What Breed is My Dog? is now offering a speedy service for customers who are super keen to get their results!
For just an extra £25 you can receive your results within 10 working days as opposed to the standard 21-28 days.
If you would like to take advantage of this service, please purchase your test via the online shop and then contact the team at info@whatbreedismydog.co.uk or on 02920 647019 to arrange the speedy delivery service.
As of 1st February 2011 the What Breed is My Dog? DNA test can now detect Border Terrier and Flat Coated Retriever. This means that the test will now recognise 66 of the most common dog breeds in the UK.
Along with this you can expect to see the addition of Whippet and English Cocker Spaniel soon.
At Net Pet Shop we are always on the lookout for innovative pet supplies. We believe that the new Dog DNA Test Kit that’s recently hit the market is a wonderful, innovative product, and is an important tool for any owner of a cross-breed dog. For a very reasonable, all in one price, curious owners can find out the genetic information that makes up their pet, which is accurate up to 97%, and the test is able to identify from 65 of the most common dog breeds across the UK.
Aside from being in the know about your dogs ancestry, it’s a fantastic idea to find out your dog DNA for a variety of other reasons, such as health and behaviour. Lots of purebreds in the UK are bred for specific behaviours or temperaments, so when these are crossed, your dog may exhibit behaviours from a mixture of the breeds. If you are able to distinguish which behaviours are typical of certain breeds, this makes training your dog much more easy. It allows you to alter the training techniques to help you best engage with your dog, and use these specific traits to tailor the training and rewards to what motivates your canine.
Knowing the mixture of breeds in your dog can also be invaluable when it comes to your dogs health. Due to such strict breeding of purebreds, this has unfortunately lead to certain breeds being susceptible to hereditary diseases for example, hip dysplasia or respiratory problems. If you are able to know in advance what problems your pet is most likely to be affected by, then you can work to help prevent the onset of such disorders in the future. For example, if your dog is a mix of a breed which is prone to weight related illnesses, then you can ensure that they are kept at a sensible and healthy weight with exercise and good diet.
The What Breed Is My Dog DNA Test Kit is already proving to be a good seller, and as we come up to the Christmas rush, it’s looking set to be one of the top pet related gifts of the year, as it’s the perfect present for any dog lover. For a one off price that includes the kit, all the necessary equipment to allow you to obtain a swab, a stamped address envelope, and a results certificate and breed summary, this kit is a very cost effective way to help you to decipher your dogs genetic make up.
I hope you might be interested to hear about Rocket, he’s a clever boy, this is a picture of him after he won the first obedience competition he was ever entered in. As well as this he has written a poem with a bit of help from his Mum! He tells his own story but there are a couple of things needed to set the scene: he was adopted through Irish Setter Rescue and he features on the Rescue Calendar in July with our Irish Setter Sadie.
What am I?
Now this is the tale of a rescue,
An unusual one to be sure.
My coat’s not the usual red one
But black with a white bib and paw.
If you think this is just a tall story,
I’m the calendar’s Mr July.
I’m Rocket with my best friend Sadie
And photos I’m told never lie.
The Aunties were told that the mixture
Could be Irish and English Setter
But I scurry along like a Spaniel;
Setter cross Springer what’s better.
The words that I hear the most often:
“What a beautiful dog, what is he?
With long legs and snowy white markings,
Part Setter, Springer or Collie?”
So my Mummy sent off a mouth swab,
And they gave me a DNA test.
I’m Setter! More Irish than English.
Who cares when I know I’m the best!
His results are actually Level 2 – Irish Setter and Level 3 – English Setter and as he has settled down and gained in confidence his behaviour has become more ‘Setter like’ or is that because we now know for sure what he is?
Joy Smith
We got Geordie nearly 8 years ago from the RSPCA in Sydney and have always wondered just what breeds he was made up of. The breed specification when we got him said Terrier Cross, even the vet we’ve taken him to wouldn’t guess any further also saying some kind of Terrier Cross.
We always assumed that because of his white ruff and his herding instincts, he had Border Collie in him then, because his hair doesn’t shed and he’s non-allergenic we also assumed he must have some Poodle in him. We also thought there must be some Terrier in him because of his behaviour towards hunting small animals including ducks, fish and horses! Nearly everyone who had an opinion was convinced he was a Labradoodle but we were never so convinced, he didn’t seem to have the personality of a Lab or Poodle.
So to find out he’s:
Level 3: Chow Chow
Level 3: Dalmatian
Level 4: Parson Russell Terrier
Level 4: Shetland sheepdog
Level 4: Pekingese
Level 5: German Shepherd
Level 5: Miniature Pinscher
……………….is just amazing. I realise that because he has Australian genes the breeds may not be exact, but Chow Chow/Dalmatian is something nobody could have picked but, when reading the traits there certainly are similarities. “Aloof, independent, not a strong desire to please/ high energy, aggressive towards other dogs, especially males, strong willed”. But he is also loving (when he wants it), fearless and intelligent (but hard to train)and obviously we also think he’s the most beautiful dog that ever existed.
I can’t say he specifically looks like any of the breeds but then again he is the epitome of a scruffy mutt and we always guessed he’d be a Heinz 57 varieties dog. We’re seriously still in shock to his mix but I have to say this was money well spent and the discussions will continue with friends and family for many months to come.
Thanks again,
Steve
DNA Testing for Dogs! What a brilliant idea.
About 6 months ago I took in a lovely dog from Heathlands Animal Sanctuary in Royston. I wasn’t looking to have any more dogs as I was quite happy with my two King Charles Spaniels, but when I went onto the Heathlands website and saw the plight of some of these rescued dogs brought over from an awful existence in Ireland I had to have a look – and there she was! Within two days Ciara was home with us and getting to know Molly and Meka and thankfully all are great friends.
She was quite thin and traumatised. After only 2 days she managed to scale the 5ft garden wall, and was seen by my Grandson weaving in and out of traffic on a busy main road. We now have trellis on top of the wall. She then started to dig her way under the wall, so have now had the garden paved! She was quite a scavenger and opened Christmas presents which were high up on a sideboard – eating a whole box of Tesco Finest Dark Belgium chocolates – quick visit to the vets. Several weeks later she climbed into a cupboard in the conservatory and managed to open a tin of rat poison – another visit to the vets! She was quite destructive when I left her in the house and never knew what to expect on my return. She chases anything that moves, but that is improving slowly having been given some good advice from the dog training class that we now attend.
When my sister told me she was thinking of having her recently rescued dog tested, I couldn’t wait to have mine done and beat her to it! Although both our dogs were rescued 6 months apart and both from different rescue centres, they had both come over from Ireland. They looked so alike (although mine was only 16 months old and my sisters 4 years old) we had convinced ourselves that they were related as my sister’s dog had had puppies at some stage in her life!
But when the results arrived how wrong we were – there was no DNA resemblance at all! My dog Ciara (who we thought was a Beagle cross,) is Border Collie x American Staffordshire Terrier x Dachshund and Millie is Labrador Retriever x Beagle x English Springer Spaniel x Lhapa Apso x Yorkie!
Ciara is one of the nicest dogs I have ever had (and I have had quite a few)!
Sue Charlton
Tyson acquired us back in March 2006 after being taken out of the dog pound here in Cork by a family member whom was ultimately unable to look after him due to circumstance. From day one of him owning us I have been stopped in the street by people asking me what breed he is, I’ve even had people stop their cars as they drive past to ask, we always had a sneaking suspicion that he was a Boxer cross Lab (with maybe a touch of Alsatian) so I replied with pride “he’s a Boxadorisation”, but it had also been mentioned he had the look of a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
After seeing the advert online for “What Breed is my Dog” and due to the very reasonable price I thought what the heck, contacted the staff to see if they would be OK to perform their service with me as I am based in Cork in Ireland, they said they would at no extra charge. My contact with the company has been extremely pleasant ever since, they send regular update emails to let me know how the process was going, and I was delighted to get back the results of Tyson being a level 1 Boxer with level 3 Labrador Retriever so a Boxador he is.
Bully AKA Bulldozer as at 2 months old he dug under the fence within the space of an hour to the neighbours ;o) Bully appeared to us on the 17th September 2009 – we had rescued his mother, Roxy, on the 18th August 2009 from the dog pound here in Cork. We had her checked by the vets that weekend and apart from her being 10lbs underweight we thought all was well – until Thursday 17th Sept when she delivered 6 pups, one of whom was Bully, luckily all pups and mom survived and are creating havoc to this day, we kept “Bully” and “Penny” ourselves (along with Roxy) and found suitable homes for the other four.
Now of course since they arrived the speculation as to the father raged, initially we where thinking Newfoundland due to the size and colourings (Black and White) then while Bully continued to grow in every way, the rest of the gang didn’t seem to be getting as wide, so the thought turned to “Flat Coated Retriever”. As this breed is apparently prone to cancer and can only live to the age of 10 I had concerns for my two new babies. On seeing the advert online for What Breed is my Dog I thought now’s my chance to find out, not only out of interest as to the father, and answer the question to people who meet us in the street, but also from a health point of view, if I knew what breed they were made up of, it meant I could keep a watchful eye for those issues which increase due to genetic composition.
As it runs out Bully is level 2 German Shepherd, level 3 English Springer Spaniel and level 5 Pekingese – the German Shepherd we knew because of Roxy, the English Springer Spaniel fills the gap of the colourings and the Pekingese explains why he thinks he is a lap dog – at 4.5 stone at 7.25 months, he is some lap dog!
Paul Buchanan
We got Ben at 8 weeks old from a rescue centre, he is the most gorgeous grey (blue) colour. His siblings were black with white markings and there was one white girl. Because of Ben’s colour the rescue centre staff said Weimeraner cross Labrador but because of his short nose and excessive skin possibly Boxer too.
Wow we thought! He had webbed feet so we thought Labrador was right, but we were constantly asked “what is he”. His unique colour was what made people stop us. The more we looked at Weimeraners and read about them it just did not seem right. So we found What Breed is My Dog? sent off his DNA sample and waited.
The results were great and made a lot of sense regarding his character. Labrador, Bulldog, Mastiff and less than 10% Bull Terrier. Great service and value and we would definitely recommend you.
Feast is nearly 3 and we adopted him from a Dog’s Trust Home when he was just a year old. He was born at the Dog’s Trust Home so we knew a bit about his background. We were told his mother was a Border Collie and his father was perhaps a Jack Russell. Feast is Collie sized with what I thought was a Jack Russell shaped head and colouring.
Feast’s breed results were;
Level 2: Border Collie
Level 4: Keeshond
Level 5: Yorkshire Terrier
Level 5: American Eskimo Dog
Feast has large erect ears and a curly erect tail and after reading his results these could have come from either the Eskimo Dog or the Keeshond. It was very interesting to find this out as we would never have worked it out ourselves.
The analysis was meant to be a Christmas present for my partner from Feast and I but, when the results arrived we could not wait to open them!
I would have no hesitation in recommending your product, it is reasonably priced and the service is first class.
Audrey McPherson
Annette Connolly-Read owner of Dazzledore Labradoodles shares with us why she wanted to use the What Breed is My Dog? test on one of her dogs Dora;
I knew Dora was a straight Labrador/Poodle cross however I was curious to see if there was anything else further back in her ancestry. I came across What Breed is My Dog? after an internet search and the service was first class.
The results came back within the specified time and to my delight found not only the Poodle and Labrador in her makeup, but traces from way back in her ancestry of Newfoundland and Great Pyrenees Mountain Dog, both I believe relatives of the Labrador.
It was brilliant to know that Dora was predominantly a split between Labrador and Poodle so, from a breeding point of view I was over the moon and to receive a certificate was brilliant.
I would recommend this test to anyone wanting to know what their dog’s ancestry is.
