Consuela, I'm sorry for this turn. I hope the next while is as peaceable as possible.

Lee, hah!

So at least the appraiser can't make it until Monday, after which I will have cleaned? And maybe make it look less like a woman in the throes of paperwork hell lives here? I mean, they don't care about that, but stranger in my house TO JUDGE. Crossing fingers I get a good #.

Oh god, it is a cleaning weekend. And heatwave. I guess I will be putting in the ac units. Because otherwise, there is NO WAY. I will have made it until June, though!

It was like $50 when I did it. Darby came up rottweiler and miniature schnauzer, with some indiscernable extras mixed in. Which actually I can see.

Consuela, much ~ma to you and your family. I'll second what others have said about being sure to take care of yourself as well right now.

Amazon, and about $65. The vet's office told me $200 though, so it seemed like a bargain.

It's amazing to me that they can do that.

I'd be curious to know how accurate those tests are.

Yeah, I'm not convinced this one really was. I'm not going to spend $200 to check though.

They do stress that these are for curiousity's sake, not to back up your lawsuit against the AKC (or whatever). But all you give them is (in my case) the dog's name and age, and a cheek swab.

So I'd says it's reasonably valid. The two breeds they ID'd as dominant for Darby are fairly on target. (Dominant in her case meaning more than 25%/less than 49% of each.)

I mean, there are many other combinations that could end up looking like her, but OTOH she's certainly no Chihuahua, Australian Shepard, Cocker spaniel, Pekingese mix.

I got my Doggy DNA Test at Petco for I don't remember how much, but a low enough number to make it seem like a reasonable impulse buy (which, to be fair, could still be kind of high given how impulsive I can sometimes be, but I think it was less than $100). None of the dogs whose results I know came up as the breeds we thought they were pre-test, but the results did make sense once we knew them.

Rottweiler and miniature schnauzer? That must have been some romance.

I don't know much about chihuahuas. They are filed under "fierce little dogs" in my brain, and Charlie is that! Hey, how are obedience classes going?

Lee, I'd never have guessed that.

Is it wrong that I want to do swab myself and see if they return a dog breed for me?