Name this kind of dog

A Dalmation? (Well, that's what they told me at the pet store.)

That's a Tasmanian spot dog.

Pointers.

Blue heelers?

So far none of the suggestions look like the dogs I'm talking about.

They'll have huge black spots. Maybe a whole ear is black or the head is mostly black.

Australian cattle dogs?

no r6 they have the build and size of a lab a little skinnier maybe

thanks though

Poodle

Miniature Great Dane? Gargantuan Chihuahua? German Pointer?

German Shorthaired Terrier

^ er, pointer

If it's not a pointer or an Australian cattle dog it may be one of my favorite breeds Catahoula Leopard Dog

is it oneof these linked? a picture may show brown spots but many spotted dogs can be either brown or black

Is it the elusive Brazilian Spotted Stink-Poodle?

Corgi

Bluetick Coonhound

Snoopy.

Is it Peanut?

German Shorthaired Pointer is a very handsome dog.

Is it a rescue dog?

Dollface thread.

It’s MISS Peanut, R18, if you’re nasty. And there’s only one official Peanut here.

I really don’t care. Do you?

Sounds like you're describing a merle coloration. They exist in many breeds but they aren't supposed to in a lot of them

Like Merle Norman?

r16 is kind of close except for the head.

These dogs weren't that hound like. More Lab looking.

Maybe they were muts. I didn't realize this would be so hard to identify. (They were two dogs in my neighborhood that I played with as a kid. They were such fun and good looking dogs that I always wanted one.)

Thanks for all the ideas though.

There are merle and brindle labrador retrievers.

OP/R26 Sounds like an English Pointer (probably not a German Shorthaired Pointer as these are generally liver and white). They are Gundogs (like Labs) and are around the same size but with a more athletic build, and have very variable large colour patches/spots with small spots (known as ticking) covering the rest of the white coat, which is just as you have described.

I hate liver

Wow both r27 and r28 could be right.

I don't remember them being that svelte as the pointer so maybe r27 has it. I remember them being very lab like (at least one of them. The other one had a smaller head!)

Thanks. I'm not sure now. Could be either or some combo.

Catahoula Leopard Dog?

What kid DIDN’T grow up playing with the neighborhood Catahoula Leopard Dog?