[jacquej]

And another thing about dog dna... in purebred dogs, especially in USA, many breeders will breed to "winners" and from the offspirng of "winners". The mitochondrial DNA means a whole lot less because of this in my opinion.

The euphemism for this is "line-breeding", but what it means is doggie-incest, with father dogs being bred to daughter dogs, and momma being bred to uncle, grandson,etc...

Honestly, go look at some of the pedigrees of dogs posted on the net.

[MizSterious]

Yes, I've known about that for some years--it seems a neighbor of ours bought a nice pure bred dog, and he had hip dysplacia, something the vet said came from that sort of inbreeding.