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WHAT BREED IS MY DOG?

WE WISH WE KNEW FOR SURE, BUT WE GUESS AT THE DOG'S BREED
WE LOOK AT PICTURES OF EARS, TAILS, COLOR PATTERS, FEET SIZE-- WEBBED OR NOT, HAIR OR FUR, WIRE, LONG, SHORT, SOFT, ROUGH, SLENDER NOSE, BOXY NOSE, TURNED UP NOSE, BROAD CHEST, NARROW CHEST, LARGE DOG, SMALL DOG, BREED OF MOM, BREED OF DAD?

DNA and Dogs
for more information read,
"What we can and can't learn from our pets DNA."

Did I Just Adopt A Pit Bull!
Our Family Does Not Want a Pit Bull!  

If you have thought about this in your family, probably better off not adopting from us or any mutt on the planet.

Case in Point 

Sweetie now 12 years old, adopted from a shelter, thought to be a Greyhound mix.  DNA test revealed Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Staffordshire Terrier, German Shepherd and Rottweiler.

LOOKING FOR CLUES
TO ATTITUDES IN THE DNA? 

KARMIC RESCUE WITHOUT BORDERS, OUR VOLUNTEERS, OUR VETS, AND FRIENDS HAVE FUN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE BREED OF A DOG.

Will the dog bother someone's allergies? Does the dog have any Pit Bull, Shepherd, or Chihuahua? If it weighs more than 10 pounds, it must not be part Chihuahua, right? If it's black with long ears, it must be some Labrador, right? If it's small, it will certainly bark a lot! Looks like a Pit Bull, must be a Pit Bull.

WHAT BREED IS MY ADOPTED DOG?

​the ears have it

erect, drop, bat, rose, semi-pricked, button, butterfly, candle-flame, filbert, folded, or somewhere in between?

no! it's the tail that tells the tale

smooth,  short, medium?
​long, wire, hairless too?

what will my DNA tell you

An expert in the field of DNA research, Dr. Gunter says, "Scientists don’t yet know precisely how the behaviors of different breeds combine in a dog, Gunter points out. “Genetic influences of multiple breeds do not combine like dabs of differently colored paints or dashes of our favorite attributes,” she says. “I’m uncertain how informative it is to know the breed heritage of your mixed breed dog if we don’t know how multiple breeds affect behavior.” Maybe it’s better, she says, to just take your dog’s behaviors and work with them."