The final results are in!
This is my little trouble-maker Luna in her most dangerously cute puppy form:
Don't be fooled. She ate two cellphones while looking this innocent. It is a trap.
And this is Luna at four years old:
Luna is a bit of a rascal. She likes to grab leashes. Her own or anyone else's. Gracie is waiting for help to arrive. She was not trained for this situation.
And she loves to dig. Check out this den. She made it herself. She was quite proud.
And if she finds water, she jumps right in. Like a mother hen raising ducklings, Gracie does not understand this strange behavior. Water is for drinking, not for touching.
Luna is such a silly girl, she can't even turn it off when she sleeps.
Luna can't do a bat impression, like Gracie, but she is working on her seal impression. I think it's looking pretty good.
It must come naturally for her. She is a water dog.
According to the breeder, Luna is a labrador retriever. A silver lab or dilute chocolate lab to be precise. She has a pedigree and everything. Although her color does not meet the breed standards, so she probably wouldn't win any awards at a dog show.
Still, she has won my heart. Not only is she a total goofball, but she is very dedicated, people-oriented, and easy to train, despite being pretty stubborn sometimes.
But is she really a labrador retiever? Or is she a Weimaraner/pit-bull cross that just happens to love water?
Let's find out ...
Yes, yes she is! 100% lab, through and through.
Luna and Gracie are both purebred dogs, as promised. Mouse and Bear are both mixed breed, more or less as expected.
Overall, I am pretty impressed with accuracy of the Wisdom panel. Some of the mixed breed results were questionable, but they are not just blindly guessing at breeds. Each dog's results was a decent match with their physical appearance and behaviors. I think the algorithm they use probably needs a little more fine-tuning to avoid picking rare and unlikely breeds. However, I think the bulk of the results are probably legitimate.
The results of these tests don't really change anything about my dogs, but it is kind of cool to know the breeds that combined to make a dog like Mouse or Bear.
Also the tests confirmed that all four dogs are clear of 29 common genetic diseases, which is great to know. All in all, I am quite happy with the results of this little experiment in genetic mapping. It was quite fun and the results arrived pretty fast. If you have a rescue dog and you are curious enough to spend a hundred buck to get some answers, I'd say go for it. It won't be 100% accurate, but it should at least point you in the general direction of the truth.