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Old 10-18-2011, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by jrheydt View Post
My wife just related a story to me. A member of her memoirs group found a dog along the road a 10 years ago. It was a non-descript dog but she wanted to find out exactly what breeds were represented in the dogs dna. She had a dna test done and they reported back to her that her dogs contained 1/4 of 4 different breeds. I thought that was interesting. John
I heard they offer DNA Testing at Petco, I think it cost around $125. I was going to have it done on a rescue dog, just out of curiosity. Then a friend told they'd had their dashound/mutt tested, and the testing showed it was mostly rotweiller. I'm not sure how accurate the tests are.
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