Tired of guessing at breeds?

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    Tired of guessing at breeds?

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    Lol...grain of salt with this one...how would they prove they were right, if you yourself did not know your dogs genetic makeup?? Did they deliberately breed mixes to test this out?
     
    Strange...
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    Last spring at a show, there was a booth where they were taking blood samples from some breeds for this type of research.  It was all on a volunteer basis.
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    My vet had said something about this awhile ago. He was wondering what the price would be...
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    I looked on the MetaMorphix website and they didn't have much info either. I was wonder which 38 breeds they could ID. We think Lucy is a Catahoula mix - but I have no if that would be one of the breeds they can ID. They are relatively rare. I do know someone on a Catahoula board who submitted a DNA sample for a volunteer DNA database program who said that she was told Catahoulas had DNA that hadn't been found in any other breed the company had mapped.