Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dobe n.1

also dobie
[abbr.]
(US)

a Doberman dog.

[US]H.S. Thompson letter 20 April in Proud Highway (1997) 332: Now and then I see a Dobe on a leash.
[US]C. Hiaasen Native Tongue 135: ‘Ten bucks it’s a Dobie.’ ‘No way.’ [...] ‘I say Rottweiler, that’s the dog nowadays.’.
[US]J. Stahl Pain Killers 180: ’That’s like sewing a Doberman’s head on a goat.’ [...] ’Have you tried that? [...] The goat and Dobie?’.