How about IDing my dog too - Page 2

[MrsMike]

She is gorgeous. I see pit. Unsure of the other half. Lab, maybe? I just called another dog in another thread a lab/pit, too.

Beware of those DNA tests. We have seen some mightily laughable results from them.

[ChristaN]

Dh really doesn't think that she has pit in her. He had a pit mix when he and I first got together and she was just much more "buff" than Bianca. Our vet, too, has said that she is too narrow and petite boned to have much pit in her. She has pretty narrow feet/leg bones -- much thinner even than a lab -- and her head and muzzle are fairly narrow as well. Her jaw is wider than her muzzle, but the pit puppies and dogs that I've seen at the humane society (we volunteer there) have really blocky heads. I'm not opposed to having a pit mix, I'm just not sure that's what she is.

[my2girlz]

Here's our pit/boxer mix just to give you a comparison. She's very muscular and weighs in around 50lbs.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs173....7_867265_n.jpg

[GearGirl]

I think the part that looks like pit is the catahoula, maybe mixed with a lab or something!

[ErinYay]

Whatever she is, she's 100% sweetie!

The best dog-DNA test on the market is still lacking identifiers for many breeds, including, IIRC, most of the bullies (APBT, Am Staff, Staffies), so those mixes don't ever show up.

And we always like to assume our dogs are 25%, 25%, 50%, etc, of whatever breeds, but the mixes are often much more diluted than that. A mix breeds with a mix, so on and so forth.

Catahoula only really makes sense if you're in the southeast, otherwise they're pretty rare dogs. It's safe to rule out the other more exotic breeds, like Vizsla and Pharaoh Hound, as they're really not common, so unlikely to be found in a mixed breed dog.

My guess is predominantly Lab, northern breed (some Husky-type), and bully breed. The fair nose and lips can be found in most pigmented dogs (it considered a fault in most breeds according to breed standards) so I wouldn't assume an exotic based on that alone.

She's wicked cute, regardless!

[ChristaN]

Originally Posted by ErinYay

...The best dog-DNA test on the market is still lacking identifiers for many breeds, including, IIRC, most of the bullies (APBT, Am Staff, Staffies), so those mixes don't ever show up.

The one we used had the most breeds in their database of any we found -- 170 -- and it did include APBT, Am Staffshire Terrier, etc. None of those came up for our dog.

And we always like to assume our dogs are 25%, 25%, 50%, etc, of whatever breeds, but the mixes are often much more diluted than that. A mix breeds with a mix, so on and so forth.

We do assume that she is a Heinz 57. I would actually have been fine with the test coming back saying that her breeds were too dilute to tell albeit somewhat disappointed. The test didn't say that, though. It said that she was 50%+ giant schnauzer and chow. I just find that hard to believe given her size, hair, etc.

Catahoula only really makes sense if you're in the southeast, otherwise they're pretty rare dogs. It's safe to rule out the other more exotic breeds, like Vizsla and Pharaoh Hound, as they're really not common, so unlikely to be found in a mixed breed dog...

I realize that some of these dogs are rare and may not be what she has in her. I have actually seen three Catahoula Leopard Hounds at the local dog park in the past month. Their owners identified them as such when questioned as to the breed. We have a ton of Weimeraners and Vizslas here as well. Golder retrievers and labs are the only other dogs I see more of than Weimeraners or Vizslas. Bianca certainly may have lab in her. I doubt Golden, though. I've never seen a Pharoah Hound locally that I know of.

[ChristaN]

So, I got a follow up call from the testing service b/c I had communicated back & forth with customer service telling them that I doubted the results. Their expert went back and looked at the DNA profile and tells me that she came up with:

The same main breed being chow. She said that at least one of her grandparents was 100% chow.

She reduced giant schnauzer down to a great-grandparent and also said that she had a great-grandparent who was a basset hound. She also said that she had small amounts of mini bull terrier (the Target dog in mini size) and shar pei.

She tells me that long hair is recessive in dogs, so if one parent gave the puppy a short haired gene, it doesn't matter if the other parent was a sheepdog, the puppy will have short hair. Anyone have a long haired dog who had a parent with only short haired genes (like mama was pure-bred lab and had long haired puppies)?