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BioPet DNA Breed Identification Kit
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| Part No: | B0015WNJ7I |
| Manufacturer: | BioPet Vet Lab |
| MFG Part: | 82999 |
| Customer Rating: | 3.0 / 5.0 |
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- Use DNA to discover the breeds present in your dog
- Painlessly collect your dog's DNA sample and send it to BioPet for quick analysis
- Over 60 qualified breeds are on file
- Fast results via USPS within 2 weeks
- Even a prepaid return envelope for the DNA sample is included
Easy - A brief swab of the inside of your dog's cheek collects the DNA sample. Fast - results mailed postage prepaid approximately one week after the lab receives your dog's DNA sample. Accurate - 61 breeds validated for this test, which represent 92.5% of the US dog population. Approximately 1 week after the lab receives your pet's DNA sample, the lab will mail back to you: 1. Ancestry Analysis Certificate 2. Behavior and Personality Summary 3. DNA ID card
| I wondered about my dog's "breeds" for a long time | 2010-08-29 | 3 / 5 |
| | After 9 years of trying to figure out what breeds were in my dog's makeup, I decided to have her DNA tested. Now I know where the floppy ears come from :o) |
| 3 out of 5 ain't bad | 2010-08-21 | 3 / 5 |
| | Results arrived quickly--that was good. Identified 3 breeds that I expected. One was maybe/maybe not. Another, how could that be possible? Totally missed a couple breeds, but maybe there wasn't enough of those breeds in my true mixed-up dog for results to be thorough. I recommend it, but I'd also like to try a couple other companies to compare results. |
| Little clearer now... | 2010-08-15 | 4 / 5 |
| | I just got my result from Biopet Vet Lab. I have (what I thought) was a purebred chihuahua. However, he's VERY tall. No one believed he was purebred. I was beginning to get irritated b/c that's what I paid for. I found the BioPet test and thought I'd do it for kicks. Just to see if there was anything else in my dog. Something that could at least explain his height. It took about 2 weeks to get my results. Not long at all. Since the report comes back as levels....I found out that my Bruiser was over 75% chihuahua. No surprise there. Glad there was no other breed listed in that Level 1 category with chihuahua. It skipped Level 2 and 3. BUT in Level 4, he has some Weimarener and Level 5, English Setter. Those 2 perplex me a little bit. The Weimarener would explain his height. English Setter throws me though. I'm guessing some of this DNA of these dogs could have come from "way back when". The test was enlightening. I wasn't expecting these other 2 breeds, maybe something else. But I'm satisifed with the work of the test and would recommend it to anyone if your curious about your dog. Another thing I liked about this test was that you don't have to provide a picture, nor do you put on the information card what kind of breed you think your dog is. Gives it more validity to me about the results. |
| no issues here | 2010-08-09 | 4 / 5 |
| I received the results exactly two weeks from the date I mailed the kit in to the company. I had been told by the rescue group that my dog was a german shepherd mix, but wanted to get her tested to see what "mix" she was because she does not act like any I've ever known. I was surprised to see her test come back as afghan hound, siberian husky, and german shorthair pointer. Aside from her having short hair, she is an afghan hound thru and thru from her facial structure and body to her character traits. I would never have made that connection on my own but if I google black afghan images I see her in all of them.
One nagging question though, I read on another review that this only tests the Y chromosome, so this only tells us the father? I'm still wondering if she has any GSD in her at all and why they were so certain the mother was a shepherd... |
| Fun way to look into your mixed-breed dog's background | 2010-07-17 | 4 / 5 |
| I am having our "pound puppy" tested just for fun and to see if ANY of the breeds people say they see in him are at all possible. Til then, he will forever be our "shar-dobie-grey-rott-houndrador retriever."
If you would like to have some idea of what dogs might be somewhere in the ancestry of your pet, and the cost is not going to affect your ability to pay the rent, and you understand that it can only give results within 60 or so possible identified breeds, go on ahead and do it. Maybe it can help you understand your pet a little better. But also be aware that understanding the results requires a little bit of understanding of statistical probabilities along with some idea of what the terms used in the report mean. For example, what exactly do "level 1" results mean in comparison with, say "level 5" or 'level 7". You'll get more out of this if you read the accompanying literature.
Also understand that if none of the DNA from your sample matches *exactly* one of the listed breeds, the results can only be understood as a probability of some distant ancestor and, because of this, may be so diluted as to be relatively meaningless. This would be where the definition of the various 'Levels' would be significant. You could compare this to saying "I'm part Italian" when your mother's father's father's great-grandmother married an Italian man. But at the same time, the cooking and eating of traditional Italian foods might have been handed down through these many different generations along with some vague physical characteristics ("I kinda look Italian.")
I imagine people would be very unhappy if they had this test done and got a result back of "no recognizable breed" and while that might be 100% accurate, it would not be particularly satisfying or interesting and would leave you with little to talk about -- which, let's face it, is why people have this test done in the first place.
If you are a professional dog breeder, you already know how to trace the lineage of your pure-bred dogs so why would you want to use this test? And if you aren't, then the only reason to do it would really be for fun. Maybe you can learn something about some of your mixed-breed dog's traits and it's temperament, but then again, maybe not. Not even purebred's all behave or look the same way.
A previous reviewer asked how to know if your dog is "Pure-Bred." There are other, much cheaper, tests that can be done to verify if your dog is a pure-bred "Standard Poodle"for example. The results you would receive in that case would be 'yes' or 'no' and would require you to specify what you believe the breed is. Even the term "pure bred" is a bit of a misnomer if you consider that the various breeds have all been contrived at some point in history by people putting dogs together(for mating) that had a particular look and temperament and that every dog, regardless of size or character, has as a common ancestor, the wolf. |
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