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Hi Dixie, we plan to upload personal results to your dogs profile. The monthly Pupdate is a great place to keep up with the research and where it is at.

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I would agree that it is like she is checking in on you. My Lab does the same thing when off leash, but on leash she is only interested in checking out her surroundings. It is quite an interesting behavior, but I would also assume that it is due to aspects of training, especially if the dog as been trained to heel. I think it is great that you are rewarding it!

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Hi Allison, as of right now I cannot say how long it will take or how many dog are before Lilly. Currently, we are working on a new method of assessing the samples as we hope to be able to provide you with as much data and information about your dog as possible. We apologize for the long wait, but this is the world of research and our goal is to get all the answers that we can!

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Hi Irene, we do have some questions relating to similar behaviors that you have mentioned, many of those coming from published surveys focusing on canine compulsive disorder. We are not veterinarians and cannot diagnose anything. If these behaviors are concerning to you, you can bring up these behaviors to your vet.

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Hi Rebecca, great question! As you may have noticed in the collection tubes that we send out there is a purple/blue colored solution. This is a stabilizing solution which keeps the DNA intact at room temperature. Unfortunately, we have received a couple samples where participants have dumped out this liquid and that is when the sample can go bad.

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Hi Kriss, yes that is correct. I have checked your information and all you will need to do now in order to receive your kits is to validate your address. Please let us know if you have any further questions!

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Gretchen, we cannot say exactly when the results will be available. Right now we are still in the early stages of our research collecting samples, and working on our methods. We originally had planned to genotype the samples, but we are now seeing that this is not providing us with as much data as we would like. We want to be able to provide you with as much data as possible, so we are working on new ways to assess the samples, such as low-coverage sequencing.

When results are ready they will be uploaded to your Darwin’s Dogs profile. As of right now, in terms of the saliva sample, the notification of when received and sample status is what we can provide. For the behavior aspect of this research, we are releasing new surveys each month for participants to take. Please keep checking into your profile for these surveys and updates about our research. Also, you can stay up to date with what is going on by reading our Monthly Pupdate and checking into our social media pages.

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Thank you Karolyn and car2ner! We greatly appreciate your support. Please visit our social media links located at the bottom right hand corner of this page and feel free to post, tweet and share! We also have a vastly growing Doggie Participant Wall here at Umass, so please send us some pictures of your Darwin’s Dog so we can add them to our wall! You can post a picture of your pup on our social media pages or send a picture with your DNA kit. We usually take a picture of the updated wall every once and a while to show our participants. Lastly, you can enroll your Darwin’s Dogs to become dog of the month! To do so, click on the “DOGS” tab, located at the top of this page to enroll or see some of the dogs that are already enrolled. Again, thank you for the support!

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Hi Juan,

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I agree, I think everyone enjoys bragging about their dog! 🙂 As for the results, in the future it would be very interesting to take a look at them, but right now we just don’t have the place to store it. Thank you for the offer though!

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We hope that the data will be able to tell you this, but I do want to clarify that our research mostly focuses on genetics and behaviors. It is not just a breed test. If the data does reveal ancestry about your dog, then we will certainly provided that for you! We believe that this data is yours, and we want to share everything we find with you.

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In the future, Darwin’s Dogs will be creating an App that will be able to collect data about dog behaviors when in various situations and activities. Currently we are working on determining which activities work best for participants to conduct at home, and what behaviors the dogs elicit during the activities. As of right now, we have a local focus group in MA helping us to determine which activities are best for the App. We will certainly let participant know when the App is ready for release!

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Hi Ashley, no doubt these dogs a beautiful and quite interesting! To answer your question, we prefer that dogs enrolled in our study be apart of a family where the owners know the dogs behavior. Our goal is to find correlations between behavior and genetics, and if staff don’t really know shelter dogs, then their answers on the surveys will not be reliable. Thank you for asking, and I hope the dogs going through the shelters find loving homes in no time!

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Hi Becky, we will certainly inform participants. We have not yet gone through to determine which dogs will be prioritized. When we have chosen we will certainly let participants know. We wish that we could genotype all of the dogs that are enrolled, but we just don’t have the resources/money to do so right now. Like I mentioned before though, in the future we certainly want to assess all of the dogs enrolled!

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Hi Christina, thank you for becoming a Darwin’s Dogs member! To get started you will need to create separate profiles for each of your dogs. In their profiles you will find 15 short behavioral surveys, make sure to complete all 15 for both dogs. Once you have done so, please validate your mailing address so we can send you the DNA kits! Please note that the kits will staggered when sending them out in the mail. This is to avoid using the wrong kit, as each kit is specifically ID for each individual dog. Have fun, and please let us know if you have any further questions! 🙂

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