Shelter dogs often come with a few surprises. Some develop unexpected character traits, others turn out to have more breeds in their background than anyone guessed. And then there are rare cases like Indigo, whose true identity was far more astonishing than anyone imagined.
When a retired Army veteran from Florida brought Indigo home, she believed she had adopted a Mastiff and Labrador mix.
Indigo certainly looked like a bully breed, but nothing about her appearance suggested what the DNA test later proved. The results were completely different from what the shelter had written.
A Startling Revelation
A Reddit user known as Unable-Wolverine7224 shared Indigo’s story online, and it quickly gained widespread attention.
“I adopted this little badger from my local Animal Shelter at 12 wee

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