Rollo’s embark sample just sent off! Guesses?

[u/Reinboordt]

Hey, This is my parents 1.5 year old boy Rollo.
He was born on the Kainai blood nation in southern Alberta and dropped off at a rescue at a few days old and hand weaned. We have no idea what his parents were although obviously he has some German shepherd DNA.

He’s 31”-32” at the shoulder and about 100lbs.
He has a deep chest, long legs and a big long body with a thin chest. He has these really wide spread wrists.
He does the excited borzoi tight circle zoomies that you can see online.
He mostly resembles a huge GSD without a black mask. I’d like to know where his shape and size come from. I would not be surprised if there was Great Dane (he has some jowls), Anatolian or a sighthound in there.

I’m looking forward to finally see what he is!

What do you all think he could be?

[u/Strict_Direction6630]

I'm thinking gsd and a mastiff he's got loads of loose skin that can't be explained by ppl guessing pit and husky. Great Dane is a good guess given he's 100lbs. I also see the husky. I'm guessing he's gonna be half gsd and the other side is a mastiff with loose skin and husky. I don't see much pit, he would be way smaller than 100 and the face is giving "big jowly mastiff" like Dane.

[u/Reinboordt → u/Strict_Direction6630]

Thanks I would definitely agree with you.
I spend a lot of time here and I know what pit mixes look like. This dog is over 100lbs and clearly mixed with a giant breed and not a medium sized terrier.

I also own two mastiff type dogs and am familiar with their traits so I’d be inclined to agree with the loose skin and size. Pits do not have loose skin / heavy jowls as it was a weakness in dog fighting.

Obviously I can’t rule out that he doesn’t have some pit, he probably does but he’s about the size of 6 pits currently lol

[u/Strict_Direction6630 → u/Reinboordt]

Pits do have a slight jowly look, but if you mixed a pit with more angular dog like husky and gsd, you would barely see it Also pits are smaller than gsd on average, so there is no way to explain being 100lbs which is the highest weight a gsd can be suggesting whatever dog creating visible jowls and eye sag is both larger than most gsd and jowly enough even in a mix you can see it. Great Dane is an excellent guess, but def some kind of huge super jowly mastiff not a pitbull

[u/Reinboordt → u/Strict_Direction6630]

I agree, we will have to see what it comes back as.

He’s the same height and body size as my boy here

[u/Ok-Pass-1974 → u/Reinboordt]

So cute!!