connivinglinguist

Your questions are my questions.

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I want to believe she didn't answer this one because there are too many CIA secrets involved.

Do you have any advice on getting in contact with your dog's relatives once you've found them, or do you have more reliable ways of doing so planned going forward?

We sent a message to the owner of my dog's brother in a neighboring city, but I'm afraid they never saw it because we never got a response. (Maybe they just don't want to, but I can't imagine why they'd want to deprive Mokey and Radar of a much-needed family reunion...)

They actually made an explainer video about this! The short explanation is that those were much more common fad breeds from previous generations. https://embarkvet.com/resources/dog-dna-testing/why-do-so-many-breeds-have-chow-chow-ancestry/