I know who I am!

An Aunt of mine had a Boston Terrier once upon a time. I thought I recognised those ears.

 

Webbed toes and love of swimming suggest Newfie (Newfoundland), but I don't see that listed.

Where ever you came from,you are ADORABLE!!! Asking mom to please deliver this on your wittle nosie: MWAH!

 

Cool! Did your vet use WisdomPanel? I picked up their brochure last time we were at the vet's, but I suspect our results would be "faint signals from breeds which are not strong enough to identify." And if they can identify some breeds, I won't be able to declare her as a Mystery Mutt anymore.

 

My parents did those tests on us when we were kids. It really works.

 

Your dog is adorable!

I didn't know they could do that (with a test). My dog is...a mystery. She's a rescue dog from Puerto Rico...There are some shelters here on the East Coast that bring up dogs from PR for adoption. She looks just like a Carolina Dog or other type of dingo, but when I met the rescue ladies from PR, they said that there are no dingos there.

Then again, my dog does have that odd-parts look, too, including weird stand-up ears that rotate independent of each other (one can turn forward and the other can turn backward at the same time). Mind if I ask which online pet store you used?

 

Thank you, Godiva. I will definitely do this when I have an extra $50. People are always commenting on/asking me about Trixie's breed and I would love to be able to tell them a bit more definitively.

Someone just told me she looked like a Portuguese Hound the other day. That was a totally new one.

 

I think I'm going to try this with Digby. The last one of these that I looked at did not include Min Pin as one of the breeds, but the Bio Pet Vet Lab does. We are pretty positive that Digby is part Min Pin, but I would love to know what the other part is.

I don't think it would work for Dingo; she looks to be at least part Australian Kelpie which isn't one of the breeds listed. From what I have read, it is pretty hard to determine if a Kelpie is "pure" unless you can trace back the ancestors. They are very similar to Australian Cattle Dog (which were bred from Kelpies and other dogs) and to Border Collies (they have ancestors in common). One book says Kelpies are similar to Border Collies except more independent and harder to handle. LOL.

Ramses does look somewhat like Dingo, but somehow not. He has a sleeker head and body than Dingo does. From the photos, I don't think his fur is as bushy as Dingo, especially the tail. I can see the sight hound build that he has. He looks very fast.

 

Oh yeah, I was going to add that Labs usually have relatively wide heads, but Ramses has a narrow head, like a sight hound.

 

I ordered the kit for Digby. I'm gonna think about it, maybe some day I'll order one for Dingo.

One reason Kelpies don't show up on any of the lists is because they are not an AKC recognized breed. They are common in Australia, but not very common here. Some people import them and breed them for working sheep.

I don't have a clue how she ended up in the animal shelter as a puppy. I found out that she was originally adopted as an 8 week old puppy because when I gave her microchip number to the clerk at the Sac Co Animal Shelter, she told me that number was already registered to a different dog. It turned out that the different dog was her when she was a puppy. They thought that she was a Chow-Chow. When she was about 1 year old, the original owners surrendered her to the SPCA and I adopted her. The SPCA had her listed as a Kelpie/Schipperke mix. One of the vets that examined her at the SPCA listed her as a Border Collie mix.

After looking at a lot of photos, I think she most resembles a Kelpie. She would be known as a Barb because she is all black except for the white chest. I don't think her body type is right for a Schipperke. Also, she seems too small (24 lbs) to be a Border Collie. Her weight and height put her on the small end of the profile for a Kelpie.

 

Wow, that is so cool!!

 

I finally got the results back for Digby. First of all, I think he is mostly Min Pin, but with some other small dog mixed in.

Here is a picture of Digby:



Here is a Min Pin:


Here is the result of the DNA test:

Digby is 20 - 36% Bull Terrier



Digby is 10 - 19% Great Dane (LOL)



Digby is less than 10% Brittany



Digby is less than 10% Pekingese



Digby is less than 10% Parson Russell Terrier



Digby is less than 10% Shih Tzu




We have started calling him the Mini Great Dane.

 

A friend of mine had her mix breed dog checked, too. For sure, we thought her dog had either pug or peke in him because of the smooshed face and the curly tail, but it wasn't even on the radar. Instead, all these other breeds came up (like yours, dogfriend). It really makes me wonder if they truly are doing the test... or if they're mixing up the samples. I mean, your pooch doesn't look remotely like any of those breeds, and like my friend's analysis didn't make much sense either.

 

My GF wonders if they did the test too. Maybe they just picked the breeds out of a hat.

The Great Dane part is pretty funny - Digby only weighs 15 lbs.

Our next door neighbor has a Great Dane - maybe the DNA somehow got on Digby's swab?

 

Just looking at him, I'd say he's 100% Digby.

 

Yep, he's 100% Digby.