Sometimes, on a walk, Daisy decides she’s had enough and will lie down on the sidewalk and refuse to go another step. That’s how she got her name since it rhymes with lazy.

We found her at the Berkeley shelter and brought her to her forever home on 5/7/25. That’s her official “gotcha” day. She has a very sweet disposition and looks very much like a Labrador Retriever, but there’s “something else” in there, too. We suspect an American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, or Staffordshire Bull Terrier. The shelter called her a Lab “mix.”

I did something I never thought I’d do, but I sent off her DNA sample just out of a healthy curiosity. And guess what? She’s not even a LITTLE bit Labrador Retriever, which supremely shocked us all.

Oh dear! Here’s a photo of the Canario dog! This looks a lot like our Daisy, but much bigger, and they can get huge! Oh no!

The good news is she’s mostly a mix of bully breeds and hopefully that will keep her small-ish. She’s been settling into our domestic home life and the only problem is she doesn’t like to walk which is my primary form of exercise.

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