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Topic Dog Boards / General / DNA testing
- By littleblossom Date 21.02.14 14:19 UTC
We are taking our rescue dog on holiday with us this summer. We will be travelling by motor home through three or four countries before we set down at our destination and then touring that country.
We will be going through France, Germany, maybe Austria and Switzerland and ending up in Italy. Our dog may be on some of those country's BSL lists. Italy will be ok as it repealed BSL in 2003, and we maybe able to more or less bypass France by going through Belgium and Luxembourg which also have no BSL. But some states of Germany, Austria and Switzerland could prove a problem. She is a Great Dane cross, and it is the 'cross' which is the problem. I don't want to mention that breed on a public forum (it is not a banned breed here though).
So, as I don't want her seized (although more than willing to keep her leashed/muzzled or whatever it takes in those countries) I would like, before applying for a Pet Passport, to get a DNA test done. Anyone have experience of these tests? Any recommendations? I have been recommended one but on looking at their website, her possible breed is not even mentioned, so she would come back as Great Dane cross something, and it's the 'something' I'm worrying about!
- By Goldmali Date 21.02.14 15:31 UTC
I don't think they are much cop unfortunately. There was a recent TV programme where they had tested crossbreeds born in the UK. Yet the results (from a company promoted by the KC) came up with breeds that do not EXIST in the UK. So they HAD to be wrong.
- By JoStockbridge [gb] Date 21.02.14 19:16 UTC
I'd agree there not worth the paper there printed on. Looking at the reviews for the wisdom panel one's there are quite a few bad ones on there where the person knew the mother's breed yet that breed didn't come back in the results. There Reply to Rhodes were that just because a dog looks like a breed it might not be that breed (even said that to one where the mother was a registered pedigree). Also looking on there own website at the dogs allready tested there are a few merle dogs on there and the breeds they say they are a mix of don't have have that gene so those must be wrong. 

A dog mag did some tests once, one a known cross it came back wrong and a pure bred kc reg dog that came back wrong. There excuse was that it's not ment for pure breeds (but I see some are now offering a test for pure breeds) and that if a breed is not on there list they pick the closest one they have to it. Although how they do that when they couldn't even id a purebred.
Topic Dog Boards / General / DNA testing

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