Dogs...

My neighbours beautiful doggies, as they took me for a walk.
We got Frank's Bitsa results in the mail today- that's the DNA test he had to determine what breeds are in him :)
More info here if anyone is interested- http://www.gtglabs.com/bitsa/
So- the results.
Neither of his parents were purebreds, so he has no primary breed.
His secondary breeds, however, are Maltese and Shih Tzu- in equal amounts.
He has a LOT of more distant breeds; specifically;
Silky Terrier 7%
Alaskan Malamute 2%
Border Collie 2%
Chihuahua 2%
Boxer 2%
Tibertan Spaniel 1%
American Staffodshire Terrier 1%
Pug 1%
Labrador 1%
Siberian Husky 1%
Irish Setter 1%
Cairn Terrier 1%
Bichon Frise 1%
Shiba Inu 1%
Boston Terrier 1%
And all the rest are less than 1%, right down to Dobermann at 0.2%
That's pretty much what we expected, except for the Malamute thing!!!
To be clear, the reason I wanted to know isn't because I had something I wanted him to be (or not be.) It's because he's adopted...which is a wonderful thing. One of the best things ever. But it does mean I missed the first couple of years of his life. I'll never know what his puppyhood was like or what he's been through, and I'm ok with that- but at least now I have some insight into the breed related characteristics he has. I have some idea of who his parents might have been. I like that.