <3 Love it.
I showed this to my son (also an IA fan) and he commented, “Wow!!!!! A very Ilona Andrews outcome–the pets are never what they seem in those books!” So true…
I have not laughed so hard in a long time!
Quincy is a surprise package!
Years ago, more than twenty, a co-worker’s Siberian Husky came up pregnant. Totally unplanned and a mystery. She delivered 12 puppies. They were adorable and I took two home. As they grew they became escape artists and actually chewed a large hole in the garage door to get out. They loved the dog park and were not aggressive towards other dogs but half an hour into our visit they were testing their perimeter for an escape. One of the other owners did the DNA thing and passed the info that the pups were quarter wolf. It explained so much!
Lol, huskies will do that too. They’re notorious escape artists and insanely smart. We had one we never could keep contained. She would dig out of physical fences (and chewed through the holly my parents planted on a recommendation to block the fence) and was smart enough that she figured out how to run down the battery on the electric fence collar until she could just stroll out. The only dog we’ve had close to her intelligence was a hound that had survived as a stray for several years. My mom always wanted another husky, but we live in the South now and those dogs are made for snow.
As a person that was raised with wold and coyote hybrids ( all accidental rescues)keeping a pack mentality is CRITICAL. The can be great family members but they are NOT pets and they always are testing their place in the family.
If you ever rescue another GSD/Husky/ Malamute+, always run your hand over the top of the skull between the ears. A domestic dog’s skull is flat. A hybrid will have a peak.
Beautiful dog, and good luck! Get a gentle leader for the walks.
We did one of those for our dog because he was a mess of blondish hair with a Bassett-like body. He looks a bit like a highland terrier. It came back half purebred bichon frise and half purebred Rottweiler. We might have believed the bichon, but there was no way he was half Rottweiler or two purebred breeds considering where we found him. We talked to the vet and he just rolled his eyes and said the tests aren’t reliable.
The owners of my dog’s littermate got one done and theirs seemed more accurate since it seemed to match mom and what we suspected of dad. I’m not sure if it was the difference in tests, whether some breeds are easier, or if they were just better able to narrow it down because we knew mom was a bully breed mix.
Nature over nurture is a funny thing. Quincy is hilarious. I love all the animal posts! Thank you for brightening my day. We had one pure German Shepherd and one Lab and Shepherd mix. They are excellent dogs. Clearly Quincy is doing all his ancestor’s proud.
I am guessing from context that wolves yip like this and that dogs/German Shepherds don’t?
I am owned by cats. These canine nuances escape me. But anytime you want to talk varying cat fur textures, I can be useful.
I believe German shepherds are very closely related to European wolves. Quincy obviously, is a lovely canine.
As always a delightful post, with the most adorable of pups. However, as someone looking into new flooring I’m intrigued. Do you by chance know anything about where the floors pictured come from or thoughts on them.
My girl is a rescue who was billed as a “Boxer/Bulldog” Mix which I was happy about because I did NOT want a pit bull. I couldn’t see either one the boxer or the bulldog, but when she has some loose skin and when she curls up, she wrinkles which made me think Shar-Pei. One DNA test later?
76% American Staffordshire Terrier (obvs, I didn’t know what a pittie looked like)
15% Bulldog
3% Miniature Bull Terrier
Aaaand 6% Shar-Pei
And with all that, she is 100% the sweetest dog I’ve ever known. Loving her and her wrinkles every day.
Hubby and I alternate between being owned by dogs or cats! We will lose a much beloved and usually VERY elderly dog and decide we can NEVER have another because it is much too hard to lose them-but we MUST have a pet because we miss one WAY too much! So we break down and get a CAT! A couple of decades later we lose a MUCH BELOVED, ELDERLY CAT, who has owned us for decades, so we get a dog! See a developing pattern!? We are now happily owned by a very interesting and funny cat! He is much beloved by the whole family and rules us all from the thrown behind my head on my recliner chair! Since we are now rather elderly ourselves, we suffer from stiff necks most of the time!
Wait…is this the same pooch who got so terrified during a thunderstorm that he couldn’t walk and your daughter rushed him to the emergency vet?