{"id":4457,"date":"2012-01-25T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:34:50","slug":"a-greyhuahua-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"An Italian Greyhuahua no more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\" style=\"font-size:11px; margin-bottom:20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2012\/rosy-duck.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><br \/><em>Rosy: &#8220;What am I, Mr. Duck? Will we ever really know?&#8221;<br \/>Duck: &#8220;Not bloody likely, kid.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For Christmas, Rosy bought me and Geoff a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisdompanel.com\/\" target=\"new\">Wisdom Panel Insights<\/a> DNA test&#8230; using my credit card. It cost $65 and involved swabbing her cheek to get a sample (she loved that part), sending the sample off to a lab, and waiting three weeks for the results. And those results are in! Drum roll please&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2012\/rosy-dna.png\" class=\"png\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>A Chihuahua mixed with an <em>English Springer Spaniel?<\/em> Seriously?! I call shenanigans. <a href=\"\/blog\/images\/2012\/ears-back.jpg\" target=\"new\">This dog<\/a> has to have at least a smidgen of Italian Greyhound in her.<\/p>\n<p>The report goes on to identify the five &#8220;next best breed matches&#8221; that were detected in her DNA, which could have contributed to the mixed breed grandparent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2012\/rosy-dna2.png\" class=\"png\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Out of those, the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon seems most similar to her body shape, though she does have a few &#8220;long face&#8221; expressions that remind me a lot of a Dachshund.<\/p>\n<p>Before getting this DNA test, I&#8217;d read online that they&#8217;re not accurate. It was really an impulse buy that we did for fun. (Damn you, Humane Society, for putting these right next to the register a week before Christmas!) And now that we &#8220;know&#8221; what she is, I kind of don&#8217;t care. Rosy will always be a Greyhuahua to me. But that&#8217;s the last time I lend her my credit card&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosy: &#8220;What am I, Mr. Duck? Will we ever really know?&#8221;Duck: &#8220;Not bloody likely, kid.&#8221; For Christmas, Rosy bought me and Geoff a Wisdom Panel Insights DNA test&#8230; using my credit card. It cost $65 and involved swabbing her cheek to get a sample (she loved that part), sending the sample off to a lab, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-rosy","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15042,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}