Ok so a while back I was asking about doing DNA test. Well I finally found one that I could afford and did it and am mailing it in the morning. So I thought I would be fun to like guess the breed and when they get back we can see who is right. I have an idea with my male but no clue with my female.
So this is target (was told dalmatian bull terrier) I am guessing whippet maybe?
This is beast and I know for a fact he is a mastiff mix. Mix with what I have no idea all I see is mastiff.
This is the link if anyone else wants to try it. once I get the papers back I will tell you how it went and if it worked or not. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=370944112
yeah the test is fun when you KNOW what your dog is lol.
A vet clinic my friend is in tight with got a few "sample kits" earlier in the year and we swabbed her ACK Ch. Boston Terrier and AKC Ch. Keeshond(who is ranked as one of the top 20 kees in the country this year) They were two different tests so we thought it’d be fun lol.
We sent it in and a few weeks later got a certificate from Canine Heritage that the boston was a Cairn Terrier, Miniature Pinscher, Whippet. So not even remotely close lol.
And from DOG DNA (which sells the canine heritage XL - which is supposed to be the newer better version) we got a result on the Keeshond of Golden Retriever, Akita, and Samoyed. At least the second test included a breed at least in the spitz family lol.
hmmm I really want to get a dna testing done on my mixed breed girl, is there ANY dna testing place that you guys know of that I MIGHT get the right dna results from? (I wont KNOW for certain if they’re right as, I only know FOR SURE that she is a golden retreiver mix, the other mixes in her are high guesses)...however I don’t want to waiste money on a dna place only to find otu later that it screws up obvious purebreds for something they deffinatly aren’t lol so any good companies you guys could point me out to?
you can’t tell breed through DNA testing. No matter what anyone tells you, you can’t. Its just doesn’t work at this point. Its like looking at a person’s DNA and attempting to figure out if they were born in Utah or Maine.
There isn’t enough known about the canine genome to pick out specific alleles that can tell you breed. Especially when you consider how many breeds share ancestors and how many are extremely closely related - for example the Border Collie and the English Shepherd.
some of the people that have done them dont seem displeased with the results of the test.
the test the lady used in the video would come in handle if BSL came into your area , do the DNA test and you get border collie mix LOL you can use that to say your dog isn’t a APBT .
You know what a DNA test can be handy when done where BSL Laws are in place I mean they ask you to prove your dog is NOT a "Pit" what better can you think off!!
lol I love that ladies dog in the video. It just sits on that bed so nicely and wags its tail....
Hey maybe it detects color better than breed... border collies and boston terriers come in black and white!
I would still like to do one for my mutt. And it could be helpful when I move out of my parents home in the next year. I plan to take her with me but many places dont take bully breeds these days even though its not a law here (yet... knocks on wood) She has some pitty features and I fear they wont care what I say about what she is. I say greyhound lab mix =) Although just my luck her paperwork would probably come back listing a bully breed...
the test the lady used in the video would come in handle if BSL came into your area , do the DNA test and you get border collie mix LOL you can use that to say your dog isn’t a APBT .
Well the basic problem is that it is inaccurate posing as being accurate. That inaccuracy could condemn a dog just as easily as "save"it. So a dog with not a drop of a particular restricted breed could end up being killed if inaccurately reported as having that breed. Can we feel good about saving some and condemning others based on inaccurate results?
okay so maybe NONE of the tests so far are accurate? is what im getting from wht everyone is saying? Hopefully some day they lock in on it and get true breed tests done though....however i am confsued because I know some purebreed cocker spaniel groups im on get DNA testing done and do so to proove that their dogs are pure cockers...and they’ve gotten good results back...I don’t know if these tests are just through AKC or where I am not sure. Because teh big debate is about the color "merle" in cocker spaniels, its not an accepted showable color, however it’s still allowed to be registered AKC, as long as "merle" isn’t in the color listing...long story short, some people say that merle cockers are not true cockers...taht they are mixed...however it’s something like 3-6 generations of purebreeding that makes a dog a "purebreed" so people were discussing how merles when dna tested come back as purebred cockers, and people who feel that merle cockers aren’t purebreds still stand by their reasoning saying that "well yeah NOW they’re purebreds but they weren’t before" so what im getting at is somewhere some testing seems to be accurate...but to how far back accurate i’m unsure.
lol That video is pretty interesting. I’ve been curious what the results would be for my purebred golden retriever. Although I must say the results I got (from a different company than in the video) seemed pretty accurate for my mutt. But I plan on doing a second test to see if I get the same results or different, then I think I will get a better idea of the accuracy.
Niki wrote:
however i am confsued because I know some purebreed cocker spaniel groups im on get DNA testing done and do so to proove that their dogs are pure cockers...and they’ve gotten good results back...I don’t know if these tests are just through AKC or where I am not sure.
tha akc DNA testing tests lineage to prove the dog is truely part of the line that is registered with the AKC.
Right from the AKC site:
The Science Behind AKC DNA Profiles
AKC DNA Profiles are generated using the same technology used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world. How does this work? In humans and dogs alike, each gene is present as two copies (displayed as letters). Offspring receive one copy of each gene from each parent in a random process.
This technology does not use actual genes, but other DNA sequences that are also inherited one copy from each parent. For this reason, your dog’s AKC DNA Profile does not provide any information about the conformation of the dog or the presence/absence of genetic diseases. Furthermore, AKC DNA Profiles cannot determine the breed of a dog.AKC DNA FAQs
The tests are just used to prove the parents of the dog are registered AKC dogs, which means the dog is a purebred dog.
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