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My dog is a mixed breed. How can I find out its exact breed?

Updated on September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Medium (23 - 60lb) | Male | neutered | 3 months and 24 days old | 26 lbs

I know it's difficult to answer what breed is my dog but I have a mixed breed but I'm unable to figure out what breed it is as I got this pup as a gift from our old neighbour who died since so unable to know what breed she had . Can you please roughly let me know ? He's 4 months old and 12.7lb . I hope these pics are enough to figure out what breed or kind it looks like . Thanks

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on October 8th, 2017

Bongo really does not look like any specific breed so must be a mixed breed, The only way to know if it is a pure breed is to have a DNA test done. many companies offer this service and the process is easy and quite cheap. this is just one example:
http://dnamydog.com/

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