She was white with liver spots, she had the ears and the head and the tummy tuck, and the tail, and she pointed. I will say that breed stereotyping delayed my adopting a beautiful dog for a good 6 months or more. For instance, obviously I have Corgis and they have a very strong instinctive tendency to chase and bite the legs of people. Dogs should not be treated as throw away items when they don’t live up to your expectations or fail to fit the behavioural type. You can hug and squeeze Maddie and she loves it; Jack hates feeling restrained. And since I had cats at home, that wasn’t going to work. I know the quoted time is 2-3 weeks after the lab receives your sample, but I also have found that a lot of people got their results much more quickly. It would seem the the GSD contributed color and not much else in the looks department. Kat, I will be honest: I tend not to be a fan of any of the big protection dogs and/or fighting dogs. To the pet owner who wants a cuddly lap dog it helps. Sally’s results showed that she was a carrier for hypocatalasia (aka acatalasemia and . When the owner said “pit bull”, the person who had just been loving all over this dog literally jumped back several feet with a look of horror and would only re-approach the dog after some discussion and coaxing/support from our trainer. I’d be thrilled if my dog was unclassifiable by breed – genetic diversity is the key to evolutionary success and health. Good news, the breeder did not lie to us. I am more ‘stunned in respectful awe’ when I see a GSD or an Akita out with a sensible owner/guardian. Telling the owner what a lovely dog she was, and how well-behaved, and what kind of dog was she? Kuddos to you. The dog, btw, is black and white.. hmmmmmmm). Both pittie and Dogue are powerful dogs in their own right. For years I fostered and worked with mixed breed rescues from difficult backgrounds. If Mars is now saying they are 90% accurate, I presume ONLY with F1 crosses, ie, the offspring of two purebreds which is all they have ever claimed any accuracy for, then they have apparently made some progress. By discovering a dog’s ancestry, pet owners and veterinarians can work together to tailor wellness plans that fit the unique one-of-a-kind needs of a dog. When I say that literally every person who so much as looked at us was met with “Would you mind petting the puppy, we are socializing him” and every dog we met led to me asking it’s owner how the dog was with other dogs, and meeting all but the meanest, I am not exaggerating. At everything. However, in some cases one’s dog really contains such an amalgam of genes that it is truly impossible to associate any breed to it. So, you could say that no one needed dog parks historically. She was not tense at all, but clearly watching and evaluating. I had another woman laugh at me and say that he might be a shepherd cross, but he was definitely not a full shepherd, and then proceeded to list his faults. Finna’s surrender paperwork said she was a Corgi/GSD, her vets both guessed cattle dog they first time they saw her. Thanks for sharing those pictures. If you do enough reading and a little more research, the story becomes how dangerous these bully dogs are to everything we stand for as Americans. One of the main differences between these two tests is that Wisdom Panel 4.0 can only be ordered on the official website while you can purchase 3.0 from e-commerce retailers, not on the site. I am normally fairly reserved with strangers, and I went well outside my own comfort zone to make sure he met as many dogs as he possibly could. Wisdom Panel kits arrived standard USPS mail within 2-4 days of buying directly from the Wisdom Panel website. They are excited by motion, but won’t continue to follow once the critter disappears. The breeds that were detected are all quite believable, in my opinion. When we say “this dog is a Lab” to use Mary K.’s example, meaning this dog is a good family pet instead of saying this Lab lunges at other dogs, this Lab drags people on the leash, this Lab tenses up at noises, etc. He’s calm, confident, high status, about as bomb proof as they come, smart, and a herder. They are not related closely to the livestock guardian dogs, the mastiff/war dogs or any of the modern “protection” breeds. Sidney ended up getting back-to-back analyses. Over the past 20 years or so, there have been tremendous investments in campaigns encouraging people to get shelter dogs instead of buying a puppy. Breed Testing: 350+ I’m not saying that *everyone* needs dog parks. In the end, what breed your dog is is not as important as remembering that every dog is an individual. After all, our pedigree dogs derived from the village dog. And yes, I saw the BC B&W colouring, the Boston Terrier head and overall look, and the Bulldog for its wider chest and head maybe. We don’t have kids. However, we’ll see! Might there be 3 BC’s in 100 who are low-energy? Wow! Kat, I really like the idea in the blog of describing behaviors instead of giving subjective descriptions of them. I genuinely admire your work, and so was a bit surprised to see that myth perpetuated here. After all, English Staffies were often known as ‘Nanny Dogs’ in England – Labs and Staffies are two very different breeds with different traits and defence responses. I don’t know if it’s Wisdom characterizing Am Staffs as a “guardian” breed… they are NOT and never have been. Her dog of choice (at that time in the country males were almost never neutered) was the Irish Setter down the road–about two miles away. The computers (each dog’s analysis requires 7 million runs) look at 321 “markers” on the chromosomes in the sample, looking for patterns of base-pairs in the strands of DNA. As the owner of two very sensitive dogs (Otis is my mood-ring, Sandy is the appeaser supreme), I can assure you that when an owner feels fear, tension, apprehension, impatience, anxiety, or frustration it absolutely can generate different behavior in a dog than when an owner faces a situation feeling happy and relaxed. Dogs by their breeding alone can not be judged to be ‘good’ with children IMO. New Features: Wolf and Coyote Detection. Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. But what does that mean in a modern society, where the jobs simply don’t exist anymore? It is a marvel to me that such magnificent creatures have so fully integrated themselves into our human way of living in the world. Secondly, lots of info here about DNA breed testing. His owners mentioned he came from the shelter. Lily could be a Parson Russell/Fox Terrier mix and if she is taller than what I think she seems, with Fox hound, Harrier, or Beagle mixed in as well. For the person who wants a dog to alert to strangers at the door, the person who wants a swimming buddy for the lake, the person who wants a jogging partner, the person who wants a good shop dog to greet clients, the person who wants to have a tracking dog to do search and rescue, it means a lot. I read this all the time on Gun Dog breeder’s websites – ‘the breed loves children’. Terrier? It is interesting to me that it is being said that true fanciers of a certain breed would never say that all individual dogs of that breed would “be good with kids.” When I do information gathering on breeds in books, websites, or even when watching televised dog shows such as Westminster, it is very often stated of certain breeds that the breed makes “wonderful family pets” or has a “natural affinity for children.” Hmmmmmm, I must be looking in all the wrong places. However, there are other more practical applications: Once one knows if there are purebred lines well represented in one’s “mutt,” one can also ask for Genetic Mutation Tests to be done. Better to say (in the case of Maddie) “That dog stares and some dogs react to it.” Or in the case of many bouncy young dogs like labs and boxers “This dog does not respect personal space and that can make other dogs feel threatened.” And so on. Met a woman once who found a ‘dumped’, tiny, 5wo puppy in a school window well, & named him “Darwin”, having NO idea what evolve into. Can you see it? But we all know that real children smell, look, sound, and move much differently than a fake one. My dog was swabbed last Saturday and I'm waiting on the results right now (it says it's being analyzed). Many aspects of breeds also involve storytelling. They felt that they had wasted their money, and clearly wanted to get results that listed a breed, any breed, in the report. I will say that I got Pixie, a stray that I found roaming the streets, DNA tested, partly because I wanted to know whether she was a rat terrier, or a smooth-coated Jack Russell. 1-16 of 25 results for "wisdom panel" Skip to main search results Eligible for Free Shipping. Honestly, I never was a big one to encourage puppies to chase. Thus, the ONLY place many dogs get to just run and explore an large enough outside place is a dog park. Solo looks like she might be thinking about having her lamb(s), I’m hoping for a single. Neither are they saying that Leo is, for example, exactly 21.86% German Spitz, but rather, “…the relative strength of each result in our analysis with the most likely at the top of the list.” Exactly, then, what the percentages mean were unclear to me, until I spoke to several people at Mars itself. Last we saw, they only had one so naturally we stopped to talk. Who can explain that? Some people are so deeply mired in their prejudiced against bully breeds that they can even see a cute, wiggle butt, grinning puppy and assume it is mean. A mean, just wow. They both bark a lot. Breed Testing: 250+. I genuinely have no idea what he’s mixed with as I adopted him from a shelter as a pup. I’ve met so many husky owners who bought for the looks and then were baffled that their escape artist dog kept roaming the neighborhood for miles. I find this fascinating since I have been on both sides of the coin, so to speak. ! He failed to further explain how people are supposed to do this of course. Try to guess what you think he might be before you look at the results: http://imageshack.us/a/img546/5935/wisdompanel1.png Shows what I know… which is enough, I would add, to keep my mouth shut whenever anyone asks me to guess a breed.) Having been raised around “family-friendly” gun dogs I can assure you that we never would have been allowed to crawl in a crate with a dog, put our face near a dog who had food, take a dog’s bone, etc etc etc. I’m not sure about terriers but I think they fall into the “European” group; Europe is where most of the sub-divisions of dogs that WE think about developed, since the European middle class developed specialist dogs for every purpose. Now we can keep her safe from drugs to which she may be sensitive. reached in to separate the dogs only to be bitten by the other dog. Rabbits, no). Perhaps “cautious” is the better word. I acknowledged that they may have had different reactions in the past, and were therefore just sort of speaking to what they saw as a friendly crowd. But, as we are responsible for them, we should use science to ensure we selectively breed for ethically sound reasons – not simply because we think they look cute, behave aggressively or feel we have ownership over a type of breed because we happen to breed them ourselves. dog’s ancestry. (It also explains why some of these breeds show up as false positives, when the computer searches can’t find a match and in some electronic version of desperation, settles on a Catahoula. Overall, after all this, I have a much more nuanced understanding of what the results of the Wisdom Panel tests actually mean, and find the results to be extremely interesting.Much of the time I would argue that the motivation for the tests is to satisfy our curiosity, a trait I find to be one of humankind’s most useful and endearing. Since, I consider this function to be as necessary to my dog’s health as food and water, dog parks are most definitely necessary for my dog – and many others. However, lots of people see him and say Border Collie/Bernese Mountain Dog cross and you know what, I can pick and choose characteristics from those two breeds that absolutely match what he’s like. There is nothing wrong in my opinion about someone wanting a particular type of dog. We met a Corgi/German Shepherd cross (parentage known, accidental mating) that looked 100% like a coal-black Corgi. I just felt in my gut that given the dog and the circumstances in which it found itself, that it was inevitable that something bad was going to happen. Highly complex- often the source of great beauty, as well as all things opposite of what we admire. We live so close together that it’s just not safe. They were never bred to guard anything. All I can say after seeing Leo and Leo’s mom is OUCH! It’s a matter of welfare. I don’t care if you adopted your dog from a rescue; I don’t care if your pup came from a carefully researched breeder. Wisdom Panel kits arrived standard USPS mail within 2-4 days of buying directly from the Wisdom Panel website. If a gun dog chooses a passive defensive response, compared to a terrier’s active defensive response, the child suffers with the latter. I can, and do, take them for long walks but they need to meet other dogs to keep them socialized (I have two shy dogs). What a shame for your friend and the child. This was a family that had supposed dog and more specifically, breed experience. It is completely true and I have not embellished one word of it. Submit A Coupon for Wisdom Panel here. Small toy breed? Mary K – wow. Breed Percentages. As for bully breeds and canine “racism” I don’t think that anyone here has claimed that expecting people to know their dog and whether or not that dog is going to behave appropriately at a dog park is racism nor have I seen a claim that saying certain breeds do not in general do well at dog parks is ‘racist.’ What I’ve seen is the argument that using the breed or the tendency within that breed to demonize all dogs of that type in such a way that it leads to breed specific legislation and people automatically assuming that the dog will be a danger to them and to society is a form of racism. But at basis: all modern dog “breeds” were created using a variety of breeds and types of dogs. A newborn great dane will be approximately two pounds, not significantly larger than a German Shepherd or Labrador, for instance, but MUCH bigger than a newborn Shih Tzu. Which is precisely why I don’t care which breed is in front of me. They are doing right by the dog they have and not expecting him to be what they wanted his genetics to make him. You’ll discover how DNA and breed history can impact your pet’s behavior and health. The parents have wonderful friendly, outgoing, love everyone temperaments and yet this dog is never going to be a therapy dog. She spent the entire time scanning the store, especially noting anyone who came in the door. I get oxytociny everytime I see any dog. I got really worried for a minute there because it took a full week and a half for the results to actually make it to the lab! By the way, I think the huge majority of people who have a mixed-breed and do a breed test are just curious, and I think that’s wonderful. We started a  “Guess the Breed Background” contest this week after sending in a DNA sample of Katie’s dog, Leo to the Mars Wisdom Panel lab. We approached the dogs respectfully. Three of the dogs are registered therapy dogs; two of those are from the same breeding pair the third from a different pair. Being blind, it meant I sat besideMarlin, with his leash on and made sure i was around when my niece was petting him. My status has been analyzing for over a week now. MEANWHILE, back on the farm: Beyond blogs, grading term papers, and trying to keep up with email (ha! I think it is extraordinary and truly remarkable and I am so grateful to them every day for having done so. I’m curious about those 3 groupings of dogs: Where’s the terrier? The dog continued to be very people friendly and very dog reactive. < I love it when my dog does this - | You cant please all the people all the time. But it’s quite common, and if you want BC eye, get a border collie (or a Kelpie). Also, is it not said that all breeds are 99.8% (or was that 98%) genetically similar to each other? Others haven’t. Perhaps you have some insight on this already, but it is my understanding that the Boxer actually earned its name through a phonetic adaptation of Bullenbeisser and/or the other derivative German breed names, and actually has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Boxers (like many, many other breeds of dogs) ‘box’ with their paws. Perhaps that connection is misplaced sometimes – at a category or a cohort – as opposed to the individual dog. We opted to do the Wisdom Panel Health kits, which not only does breed detection but looks for over 150 genetic diseases as well. He engaged and smiled and made eye contact. Shipping | I appreciate that you are the type of owner who can deal with the dog you have, and it sounds like you have enough flexibility in your life to cope with different behaviors. Hummmm, Jim and I will have to see what we can manage! ... 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