From JT: Bark looks like a monster Beagle. We were surprised to find out that he is actually a Shetland Shepherd, Bloodhound, Bulldog, and Australian Shepherd mix. We originally thought he was a Beagle Boxer mix of some sort. Apparently a lot of the “Boxer” traits were actually the Bulldog and Bloodhound genes.
He definitely has “shepherd” intelligence and Bloodhound stubbornness! He is high energy, high intelligence-and maybe the only “sheltie” like trait he shows is that he is a true companion dog.
He loves kids/strangers/other dogs, maybe too much sometimes! Right now he’s slotted to be at least 50 lbs, but the photo is when I got him at a teeny weeny 8 lbs at eight weeks.