Can someone give me some info on dog DNA testing to find out the breed?
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at
5:21 pm
We have a mutt and were curious in finding out what breeds she is made up of. I've heard of sending your dogs DNA to places to find out what they're made up of. I was wondering if someone can recommend a good place to do this, that's affordable and accurate. Has anyone else done this, and if so, what kind of results did you get?
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The best place to get the DNA test done is to go to your local vet (hopefully you like them!). I should be pretty accurate and depending on the vet I don’t know how much it costs. I have a friend that did this and it cost her about $60 I think. Her dog looks like a wire haired pointer, and he is cream in color. They new he was a mutt so they did the DNA test and the results came back very surprising. The results are shown in a circle – there are pictures and names of the dogs your dog is mixed with – the closest to the middle is what your dog is mostly the farther away the less of that breed is in the dog. My friend’s results were Wire haired pointer (was closest to center) and yellow lab and brittney spaniel were farther away but the same distance. So, after she got the results back she thought about it and he mostly looks like the wire haired pointer, he got the yellow labs color, and he has the body shape of a brittney spaniel! Funny huh?? Good luck hope you go for it and get some great results:)
We used a service called DNA My Dog (dnamydog.com). They were about $60. We thought our dog was a lab mix and it came back Lab and Norweigan Elkhound, which is exactly what he actually looks like. They measure in percentages of each breed. I think a few other places have this test but this is the one we used. Great certificate, too!
I work at a large vet clinic and we get this question all the time. Having done over 100 dogs using these tests I would check out DNA Diagnostics Center. http://www.vetdnacenter.com
We have found them to be very accurate and reasonably priced at $60…and they just need a cheek swab sample so you can collect the sample yourself at home.