If you think your dog is fiercely independent because it's a husky, you're probably just projecting.
A dog’s breed contributes a lot to its personality, or so we think. Through history we’ve, like aggressiveness to German shepherds and playfulness to golden retrievers. But when it comes to personality, breed is far from the determining factor.
That means breed is not a good predictor of a pet’s personality. In fact, it explains just 9 percent of behavior, a study published inon April 28 reports. A team of biologists and geneticists surveyed more than 18,000 dogs, about half of which were purebred, and sequenced the DNA of more than 2,000 pooches. The team found that while behavioral traits can be passed down through genes, those markers aren’t unique to individual breeds. What’s more, every characteristic could be found across breeds.
“People hold very strong beliefs that dog breeds are different in their behavior, but I think we have to just accept that sometimes those differences aren’t so extreme,” Kathleen Morrill, a dog geneticist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and co-author of the new study, told
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