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Understanding Breed Surprises

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  • Breed Surprises! These Breeds don't match my dog.
  • How can my shelter dog be a single breed?
  • My single-breed dog doesn't look like just one breed. How is that possible?
  • My dog looks like a Carolina Dog, but your results don't include that ancestry.
  • My Great Pyrenees doesn’t look like a Great Pyrenees
  • My dog looks like a Rhodesian Ridgeback, but your results have no Ridgeback ancestry.
  • My dog looks like a Belgian Malinois, but your results say they're a German Shepherd.
  • How can my dog be an American Pit Bull Terrier?
  • Is there really Chow Chow in my dog?
  • My dog looks just like a Border Collie, but you didn’t find that breed.
  • How is there no Labrador Retriever in my Lab mix?
  • I expected to see sighthound in my dog, but there is none. Why is that?

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