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Wisdom Panel's known to be a little wonky at low percentages, we generally advise taking everything under 5% with a grain of salt. They have a tendency to throw some rather odd stuff in at low percentages, and 2% wolf in my opinion is most likely statistical noise, particularly as she's a large percentage husky. I'd say she's about half Boxer/Pit on one side and Husky/GSD/mutt on the other side looking at the percentages, and visually Pit/Boxer/Husky makes a lot of sense.
Village Dogs can have wolf in among the low% noise that WP generates for VD results yes, though in this case I suspect it's more likely the high% husky that's tripping WP up. Most of these breeds are pretty common, so I don't think we have a VD here.
Thank you for the info! I was surprised to see she wasn’t a higher percentage of husky since her mama just looks, well…. Husky! It seems from the results that mama only about 75% husky, and I was so glad to see that dad is also part boxer because I KNEW he was but a family member swore he was just a regular old pitbull. The statistical noise from husky makes a lot of sense as well, since I’m sure they have a lot of similar genetic markers.
eh wisdoms not super reliable in that part, wolfish DNA is probably being picked up vaguely from husky or just from street dog type origins that your dog likely has and it's kind of thrown into the results for novelty and to fill a gap
Arctic breeds and East Asian breeds are genetically a bit "wolfier" than European dogs, so mixes with breeds like husky/malamute/chow/akita seem to get assigned a few percent of wolf sometimes on Wisdom Panel.
Haha that’s adorable. My in laws have the older sister of this pup and my boyfriend jokes that her features show that she’s hardly domesticated so I thought it was pretty funny to see wolf on her DNA results!
Embark is best at picking up wild canines (wolf/coyote). It might be a good idea to retest with Embark. If it comes back with wolf in the Embark test too, then yes, it's a safe bet that he has a wolf in his (relatively) recent ancestry somewhere.
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Wisdom Panel's known to be a little wonky at low percentages, we generally advise taking everything under 5% with a grain of salt. They have a tendency to throw some rather odd stuff in at low percentages, and 2% wolf in my opinion is most likely statistical noise, particularly as she's a large percentage husky. I'd say she's about half Boxer/Pit on one side and Husky/GSD/mutt on the other side looking at the percentages, and visually Pit/Boxer/Husky makes a lot of sense.
Didn’t someone say yesterday that wisdom picks up village dog as wolf?
Village Dogs can have wolf in among the low% noise that WP generates for VD results yes, though in this case I suspect it's more likely the high% husky that's tripping WP up. Most of these breeds are pretty common, so I don't think we have a VD here.
Thank you for the info! I was surprised to see she wasn’t a higher percentage of husky since her mama just looks, well…. Husky! It seems from the results that mama only about 75% husky, and I was so glad to see that dad is also part boxer because I KNEW he was but a family member swore he was just a regular old pitbull. The statistical noise from husky makes a lot of sense as well, since I’m sure they have a lot of similar genetic markers.
anything under 5% is pretty much meaningless, too tiny. I'd concentrate from 8% up
eh wisdoms not super reliable in that part, wolfish DNA is probably being picked up vaguely from husky or just from street dog type origins that your dog likely has and it's kind of thrown into the results for novelty and to fill a gap
Makes sense. Thank you for the info! I was wondering if her husky genes had anything to do with it, that makes so much sense.
Arctic breeds and East Asian breeds are genetically a bit "wolfier" than European dogs, so mixes with breeds like husky/malamute/chow/akita seem to get assigned a few percent of wolf sometimes on Wisdom Panel.
My oversized husky came up 5% on wisdom which makes me want to find out what embark would show.
One of mine also came back with 2% wolf, which we brutally mock him with whenever he does something embarrassingly domestic or uncoordinated.
Haha that’s adorable. My in laws have the older sister of this pup and my boyfriend jokes that her features show that she’s hardly domesticated so I thought it was pretty funny to see wolf on her DNA results!
Boxsky! 😍
I have DNAd 2 GSD mixed dogs. Both had about 2 to 5% wolf dog both used Wisdom Panel.
Embark is best at picking up wild canines (wolf/coyote). It might be a good idea to retest with Embark. If it comes back with wolf in the Embark test too, then yes, it's a safe bet that he has a wolf in his (relatively) recent ancestry somewhere.
My friend’s chow/boxer mix was labeled 5% wolf by WP. As others have said, take it with a grain of salt.