Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The results are in!


And they're surprising.  The shelter where we adopted Sancho thought he was a Chihuahua/Dachshund cross, but the DNA test revealed he's in fact mostly a Miniature Pinscher*, mixed with a little English Cocker Spaniel and Lhasa Apso.

I have to say I was a little disappointed - somehow I liked the idea of having a Dachshund - but Dev is delighted, among other things because the breed's German name, Zwergpinscher, means "dwarf-biter."

Our other dogs' results are here.

Dwarf-biter
* Interestingly, I learned that the Miniature Pinscher is not simply a miniaturized Doberman Pinscher, as I had believed. They are in fact a separate breed that was actually developed before the Doberman.

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