
It might not have been a match that anyone expected, but its result is adorable. Meet Rami, a dog with an incredibly unique heritage: he is the offspring of a stocky, broad-chested pit bull and a stubby-legged lithe dachshund. This peculiar-looking dog was found in a backyard in Georgia with no home to call his own.
Rami was transported to the nearest animal shelter, and the shelter's first post introduced him with: “Hi! I'm Rami and I'm looking for my forever home. I'm full of energy. I don't like walking on a leash.” Keeping reading to see photos of this unique dog.
Once Rami's picture, featured below, was posted on the shelter's website, it had over 2.4 million hits within a day. Adoption offers poured in from around the world. His videos, like the one below, went viral, and his unusual parentage made him famous.
“It is a true pit bull head on a dachshund body,” said Dawn Blanton, director of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society.
Despite the many adoption offers submitted for Rami, the Society determined that Rami's fame had given him a new purpose in life. The Society was concerned with making sure that Rami went to the right home, and that he wouldn't be treated like a freak of nature.
So the Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society decided to keep Rami and appoint him as a shelter ambassador.
These days, Rami stays busy as both shelter ambassador and as a therapy dog for feral canines that the Humane Society is called in to locate and assist. He is paying forward the love and care he has received so he can help other dogs who are lost and lonely as he was once.
Follow Rami's good works on his Facebook page with 8,000+ followers and help Rami out by visiting your local shelter to donate, volunteer, or give an animal a loving home.
Watch Rami below as he playfully runs around the Society's central office:
This is Rami. The Dachshund / Pit bull mix.
Posted by Moultrie Colquitt County Humane Society on Tuesday, January 27, 2015
So what should we call Rami? A pitshund? A dachbull? How about just calling him beautiful! Here's hoping that Rami has many happy years ahead as a wonderful representative of his extraordinary species: the dog.
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RESOURCES CNN AND RAMI'S FACEBOOK PAGE
Stephanie Jancar
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That’s totally my kind of dog!
Greg Jancar
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Looks like Bella’s head on shumps body
Clinton R Frye
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Had a friend that had one. They are the coolest doggies!
Debora Villalba
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Cristina Esplugas
Sunè Le Roux
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Schalk Conradie Henk Conradie
Catherine Baffa
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Oh so cute
Catherine Baffa
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Every dog is cute
Madelyn Smith
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Kirsten Baker Conner Hrabal
Hailey Barnard
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Oh my gosh Zack I just looks like a short pit. It’d be cuter if it had ears like Thor
Wolf Ander
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Poor dogs ears are mutilated.
Kirsten Baker
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He looks so sweet and stumpy!
Lisa Campbell
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He is adorable!
Christina Marie Philbin
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Omg I want him! David Antishin
Charlotte Elizabeth Anderson
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Hahaha
Alice Ellwood
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To be fair this dog is cute & quirky!
Tasha Hollie Benjamin DeFrance
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This is sick
Rebecca Rabalais
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No one is praising cross breeding but many pure breeds have known problems , so most cross breeds have better health. It was an accident of dogs! Get over it.
Jorjie Foster
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Marina Marie
Glenys C Saavedra
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This photo is old… He is adorable. I’d take him in a heartbeat- could you imagine the holes he’d dig with the strength of a pit backing those weiner “shovel legs”
Marina Marie
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Ahh..cute
Jorjie Foster
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If Nala and Gus had a baby… lol
Marina Marie
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I know.. it be just like that
John Smith
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Shelley Marie Walker
Carlee Carbis
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Darren Dulling
Jayell Fisher
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Did someone cut this dogs ears off??? Sick!!
Ian Burcher
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Hannah Alyce
Kevin Smith
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That has got to be one of the ugliest dogs I have ever seen. Looks like something from the underworld.
Ralitsa Veleva
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Cuteness
Angela Donovan
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It’s a fake picture.
Sally Ann Rivers
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This should never happen . This poor pup is a freak of nature. Shame!
Mary Godlewski Head
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Ray-chel TLynn
Maria Tantuco
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William Kong
Ray-chel TLynn
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Oh yeah I saw him last year 🙂
Ray-chel TLynn
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Adorable
Alice Louise Koolhof
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Lol…..too freaking cute.
Amanda Hayden, Kim Oliver
Tori Carpenter
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Cory Ford Ahtuangaruak
Lesly Negrita Bella Borja Calderon
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QUE LINDO
Quinn McLaughlin
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Weiner dog with a Pibble head, Poor dog
Jannie Duncan
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Rami sweetie
Kathy Harrington
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Kasey Harrington
Kevin Connolly
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We have one too
Renee Belanger
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Aw Brittany Good if only Molly wasn’t such a$#%&!@*her and deuce coulda made cute babies!
Kasey Harrington
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So cute
Karen Bula Tapper
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Here’s mine!
Brittany Good
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Haha aww my friend actually has a pitbull with short legs looks like that
Linda Englund
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Betty Jones
Tommy Frank
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The vet told me my boy had pitt in him. He is a doxie mix and when you look at his head and face you can see the pitt.
Caroline Canuel Therriault
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Michael Boucher
Kevin Littrell
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Vicki Beard-Littrell
Joel Linnie
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Storys like 4 years or more old