My sister gave me a “Dog DNA” test for my birthday for my new dog. He came back as a Malamute/Collie/Husky mix which, judging from his appearence, is probably pretty accurate.
If he’d come back as a chihuahua//poodle/pit bull I’d have no faith whatsoever.
Anyone tried it on a dog where you KNEW its breeding? Did yours come back with a reasonably true result?
We don’t know the breeding of our dog, but she is a black and white smaller (55 lbs) lab looking dog, so we were pretty sure she is a lab/border collie, and that is what Wisdom Panel came back with, plus some distant Treeing Walker Coonhound which sure explains several of her mannerisms, so I sure believe it is pretty accurate from my experience. And I tried another test before that (Heritage I think it was) which said we just had a lab (a black and white lab?).
I had accurate results. It came back dead on for my Catahoua/Heeler, and I’d be dipped if my GSD/Heeler isn’t that. It’s what we guessed when we adopted him, and what the Wisdome Panel came up with. He looks like a solid colored Heeler with a GSD face, tail, and gate. And red merle feet. And blue merle underbelly.
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My sister gave me a “Dog DNA” test for my birthday for my new dog. [/QUOTE]
You just gave me a great idea for a birthday present for a couple of people! Thanks!
I think they’re fairly accurate as long as the dog has parents or grandparents that were relatively pure.
My girl came back as “AmStaff/Lhasa Apso.” The first breed is what we guessed, the second seems to indicate that she’s probably just too damn mutty to get a read on it. I always thought she was more of an AmStaff/Hound mix, and she’s from Georgia so it would make sense that she might have some hound blood in her.
We did one on the dog we adopted from a local shelter on her first “adoptaversary” just for kicks. Based on her build and mannerisms, we guessed there was a fair amount of boxer in there…the shelter guessed Boxer/Weimeraner…and we were thinking boxer mixed with some kind of hound or pointer, as she’s got a hound voice, an incredibly strong prey drive, and points at birds/squirrels/bunnies/etc.
Wisdom panel came back as Boxer/Miniature Bull Terrier…here’s the dog we tested:
not seeing any mini bull terrier in there…
I’ve not done it. I have two dogs, both of whom came from AKC registered parents and are very much in line w/ breed standards. It might be a fun experiment if I ever have some blow money. In the past, most of the vets I had talked to about the DNA testing thought it was pretty inaccurate when you truly had a “mutt” that was more than a few generations removed from a pure line but I have zero empirical data to support that claim. The vets seemed to feel that it was akin to hiring a psychic. LOL
We did it on our Heinz 57 Mutt…He’s a shaggy little thing with an attitude at times (very stubborn), great hunter, best mouser ever and smart as can be…
The results were hard to believe while reading them, but I can see every single breed of listed dog in Lenny. I forget the exact %'s but he’s Irish Setter, Great Dane, Poodle, Shitzu and Lhasa .
We adopted a pup that the shelter listed as a dachshund/ACD mix. She looks nothing like either - a TALL but small 19lb dog with hilariously huge, floppy ears. Short album here: http://imgur.com/a/mvW3Z.
The shelter was adamant that the mother was a dachshund. While the father was unknown, the owners of the dach had a neighbor with an intact ACD, so that was the guess for the father.
Regardless, I was so sick of people informing me she was a chihuahua on steriods that I got the Wisdom Panel kit. Lo and behold, she is indeed a dach/ACD mix! She’s not pure half and half, but the mother was predominantly dach and the father was predominantly ACD. The rest of her background is too mixed to detect, but they gave me a list of “possible” breeds, which included chinese crested, bulldog, american water spaniel, welsh terrier, and duck tolling retriever 
Ha!
My dog is the pup of a rescued momma dog who looks and acts like a Brittany (including similar haircoat) but she (mom) is black with white trim and has “flying nun” ears. Her pups (7) were born at the rescue so we know that all pups came from this mom.
The pups were black and white, border collie type markings, and two merles. mine is one of the merles, with lots of blue and red speckled white dispersed on her whole body. Her sibling had a Wisdom Panel done and it came back 1/2 ACD (dad presumably) and the mom’s side was 50% Brittany Spaniel and 50% mixed (Dalmatian, Shiba inu, whippet, Scottie and Pom). Totally can see that! That fits what Pais (my pup) looks like. Blue merle, speckles and personality of the ACD, white splotches of Brittany, leggy, FAST, and short coated like the Whippet. She weighs 26# and was born with a natural docked tail as we’re 3 sibs. Brittanies I believe can be born w short tails. Just for fun, I ran Paisley’s DNA thru the WP. She came back 1/2 ACD and 1/2 Dachsund/West Highland Terrier. None of the breeds that her sibling had. I have no idea how that could happen! They lost some credibility there for me.
Does Wisdom Panel detect Wolf or Coyote DNA?
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Anyone tried it on a dog where you KNEW its breeding? Did yours come back with a reasonably true result?[/QUOTE]
Here is a dual registered purebred dog’s DNA panel results :lol:
I need to DNA my dog in order to compete at the nationals.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/972057_632833680067840_764929219_n.jpg
Does anyone know if the AKC kit will give the same type of results as the ones mentioned above?
http://classic.akc.org/store/products/index.cfm?category_cde=DNA&product_view=thumb
I’ll be happy to share my results when we get them. There shouldn’t be any surprises since we know his history for 5+ generations…
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I need to DNA my dog in order to compete at the nationals.[/QUOTE]
See my earlier post about the dual-registered UKC & AKC CH’s DNA panel results. I’m afraid you may get a surprise.
I think it’s a pile of manure that your breed club is requiring DNA panels for participation. To me, sounds like another AKC money-making rule.
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None of the breeds that her sibling had. I have no idea how that could happen! They lost some credibility there for me.[/QUOTE]
I know with cats can have multiple fathers in the same litter. I would assume that if a female dog in heat was covered by a couple of males over the course of a couple of days or in one day the puppies could have different fathers.
I’ve heard from people I trust that they are largely a bunch of hooey.
Fun party game, though.
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See my earlier post about the dual-registered UKC & AKC CH’s DNA panel results. I’m afraid you may get a surprise.
I think it’s a pile of manure that your breed club is requiring DNA panels for participation. To me, sounds like another AKC money-making rule.[/QUOTE]
It has nothing to do with AKC, it’s the breed club. And from what I’ve heard it has more to do with field breeders adding in a “little touch of something else” to make the hunting dogs more competitive with other pointing breeds. (Some of the AFC/NFC dogs have been pretty darn gigantic and not very “typey” looking…if you know what I mean.) I have no idea if those rumors are true, but I suspect that the DNA tests are not really for the show breeders.
http://clubs.akc.org/brit/2012/ABCNationalAmateurChampionship_winners.jpg
(Check out the dog in the middle)
As for whether there will be a surprise or not - I think it will depend on whether the tests are set up the same way as the kind being sold to “pet owners”. AKC has had a DNA registry for some time for breeding, so I’m not sure if it is really the same type of test. (E.g. I doubt it will say “Collie, German Shepard and Chihuahua” but I really don’t know.)
As to the post above about multiple sires - yes, it is definitely possible for littermates to have different sires.
My friend did the DNA test, and his dog came back 50% chihuahua… There is no way his dog is 50% chihuahua…
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I know with cats can have multiple fathers in the same litter. I would assume that if a female dog in heat was covered by a couple of males over the course of a couple of days or in one day the puppies could have different fathers.[/QUOTE]
Yes. My dog when I was a kid came from a litter where ALL the puppies were vastly, vastly different. Obviously multiple daddies.
Absolute waste of money.
http://pinterest.com/pin/52284045647016248/
They include a lot of fairly rare breeds that are hardly going to show up as part of a shelter mix (Ibizan, really?).
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