Yes. In fact, mixed-breed pets often produce the biggest surprises, especially if you have adopted your pet and do not know their background. For a mixed-breed pet, we estimate which breeds contribute to their DNA and in what proportions. The estimated family tree also gives you an indication of how those breeds may have been distributed among their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.
Keep in mind that:
- The more mixed their ancestry is, the more breeds appear in the results and the smaller their percentages tend to be. Breeds with very low percentages have the greatest uncertainty.
- Many domestic cats have no recent purebred ancestry because they descend from populations of domestic cats that were never selectively bred as a recognised breed. For these cats, breed results may be less informative, and a genetic affinity with a reference population does not prove that one of their parents belonged to that breed. Genetic traits and, with Advanced, health results can provide useful information within the scope of the variants we analyse.
Discover your pet's origins with the Starter test for dogs or the Starter test for cats.