September 23, 2012

This is my Harry as readers are aware of.  Cute little Lab Chow X.  Well just hold your horses everyone looks are apparently deceiving!  I sent away for Harry's DNA, foolish live on the edge kind of girl that I am. Got the package, read all the directions, took the swab. That was fun, it looks like a teenie tiny bottle brush that you have to rub for 15 seconds in his mouth between the cheek and gum line and don't touch the teeth, let it air dry for 5 minutes and send it off. You had to do this with two swabs.  Harry was not happy after the first pass, and less happy about the second go around.  So with swabs in hand, I register on line and pop the DNA samples into the mail box.  It takes about two to three weeks and you can track everything on a website.

So this past Friday I get an email saying Harry's results have been posted.  I quickly go the the website and this is what I found.
Great Grandparents - Saint Bernard, Collie - Alaskan Malamute on one side and Rottweiller, Cocker Spaniel on the other side of the family. Down it all trickles to Harry's parents.....St. Bernard, Collie, Alaskan Malamute Crossed with Rottweiller Cocker Spaniel.  Not a lab or chow in the mix, not even an Akita.  Ok I do kind of get the Malamute, his back legs have that look and of course there is his curly tail. but don't get the rest, especially one set of grandparents being Rottie/Cocker cross. So much for his spotted tongue and webbed feet.  Apparently Chow's aren't the only dogs with a black tongue, and lots breeds have spotted tongues.

A friend of mine is convinced that these are a bunch of guys, drunk or high, with darts and lots of pictures of animals...and you do the math.  If I was a betting person, I might consider using another company, there are a ton of them out there, who knew.  this company was supposed to be the best with the greatest number of different breeds.  Maybe too many breeds.  I still might do another test and see what comes up.

 But for now my sweet baby boy is a lab/chow X with definitely a little coyote thrown into the mix.