DNA My Dog Essential Breed ID Test

Second updated/edited review in 2025: I submitted a review in 2023. I just wanted to do an update and give another five star review for yet another DNA My Dog test I used. We brought home a new puppy in 2025 and I ordered a DNA test first from embark because the DNA My Dog test noted that there might be a Canadian postal strike, so instead I ordered a test from Embark. I was very displeased with the embark results. So then I ordered a test from DNA My Dog as the postal strike never happened. I was again just so pleased with the results. I like the CNV testing that DNA My Dog uses where they keep micro-ing down to get the specific dog breeds.

Let me say DNA My Dog is the cheapest DNA testing company for Pets. This is the 2nd time we have used this company. Verifying breeds is fairly important in determining food and medical needs of your pets. My husband has a significant history with military and public safety working dogs and thus only uses DNA services to validate his belief, providing only DNA sample, gender and current weight. Age is Always 6 months. No further identification is provided (i.e description, photo or breed speculations).The 1st DNA sent to DNA my Dog was of an approximately 3 month old dog that showed up on our porch with a broken leg.

I got my girl Tilly from the shelter last year and she was labeled a Chihuahua. However, several people said she looked like a Brussel Griffith, which I had never heard of before, but after looking them up, I agreed. So I thought it’d be fun to do a test, she’s both! The test was easy to administer and I agree with the results the character traits describe her pretty closely. However, I did prefer the wisdom DNA test better. I liked the layout of the results it gave a little bit more detail and listed any known relatives which I appreciated so this test was OK, but I will be using wisdom for here on out.

Fake fake fake: TWICE, they failed. Do not buy this. Horrible. Completely inaccurate. My dog is not any of the three breeds they said he was. I mostly bought this testing kit for fun, to confirm what is known and nothing on the test results came close. It said my dog was divided into three breeds, fairly equally. If they had gotten it correct with any of his actual breeds, and maybe said he is a tiny bit of one of what is known, then maybe I’ll except it as possible. But, it’s not true in the slightest.

I sent a test in for both of my pups that I had adopted from the humane society in the same envelope. The second pup for some reason I couldn’t get registered. I emailed the company and let them know. They responded right back and kept in touch. When they received the swabs they let me register the second test instead of just throwing it away. I know there are people out there thinking this is a scam since you have to send in a picture of your pet. I had received the results back and information about each breed in my pup. He might have all those breeds in him or he might not. Either way I really enjoyed this experience and glad I did it.

Instructions were very clear, and it was very easy to use, I can't wait to get the results