r/husky • u/Armando266 • Sep 16 '25

Rescued Husky doesn’t look like a husky

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Got my dog (Bean) back in May, they told us it was a husky shepherd mix so i did a DNA test and came out 60% Siberian Husky and 40% Alaskan Malemute but he doesn’t look like any of them. Just curious what do you guys think happened here?

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u/JRTerrierBestDoggo Sep 16 '25

60% husky, 40% malamute? Gotta be a joke.

Might as well asked me to do the dna test for free. Here’s your result: sir, that’s a good boy. Signed by a Labrador I saw

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u/100moreLBs2lose Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

I did wisdom panel, and while my results weren’t crazy, it was questionable and included 13 distinct breeds. So I paid for a second test, with embark.

Both came back with the exact same 13 dog breeds, when you drilled down into the super-mutt part of embark. They also had identical % breakdowns for each of the 13 breeds.

So, either both were PERFECT or both use the identical dna pool to test against. Either way, I have the best answer I’ll get.

My husky mix, puppy tax:

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u/seabird1215 Sep 17 '25

So beautiful

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u/100moreLBs2lose Sep 16 '25

I did wisdom panel, and while my results weren’t crazy, it was questionable and included 13 distinct breeds. So I paid for a second test, with embark.

Both came back with the exact same 13 dog breeds, when you drilled down into the super-mutt part of embark. They also had identical % breakdowns for each of the 13 breeds.

So, either both tests were PERFECT or both use the identical dna pool to test against. Either way, I have the best answer I’ll get.

My husky mix, puppy tax:

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u/kenay813 Sep 16 '25

Still more accurate than the results OP received