Hah, we probably should've just saved your money and done more Internet research; I happened across this in-depth analysis of the MARS test on a Yorkie forum:
One dog that I owned I had tested twice. The dog was some sort of a dalmation/australian shepherd mix. The first test came back as 75% dalmation, and 25% unknown. Six months later the dog tested as 35% labrador, 15% dalmation, and 50% Husky. Tests are completely bogus.
Perhaps they just insert a northern breed at random? And pull their other results out of a hat? :D Although that forum is also this huge clusterfuck of dog-breed politics so I have no idea what's genuine analysis and what's clusterfuckitude.
I actually could see the basset hound part, though. Provided there's also like... great dane or something in there to make him HUGE-SIZED.
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Date: 2010-04-05 09:21 pm (UTC)One dog that I owned I had tested twice. The dog was some sort of a dalmation/australian shepherd mix. The first test came back as 75% dalmation, and 25% unknown. Six months later the dog tested as 35% labrador, 15% dalmation, and 50% Husky. Tests are completely bogus.
Perhaps they just insert a northern breed at random? And pull their other results out of a hat? :D Although that forum is also this huge clusterfuck of dog-breed politics so I have no idea what's genuine analysis and what's clusterfuckitude.
I actually could see the basset hound part, though. Provided there's also like... great dane or something in there to make him HUGE-SIZED.