Swedish Vallhund Questions

I know nothing about the breed (Swedish Vallhund) but my limited understanding is that they typically have that greyish guard hair along their backs and masked face. Though colours vary as the following site shows.
www.minikota.4t.com/catalog.html

Your dog reminds me in some ways of the queens Corgi / long haired Dachshund cross (i.e a Dorgi). Cant find image of the dog I was thinking of so some general pictures will have to do!!
www.dogbreedinfo.com/dorgi.htm

Thank you for the response you two It's so difficult without a DNA test I know, but looking at her and the images of dachshund / corgis she doesn't really fit that, but then each cross can be completely different so I suppose it's not entirely accurate.

The reason I thought she might be a Vallhund is because of her coat colour (black and tan mixed, almost like a wolf/german shepherd), but the place where we got her from, and also on her passport, states that she is a mixed breed and the corgi is definitely apparent if she is indeed mixed. I find it difficult to imagine a corgi and a german shepherd mating though haha, but I suppose it's possible

And thank you for the comment Gilly ^_^ she is very beautiful and ever so loving x

EDIT: I forgot to mention that she was rescued from Romania so the breeds their may be a bit different. Another possibility we saw was the corgi/romanian wolf because of the fur colour/length and also she is very timid and makes sort of growly noises when she's excited.

I did the same. LOL.

I would go with definitely not Valhund! I have an Elkhoud and through her I know people who own both Elkies and valhunds. Valhunds are still a fairly rare breed and kept by enthusiasts who do everything they can do protect the breed the world over - so from that side of things I would say no as well; having said that accidents do happen in every circle.

Corgis can have the markings you describe and can have the same 'harsh' texture that German Shepherds have.

I'd say that there is definitely corgi there!

Haha, it does look like that may be the case Gilly   Well, in any case she's beautiful and we love her.

Maybe one day we'll get a dna test to make absolutely sure, purely for curiosity sake 

Was she a Romanian street dog or a pet dog put into rescue? My experience is that street dogs from Romania are completely random bred and are unlikely to have high percentages of any breed in their make up, more a total mix. I think the "Romanian wolf" idea is wrong though, wolves are very unlikely to breed with dogs (unless captive bred and even then unlikely) and would more likely kill them. Also wolves aren't so likely to be living in urban areas, whereas street dogs generally would. Definitely not vallhund and I'd say corgi is probably fairly unlikely too as corgis aren't very popular outside the UK as far as I know.

Perhaps there is some Carpathian sheepdog in there somewhere as they are more of a local breed, and/or some farming stock GSD as they are very widespread. As I say though, the majority of street dogs in Romania are not pure bred or even crossbreeds, they are random bred complete mutts. A blood test may find what percentages of everything there is, but it's very unlikely to be just two or even four things. Your dog could be the result of many generations of random breeding, all of the street dogs from Romania that I've met have been.

Also there is a short legged variety of the Transylvanian hound which is only found in Hungary and Romania, could possibly have a contribution to the short leggedness.

We never had them when I was a kid either haha, my well worn dog book (which I still have and is still one of my fav books haha) hardly has any breeds compared to what there is now! But I love learning about dog breeds and have two great apps on my phone about dog breeds, both of which contain a lot of rarer breeds.

I've never actually seen a Corgi in my life haha, and I'm sure they are on the vulnerable native breeds list that the kennel club has, or at least one of them is and the other is virtually on it. They seem like nice dogs, so it's a shame, but I'm more worried about my favourite breed, the Scottish Deerhound, being on that list, and Greyfriars Bobbys breed the Skye Terrier! At least the Queen will keep corgis from going extinct haha, who's gonna help my beloved deerhound before I have the space to get one?