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Really insightful information
By Ellen J Keller on Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2018
We adopted our dog Jake off of Petfinder in 2017. He was described as a "Shepherd Mix" on his forms. While he did look very much like a German Shepherd, he is very skinny/lanky and has floppy ears. Additionally, while a lot of his personality traits are very Shepherd-like, his ability/thirst to hunt/track and sensitivity to the noises and action of the city were quite different from how Shepherds usually are. My parents got us this DNA testing kit for my birthday and the results were INCREDIBLY eye opening. They did take about 4 weeks to come in, so be prepared to wait longer than 14 days they say. The DNA was very easy to harvest (even though Jake did not like the q-tip being rubbed in his mouth and ran away and hid when we had to harvest the second sample haha). Come to find out, he is almost 80% German Shepherd and 20% Vizsla - a breed we had never heard of! The Vizsla is a hound type dog similar to a coonhound. When we googled this breed, it became very obvious that this was the missing piece of the puzzle. The more research we've done on this breed, the less of a mystery Jake is to us. I feel so much more connected to him and his background. I love having more information about his mother and father. All in all I am INCREDIBLY satisfied with this product and so thankful that we have this information.
Top critical review
5 people found this helpful
This is just on the procedure not the results
By Great Dane Dame on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019
It is too early to receive results, but I do want to point a few things out. First I choose this company because doing a search on these tests they got the highest rating. Secondly the test itself is very easy to do although I played with rubbing my dog's gums and inside cheeks for a day or so just to get her used to the feel of what I was going to do; I was sure she would try and eat it when I finally put the swab in her mouth. Now, as for the directions. Little things bother me. They say red cap, they were green. They show be putting the mailing label right on the swab box and not the brown cardboard box they mailed it in. The swab box ripped when I opened it and I had to tape it together (same with the outside box but I could put packing tape on that. So I mailed it back in the brown box. I paid for the mailing in my test kit price anyway. The labels with your ID number on them would not stick on the tube so I scotch taped them on in a manner that would not cover the barcode. I wonder if this is why many people got results that really had nothing to do with their dog. I do wish I had not uploaded the picture before I send in the test. I wonder how much that influences the results. I have completed human DNA tests that are boxed and presented in a similar manner but never had any difficulty with their products. I am hoping for very good and seemingly accurate results but they could improve their test products with small minor adjustments.
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