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Do not use the Ancestry kit. Not only they have closed that division but sold it to BioPet Lab. My Pit mix has changed the numbers and breeds within 6 months to something that sounds like a fairytale.
My best experience is with Wisdom Panel. They have been so far pretty darn accurate. I have not used Embark yet so I cannot discuss their accuracy.
Any comments on the reliability on canine DNA age tests?
I have been a subscriber to WDJ for over 15 years. I’m probably not as “nature” oriented as many of the readers, but I truly believe there are at least partial alternatives to “better living through chemistry”. If for no other reason than cost…Vets are getting expensive, as are Rx canine drugs. This am we had senior blood panels done on both our dogs and the bill was almost $800!
NK must have recently sold WDJ, clearly not only the format has changed. Sometimes I get to thinking that WDJ has become kind of a platform for selling various products and publications. At 1st blush I am unhappy with this, but looking at what they are selling, it/they seem to be valuable to at least some of the readers….so maybe it’s OK, but please don’t convert to an advertising platform. I’m getting use to the online format, and frankly, I now like it better than the printed version. It’s easier to store articles that are specific to my dogs and my/their needs.
All things considered, WDJ is $20/year, I would only need to benefit from 1 article a year to earn my subscription price back. That seems a decent deal to me. After all, I did just spend 40 years of WDJ subscription fees on blood tests! Please make the articles as specific as possible, avoid the generalities one often sees in newsletters. Thanks for all the good info!
I’ve used Wisdom DNA for 4 dogs so far and all results concerning breed types were pretty accurate except one- our current new pup who is definitely Dutch Shepherd and no way German Shepherd. She’s a mix of husky/Dutch Shepherd and a bunch of other stuff in there. I’ve had 12 dogs since 1973, 2 at a time so they’d have a ‘friend’. When one passed on, we got another- or should I say, another pup found me. Anyway, #12 is the smartest, quickest thinking, greatest memory, friendliest, most hyper pup we’ve ever had with TONS of energy, which fits the husky/Dutch Shepherd. She also has some border collie (another brilliant dog breed) and some cattle dog (another energetic/smart dog). My daughter has 2 blood hounds. What a difference from all 12 dogs we’ve had. I didn’t contact Wisdom and they insisted they were correct and their methods correct. Doesn’t matter to me.