Hi all!

I adopted my puppy, Riley, in April 2017 at 8 weeks old. By all accounts he looked like a purebred husky and was advertised as one. As he's gotten older, his coat has changed drastically (refer to pictures, it's crazy!) and he never grew into his ginormous fox-like ears.

He's now 11 months old and about 60 pounds.

Everyone I meet says that he looks like he has GSD in him, and sometimes I agree, but by all accounts he acts like a typical husky, though he's much more protective than I would have thought he'd be.

Based on this and attached pictures, what do you all think? Does he look purebred? Even if not it doesn't matter because I love him with all my heart, but I'm just curious!

Looks like a mix to me. Probably GSD, could be other things too. Husky tends to be a dominant breed so their traits tend to show through more than others but GSD tends to be similar and will pop through over other breeds that there might even be a higher percentage of. Sometimes poor breeding can produce a pure that doesn't look pure. I have a boy that looks a bit like a white GSD but he came back pure. There are two DNA tests that have pretty good accuracy. Embark and Wisdom Panel. Embark will give you more health analysis as well as breed analysis while Wisdom just does a couple health analysis like MDR1 gene mutation and breed analysis. I've done both and trust both fairly well if you wish to really find out and have the money. Embark will run you around $200. Wisdom runs around $140.