Those DNA tests for people and pets are crap. We got a new puppy about 18 months ago. Since we knew the dog was of mixed heritage, my wife purchased a DNA test for the puppy, young dog actually.
If I could post a picture you would see a 28lb, long-legged black and brown mini-Doberman.
The DNA people said I had a Chihuahua - Akita blend. Like I said ... pure crap.
“If I could post a picture you would see a 28lb, long-legged black and brown mini-Doberman. The DNA people said I had a Chihuahua - Akita blend. Like I said ... pure crap.”
That reminds me of those water filter people who leave a sample bottle hanging from your mailbox offering a free water test.
I filled mine with distilled water and got a phone call from a lady reading a script that said “ sediment and fecal cololform bacteria” were present.
One thing to remember about the DNA tests is that they are analyzed using statistical analysis. They look for "markers" that are prevalent in certain populations, but can exist in other populations. For example, 95% of the time a specific (genetically determined) green eye color occurs, it is within ethnic group A. But the other 5% of the time, it occurs in ethnic groups B, C, D, and E. If you look at, for example, 10 genes and see a pattern in every gene that fits group A, the most likely possibility is that you are a member of group A. And so that result is reported.
I would say that the most likely reason for your dog's test coming out the way it did is that the company has too few samples on which to base its statistics. Statistics become more reliable with larger sample sizes.
In my case, the DNA analysis showed an ethnic mix consisting of a large part of British, but also significant fractions of Irish and Scandinavian and small parts of Iberian (France, Spain, and Portugal), eastern European, the "-stan" region of the middle east, and south Africa. And the DNA analysis also shows people I am related to. I was able to verify some of these relations by comparing family trees for common ancestors. In a few cases, I found people who know my mother--including a man who showed up at our house once when I was a kid, claiming to be my mothers cousin. Having seen a common relative in his family tree, I wrote to him to ask him more about these relatives--he wrote back, describing his visit when I was a kid.
Given that I can corroborate some of the DNA results, I have decent confidence in the ethnicity estimates. Whenever I have some more time on my hands, I plan to use the DNA results to try to figure out who my great-grandfather was. My great-grandma had, as I like to say, the morals of an alley-cat...