mongrel

The mongrel called Mona escaped from its pet carrier on the way to a plane, running off across the runway in Buenos Aires, pursued by three vans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

They have not yet missed Stuart Broad's bowling because of how few pacemen have been chosen on the tour, but they have missed his mongrel.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

Soviet scientists picked Laika, a stray mongrel found on the cold streets of Moscow.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022

“Like many of us, I’m a mongrel, a hybrid, made up of many things,” she writes in the title essay.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

The closest I ever came to having a pet was an old mongrel that used to hang around the neighborhood.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

Then, in May 1982, Leo, I and our two mongrels, Mabel and Barbara, were invited to Longleat for the weekend.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019

Emily Mortimer’s character in “Lovely and Amazing” keeps adopting ragged mongrels, until finally one bites her in the face.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

We drew a small crowd of local spectators: Workmen, sea gulls and neighborhood mongrels watched quizzically as we tried on life jackets and adjusted our kayaks’ seats and rudders.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2018

So Karlsson and her colleagues, including Jesse McClure, a former dog trainer for the US Marine Corps, decided to collect data from mongrels as well as pure-bred dogs and to crowdsource the data collection.

From Nature ● Jan. 25, 2016

Dogs barked at his heels wherever his long-legged stride carried him, and he snarled back at them, sometimes even spitting, which only made the flea-bitten mongrels yap more hysterically.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols