Dog DNA Tests to see your mutt's background

TL;DR - did a dog DNA test on my new mixed breed puppy, see below for pics and breed results

Anyone else try this lately? There were some threads on this several years back, but I just recently tried this with my new pup I adopted from Companion Animal Alliance. From the brief research I did, there seem to be two main companies that do this: Embark and Wisdom Panel. I went with Wisdom Panel. You get some swabs and a bag in the mail, swab the dog's cheeks, and send it back. Took about 3 weeks from the day I put it back in the mail.

The test claims to trace breed lineage to the dog's great grandparents. If your dog descends from a long line of mutts, there's the possibility that the test will give you some percentage of "breed groups" that can't pinpoint exact breeds but give you an idea of the breed types (for example, my dog's test came back with 25% "Terrier and Companion" breed groups). The other 75% included definitive breeds.

It would be pretty difficult to prove accuracy/consistency without buying multiple kits and repeating the test, using more than one company, etc., and mutts can have genes from wildly different breeds but show no physical attributes because the genes aren't expressed. But for whatever it's worth, my test results seemed plausible, and I wasn't required to provide a photo.





She's about 4-5 months old and 25 lbs.

EDIT: Some fairly accurate guesses. Here are the real results: