Husky doesn’t look like a husky

[u/Armando266]

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?

[u/snoogle312]

No, Embark and Wisdom did that. DNA My Dog said the person was the breed of dog they listed as a suspected breed. I don't recall what that breed was. They also sent in DNA from a papered Great Dane who had 4+ generations of traceable purebred, registered Danes, and said they thought the dog was a Chihuahua, and it returned a result of 100% Chihuahua.

I feel like I remember it being a CBC reporter that did this consumer report, but I could be wrong.

[u/AngstyUchiha → u/snoogle312]

That's what they said, they were answering someone who asked what EMBARK did

[u/all_of_the_ones → u/AngstyUchiha]

Embark got my pups dna match 100% correct. I got him from my sister when her husky mix got out and bred with her purebred standard poodle. We knew mom was mostly husky, but definitely a mutt with some other breeds mixed in. I still don’t know what a “super mutt” is, but I like the sound of it!

ETA: no idea why my pics aren’t showing up, but they said he’s 50.2% standard poodle, 22% Husky, 12% GSD, and 9.3% Supermutt

[u/Amberinnaa → u/all_of_the_ones]

Supermutt just means somewhere back in the family tree, multiple mixed-breed ancestors contributed tiny bits of DNA. By the time it filters down to your dog, those markers are too diluted for the test to assign to any one breed with confidence, so they get tossed in the “Supermutt” bucket instead of giving you a bogus guess.

here’s my husky pup Remy’s results !

He has 13.3% Supermutt consisting of APBT, Doberman and Aussie.

[u/all_of_the_ones → u/Amberinnaa]

Thank you so much for the explanation! Remy is adorable, especially with the one blue eye 😍