Dog has Husky head, Corgi body

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When I was in Rarotonga, the house next to ours had two dogs that looked exactly like each other, except one had a Corgi body and one had a long legged dog body. This photo of a Corgi-Husky (Huski?) is so striking I think it might be fake. (Via Corgi Addict)

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benjie

Husgi?
Lolotehe

That, my friends, is a Belgian Ambushere. It’s nice to see the breed making a come-back.
Anonymous

What you have here is a Belgian Ambusheres
Anonymous

Could swear I’ve seen several dogs that look exactly like this one in San Francisco. If it’s a fake, they fooled me!
Anonymous

I myself own a half Corgi-half Labrador, a “Corgiador” I believe it is called. Anyway some jerk threw her out of a moving car when she was just a puppy. She looks pretty weird like this one does, giant head and tiny legs.
Anonymous

If it’s a Siberian Husky and a Corgi it’s actually a Siborgi! (pronounced cy borg eeee).
hicks

If it were up to me, I’d call it a Corky. Shame someone got there first.
Mister44

THAT. IS. AWESOME!

I love corgis and huskys.
yochillum

I’m calling fake…. adorably, adorably fake.
paux

Here’s another photo of the same dog from a different angle (http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lljyvb10kc1qarw62o1_500.jpg). I initially thought the dog in the original post could have been shopped but now I am having my doubts about that.
Anonymous

My dad talks about a dog that looked like a stubby German Shepard–a Shepard/Corgi cross–that they always called the Welsh Secret Police Dog.
- Anonymous
  
  ….that is one of the funniest things I have heard in a while…visions of the men of Monty Python @ the ends of their leashes….lol!!!!
prestidigination

Definately not fake. This is a Belgian Ambusheres. Originally bread for hunting small game these animals, like their name implies would lay in wait for animals driven by the hunter towards the dogs.
Anonymous

Looks kinda like a Swedish Vallhund.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Vallhund
Editz

X-Dogs: First Class.
geobarefoot

That right there is the start of a Norwegian Elkhound. True.
Anonymous

I also have a husky/corgi mix. Here’s a photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentsteph77/5813182984/
dole

I have a basset/boxer, though she looks more boxer in the body and basset in the face and ears. Funniest one I’ve seen was a corgi/german shepherd; I went to pick up a dresser from someone’s house, was about to ring the doorbell and heard an alarmingly deep bark behind the floor-to-ceiling front window, then a large, full-size shepherd head poked through the curtains… like barely a foot off the ground.
MadZappaFan

Actually, I think this is definitely for real, because I had a dog that was apparently a cross between a husky and a corgi and he looked pretty must just like that, but mine had a much furrier body. However, that face could be my own dog.

I was driving down the highway at night and hit a stray on the road while going 65 mph. I took him to the all night emergency animal hospital and dropped him off. Two days later they were going to put him to sleep because he had both back legs broken, a cracked pelvis, fractured ribs and a punctured lung.

I went down and picked him up and four weeks later he was up and walking and we spent the next ten years together in Florida, Atlanta and finally New York City where he finally passed away from old age. He was the best friend I ever had and I loved every moment we were together.

His name was Roadkill.
nerdycellist

Here’s a picture of my corgi-mix (German shepherd?) http://www.flickr.com/photos/helper-monkeys/5705660594/in/photostream

I got her full-grown from a shelter, so I can’t really be sure what mix she is or even her age. She’s got the long corgi body and the satellite ears, but her legs are less dwarfy. She also has the vestiges of a herding instinct – she doesn’t nip heels, but she will lick your ankles, and woe betide any group of similar looking dogs that are smaller than she is at the dog park, for they shall be herded.

People used to ask what breed she was and I’d tell them San Gabriel Cattle Dog, Greater Los Angeles Cheese Hound, or Teacup German Shepherd. I stopped using that last one when someone asked what breeder I got her from. I certainly don’t want to encourage the “tea-cupping” of an already overbred dog. (some a-hole is breeding “Ne-Hi St. Bernards”.) Now there’s much more corgi-awareness, so people ask if she’s a corgi and no longer assume she’s a GSD puppy.
God of DIrt

There’s a Corgy-German Shepherd mix that occasionally shows up at my cafe. Terribly cute.
Anonymous

http://twitpic.com/54ixeb
Anonymous

NOT fake. Found this one of a different angle:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljey7ccC2i1qdoltfo1_500.jpg
Anonymous

My pet has the feet and face of a cat, and the body if a pop-tart! NyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyanNyan…
Anonymous

At Nate’s Point Dog Park in San Diego, I recently saw a 1/4 Yellow Lab 1/4 Golden Retriever 1/2 Corgi puppy. If I see it again I’ll try to get a photo for you all. This dog looked like a mutated teddy bear in the most adorable way. Really! like a teddy bear.
Rex Manning Day

Nope, not fake, though I think it might be a Malamute cross, not a husky (malamutes ears are farther apart than huskies).

But if you Google “corgi mixes” and flip through the pictures, you’ll see a lot of these. If you cross a Corgi with basically any other type of dog, you get a tiny, Corgi-shaped version of the other dog. Also a lot of them end up having huge heads. It’s one of the more adorably amazing quirks of genetics.

There are also some obscure-ish breeds of dog, like the Swedish Valhund, that look like but are not actually Corgi mixes, so this might be one of those.
Anonymous

I have a husky/corgi mix who looks pretty similar to this so I assure you they are real and do exist ha.
Anonymous

I just heard Morrissey sing in my head “Husky head, corgi boooody” to this diddy, and now you can too.
Anonymous

a dog in our city has the body of a basset hound (torso, legs) and all the rest is black lab (head, tail, coat). wonderful dog but so interesting watching it move around in contrast to what you expect of a black lab.
- dicebourbon
  
  I had a dog exactly like that a few years ago! He looked so funny when he would run.
dogcow

I can’t vouch for that particular photo/dog, but I’ve seen several Corgi-xxx cross breeds that look exactly like that; like totally shrunken versions of the other half. I just saw an adorable Lab-corgi mix the other day, it looked like someone had put a yellow lab in the dryer for too long…just shrunken, but oddly proportional.
Antinous / Moderator

Are you people blind? It’s a zither.
- CastanhasDoPara
  
  Zither? Link please. I always though a zither was a musical instrument.
Skep

Hmm…the oddest dog combo I’ve ever seen was a great dane / basset hound mix. It was about as tall as a husky, but had the long body and floppy ears of a basset hound, and a short haired, dark brindle coat. It was weird. It was like seeing Dr. Moreau’s personal dog.
- Anonymous
  
  Doxin/Labrador
  
  the doxin was the father.
- Anonymous
  
  Skep – You didn’t happen to see that on the docks in Seward, Alaska did you? There is a lady there with one of those and I have to agree with you. It’s a very…odd looking combination. Not bad, just striking.
Spencer Cross

We do some volunteer work with a local dog rescue, and, having spent time with hundreds if not thousands of dogs at this point, I’ll chime in with the rest of the peanut gallery to say definitely not fake. Corgis seem to lend themselves to amazing and beautiful mixes. We had a Corgi/Border Collie mix that looked just like this, but with a chocolate tricolour Border Collie coat and a full size Border Collie head. He was one of the most amazing looking dogs ever.

Unfortunately, Corgis can be as obnoxious as they are cute. People forget they’re a herding breed, which means they need plenty of exercise and, even better, a job to do or else you’re likely to end up with a very loud, bossy dog.
xinit

I have a Corgi / Rottweiller right here… basically looks like a Rottie head glued on a Corgi, so this is no big surprise to me.

To the person who said that any dog crossed with a Corgi becomes a “small” version of that dog – have you ever lifted a Corgi? They may look small, but they’re dense. Especially when they’re part Rottie. She’s made out of dark matter, I think.
hassenpfeffer

I look at the body, particularly the tail, and the coloration and think “Keeshond,” not “Corgi.” YMMV.
phisrow

The ‘Korgski’ is a secret contingency breed, developed during the late 18th and early 19th centuries at the behest of the British and Russian royal families, so that they could continue to enjoy the companionship of their favorite breed should they be forced by revolutionary anarchists into Siberian exile.

Trufax.
Anonymous

wish it was real but most assuredly a fake I can tell by the pixels near the tail hairs.
- Anonymous
  
  The blurring near the tail could just as easily happen naturally. My guess is that the camera was set on a slower shutter speed and some motion blur was caught. The place that I would look for evidence of photo tampering would be on the legs, not near the tail.
catastrophegirl

my sister told me about when she worked in an animal shelter and a corgi had puppies there. apparently she’d gotten around a bit and there were different dogfathers. all the puppies mostly looked like their dads, but on coffee table legs. there was at least a german shepherd and a husky in the mix. so people would come up and say “oh what a cute little husky, i wonder how tall… OH, he IS standing up!”
Drew

Husky-Corgi mixes are actually fairly common:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horgy
- Cactaur
  
  Well played sir. Does that dog in the wiki article belong to a Mr R. Astley?
CastanhasDoPara

Huh. That’s pretty neat, cute even. I recently became interested in odd cross breed dogs. My roommate of a few years has the sweetest mutt and the closest I can figure she is a chow-terrier-basenji mix. She is of medium build with a deep chest, has purple spots on her tongue, big yoda ears, a bushy curly tail, a terrier head complete with beard and eyebrows and is mostly off-white in color with a yellowish reddish stripe down her back and the fur is long, soft and kinky(it can get very long but is usually cut). Behaviorally she is quite (nearly silent unless some unknown approaches the house in which case she raises all hell with her deep bark and menacing growl which seems to come from a dog three times her size) and loves to dig and root about in the ground. She is also alert, affectionate, energetic, curious and somewhat aloof. She dislike wet weather, likes to climb, can easily get over chain link fences, and cleans herself like a cat. (Most of the behavior is a dead match for Basenjis). More from the Wiki on Basenjis also applies, “…often stand on their hind legs, somewhat like a meerkat, by themselves or leaning on something; this behavior is often observed when the dog is curious about something. Basenjis reveal their animal-of-prey nature by chasing after fast moving objects that cross their paths. According to the book The Intelligence of Dogs, they are the 2nd least trainable dog.” While not untrainable she is certainly willful and somewhat bossy at times.

Neat post and sorry about the long comment, guess it’s just interesting to me.
Anonymous

Could be a Swedish Vallhund, too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Vallhund
Anonymous

Pitbull dachshunds are funny as well. No ankle is safe.
Anonymous

We were looking for a dog in Austin about a decade ago and every rescue and shelter we went to held multiple corgi/fighting dog mixes (rotties and pits, mainly). Either some little corgi stud was breaking into some crazy places or people were trying to breed low-rider fighting dogs. I’ve spent the intervening years imaging this tough little roaming corgi horn-dog taking Austin by storm.
- Gilbert Wham
  
  Heh. I’ve seen a Roittie/Sausage dog cross. It was a mournfully hilarious looking beast. And a Golden Retriever/English Bull cross, which was scary. Damn thing looked like a sheep till you got up close and saw the fangs…
Rob Cruickshank

There are dwarf cats that look like a cat version of this. They tend to have health problems, and it’s a bad idea to breed them, as far as I’m concerned.
We used to have a (physically normal) malamute that we would sometimes refer to as a “malamutant”, which would be fitting for the above creature.
Anonymous

Swedish Vallhund. It’s an actual breed, not a mix.
General Specific

When the features of the individual breeds in a mixed-breed dog are so distinct, I find that I’m always sort of waiting for them to fall apart at the seams.
Anonymous

It looks a lot like a VÃ¤stgÃ¶taspets (Swedish Vallhund).

I live in VÃ¤stergÃ¶tland (West Geatland) and there is at least a dozen of them in my neighbourhood. Unlike in USA and UK, in Sweden most of them aren’t breed to get a uniform appearance, but to be nice, intelligent and healthy: good companion dogs and good working dogs.

The race was probably brought to the British Islands and Normandy by vikings(*) and is thought to be the ancestors of corgis.

(*) Actually, although Vikings is the word mostly used in English about these men and women from Scandinavia, Vikings where a kind of pirates and most of the people called Vikings by English speakers was actually peaceful (mostly) traders and settlers. The “Vikings” weren’t only Danes either, the second most popular English description of these groups, a majority of the “Vikings”/”Danes” visiting the British Islands and Normandy were Norse or Geatish (or even Gothlandic or Rus (renamed them self Swear/Swedish in the 16th century, after the Swear described by antique historians), although those groups of “Vikings” mostly traveled East). They called themself “norrÅ“na menn” and an accurate English name would be Norsemen, and, no, not the same as Norse, although all of them spoke dialects of Old Norse, which is another one of those totally fucked up English words, it is called “norrÃ¦na” in most other descendant languages langauges (the exception, apart from English, is Swedish where it is called “fornordiska”) and that would be a better word to use in English too since gammalnorsk (“Old Norse”) was just one of several dialects of NorrÃ¦na.
Anonymous

I’ve seen that mix with a German Shepherd head. Adorable.
Anonymous

I know this breed it’s a “Belgian Ambushere” They are ambush hunters!!!!!
starbreiz

My brother has a mutt that looks like half weinerdog, half black lab. She has the head of a black lab, ginormous paws, but crazy short legs. She’s really quite hilarious. As a pup, we kept thinking she’d grow, but she stayed short.
rosycoeur

Corgis win for best dominant trait ever. I adopted a Corgi mix years ago. Looked like a Beagle had been the other parent. We didn’t know what she was at first, just that she was 50 pounds of hounddog on tiny little legs that all the other dogs at the park underestimated in tug-o-war. I have since met lots of other Corgi mixes and they are just like this: non-Corgi looking dog on Corgi legs.
Anonymous

We have a basset/rottweiler mix. Looks just like a rotti until it stands up and you see his little legs.
Rex Manning Day

This reddit thread might be relevant to everyone’s interests:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hn69p/i_saw_a_corgihusky_mix_at_the_beach_today_he_was/
Anonymous

It could just be a Norwegian Vallhund?
- bklynchris
  
  Odd, bc the body and leg markings are totally Norwegian Elkhound. Will check out Swedish Valhund.
Anonymous

Sorry, Swedish Vallhund. My bad.
Anonymous

http://dogoftheday.com/archive/2006/September/27.html

Looks like it is a MALAMUTE-Corgi cross!
Anonymous

i saw a “german shepherd” corgi in our neighborhood just the other day!
Anonymous

I used to have a corgi/husky mix about 10 years ago. I’ve been looking for another. Looking at this picture is like looking at my baby! In fact, I have been close to tears because this dog looks freakishly like MY dog! The only difference is my dog had longer hair on her tail. She was the smartest, most loving dog I’ve ever had in my life and I want her back!!! If I could find someone with this mix, I would snap it up in a New York second!
Anonymous

Alaskan Malamute can have a recessive gene that causes Dwarfism and they look just like the dog in the picture… I have had 4 malamutes in my life, and think they are a wonderful companions. i would adopt this dog in a heart beat! I can’t wait to show my wife how cute!
rocketjam

I saw a guy walking his dog at the park where I run. Kept thinking, “that dog looks like a Husky/Corgi cross”. We were both leaving the park at the same time and I asked him about it. He said it was a Malamute/Corgi cross. It did look a lot like the photo above, although in the photo, it looks to me like the head may have been photoshopped on there.
Anonymous

i prefer the term “Huggi”
egoVirus

this is almost certainly animal abuse…
Anonymous

I haven’t seen a lot of pixels in my time, so I don’t know if that particular picture is fake or not. What I do know is that my sister had a corgi-german shepard cross that looked very similar to the dog in that picture.

If you really want to see a strange dog, I wish I could show you the pictures of the bull terrier-fox terrier crosses, that my harlot bull terrier dog gave birth to.(I don’t mean to besmirch the memory of my beloved bull terrier but I have never seen any creature so to such lengths to be the town bike!)
Anonymous

I have to go with Swedish Vallhund. My neighbors have a pair that look almost exactly like that.
Anonymous

I’m sure that is a real dog. I saw a similar mutt at a local animal shelter once. – He had the head and tail of a full sized German shepherd, but the small body and short legs of a Corgi. This didn’t stop him from having a loud bark or the high energy of a normal sized German shepherd! It looked like something out of a movie, and I wouldn’t have believed it either, had I not seen it myself. Though I was tempted to, I didn’t adopt the dog, as I already have a couple of cats in my apartment. I really hope someone did adopt that adorably odd animal. I am wondering if such crosses happen through intentional breeding, or are the result of the random mating of strays? That dog in the photo might look too unusual to be real- but I can attest to the fact that it is possible to have such crossbreeds.
Anonymous

The dog needn’t have any Corgi in the mix at all. Corgis are short because of achondroplasia, much like the condition that affects some humans with dwarfism. This mutation can spontaneously occur in dogs of other breeds, leading people to assume they are mixed with Bassets, Corgis, or other dogs that we’ve deliberately fixed the achondroplastic trait in through breeding.

- a vet tech & shelter worker for 20 years
Anonymous

nahh it’s real. my dog is a corgi and lab mix. he has a corgi torso and full lab head. he’s pretty silly looking.
narddogz

Does it mean that there is something wrong with me when I see some bizarre cross bred dog like this and I immediately start imagining what the mating must have looked like?
Anonymous

my sister has a german shepard/korgi mix. she’s adorable and has a good bark.
Anonymous

I agree with comment 39. I have seen two dogs that have achondroplasic dwarfism. They are mixes that look like Corgi mixes but are actually German shepherd and collie mixes that simply have dwarfish. As weird as it sounds, it happens with dogs just like it happens with humans. I think that this is a husky with dwarfism.
Anonymous

Definitely a Swedish Vallhund. They’re such a wonderful breed.
Brainspore

Now I’ve got this mental image of a Chihuahua’s body trying to support a Mastiff’s head.
Darwindr

There are tons of really cool and strange corgi-mixes out there:

http://www.thatcutesite.com/corgi-cross-breeds-are-cute-25-pictures.html

The Corgi/Basset Hound and Corgi/Dachshund are my favorites, but anything with a smushed-face doesn’t work for me. The fox-like face is one of the things that make corgis so cute.
jackie31337

My parents’ dog, which they rescued when it was abandoned in their neighborhood as a puppy, is part corgi and part who knows what. It didn’t have the characteristic stubby legs until it was about a year old, so they had no idea what kind of dog it was. Based on its other characteristics, the vet thought it might be a large breed (possibly german shepherd) mix, so they fed it on the assumption it would grow up to be a big dog. Well, it did, but not in the way they expected. Now that the dog is on thyroid medication, it’s looking more like a normal corgi, and less like a beached seal pup.