(dog growling)
(dramatic music)
- Alright guys, so my family, the Tabac family,
has had a huge feud for the past couple months.
- I know that Sharik is a wolf
cause I know her mother and father.
- So we went to a wolf sanctuary
and they explicitly said,
- She's 50% wolf.
- [Dad] No, she's 20%.
- So the story that my Mom and my Dad told my family
was that when my Dad was living in Turkey there was
a wolf and a dog chained up
in the forest near my dad's house
and he would always visit them
and one day he found a puppy just running around free.
So he assumed that the wolf and the dog had a little fun,
made a puppy, and now it's running around free.
The Turkish people didn't want those animals in that area,
so they were going to get rid of them
but my dad offered to take the puppy,
and ever since, she's been our dog.
My sister and I don't think she's a wolf because
the wolves that we met at this wolf farm were huge,
they can't really live indoors, they have to be outside.
She's tiny, she has blue eyes,
she just looks like a husky mix.
So what I've done is I've got a DNA test
and I'm going to settle this debate forever.
So this awesome company Embark
sent me a little DNA package
and they're partnered with Cornell University,
and smart people go there so I trust that
and I'm basically going to open it up,
see how it works, and then secretly test my dog.
Or wolf-dog, or I don't know.
We'll see.
Maybe she's a cat.
Ow.
Inside is the box that I guess I'm gonna ship her DNA in.
I don't even know how I'm going to get her DNA.
Do I have to do like blood work and stuff,
or do I just swab her mouth,
or do I have to like, send her hair in?
Okay, so first thing you do, you go online,
you activate your account,
then you swab the mouth.
And then you just put it back into this box,
it's already prepaid, they'll mail it back.
Everything is, this is super easy.
I'm excited to figure out if my dog's a wolf or not.
Sharik.
(kissing sound)
Sharik come here.
Hi girl, okay, so what we're going to do--
(laughs)
She just loves being belly rubbed, okay.
Sharik, okay.
Good girl, good girl, Sharik.
Aw, she's doing so well, good girl, Sharik.
Thank you.
Seal it tight.
Flip it.
Flip it 10 times.
(upbeat music)
(gasps)
We did it, I got my dogs DNA in here,
lets go clone her.
No I'm kidding, I'm not going to do that.
Thank you.
Mwah.
Oh!
Oh my gosh, she farted.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh, you farted.
Alright, well I'm going to mail this
and we're going to see what happens.
Okay, so I'm putting it in the box,
I'm gonna go put it in the mail and mail it out.
Okay guys, so its been a month since I sent the DNA.
We're currently in a cabin, in the woods, in the Poconos
and we got the results,
so, we're gonna go check right now.
Guys, are you ready to see if Shadik's a wolf?
- [Dad] Yes.
- Yes.
- [Son] Where is she?
Sharik are you ready to see the results?
(dog bark)
- We're saying she's got some wolf in her.
- She's got wolf in her.
- And we're saying there's no wolf.
- They sent us results for diseases we could possibly--
that Sharik could possibly have and her DNA,
like what her breed is.
What should we look at?
Just breed?
- No, I don't care about diseases.
- You don't care about her diseases?
- No lets look at both.
- [Brother] Okay wait, okay, okay, here it says,
Skarik has...
Oh my god!
- What?
- Wait, what?
- What?
What do you see? - I'm looking at
the same thing you're looking at.
- It says she's got 50% poodle.
- She's 70% something and 30% something else.
- She's 90% wolf
- No, no guys wait.
Guys.
- You're scaring Sharik.
She's scared. - Okay, 70.8% breed one,
okay. - Okay.
- 29.2% breed two.
- Okay.
- And she's 5.5% high wolfiness.
- What's high wolfiness?
- I don't know but Sharik has wolfiness in her.
She actually has wolfiness in her.
- I told you, you stupid,
I told you. - Google what wolfiness means.
- Okay let's see what--
- That means that she's got wolfiness, she's a wolf.
- No, what if she just has wolflike characteristics.
- Are you giving her wolf like characteristics?
She's either a dog or a wolf.
- The predicted weight is 55 percent pounds.
What does that mean?
- She is 55 pounds.
- Is she actually 55 pounds?
- She's 46 okay.
- And 94 human years?
- Yeah, she's 13 years old. - She's 12,
12-and-a-half years old - This is so accurate.
- Okay wow.
- Wolfiness, let's see what it says.
Most dogs have wolfiness scores of 1% or less,
although we occasionally find populations
and breeds with higher scores
and even some especially unique individuals
with scores of 5% or more.
- She's 5% or more.
- That means Sharik's an actual wolf
- No, read what it means for your dog.
- Wolfiness scores below 10 are almost always
due to ancient wolf genes.
- She's got ancient wolf genes.
- She's not a wolf.
(family arguing)
- No, no, no, no.
No, no, but here it says even some,
especially unique individuals with scores of 5% or more,
that's especially unique.
- Especially unique dog,
not especially unique wolf - It doesn't matter,
she's especially unique dog.
- Who's team are you on?
- Well now I'm excited we have wolf.
- Off camera, I don't think that means she's a wolf
- It does.
- No.
- Well it means she has a large, large...
- Okay, let's play the game, you ready?
- What game?
I just wanted to see.
- We're guessing what breed she is.
Okay, Siberian Husky?
- True.
- No.
- She's 70.8% Siberian Husky
- Yeah, but all Siberian Huskies have a lot of wolf in them
- There was no Siberian Husky in the--
- There was not, her mom and dad,
they're not Siberian Husky.
- Her mom was not a Siberian Husky.
- 70.8% Siberian Husky.
- This is a stupid test that you paid for
because it's not true, she's not--
- Bull Terrier, what do you think, yes or no?
- No. - No!
- Yeah, her father looked like a Bull Terrier.
- Yeah her father was--
- So true?
- Yes, her father was a Bull Terrier.
- Sharik is 29.2% Bull Terrier.
- Yes, that was her father.
- Her mother must have been...
- A Siberian Husky.
- Except her mother was gray like a wolf
- That's what Siberian Huskies look like.
- No, she was gray.
(family arguing)
- Siberian Huskies do look gray.
(laughs)
- Papa's turning around.
- No.
- She looks like Alaskin.
- Alaskan, yeah.
- That's what a Siberian Husky is.
Let's see health, I wanna see Sharik's health real quick.
Zero at risk.
- Oh good.
- She's clear with everything.
We can find her family tree, if you want.
- Oh, family tree.
- Bull terrier, Siberian Husky.
That's her parents.
- Grandparents.
- Wow, and no wolf.
- So let's read about wolfiness.
- She's a mix.
- Yeah, Wikipedia wolfiness.
- Wolfiness.
- That's just the word.
- Wolfy plus -ness gray.
The quality of being wolfy.
- Wolfy, she's wolfy.
- I do think though that we did conclude
that Sharik is a wolf dog.
- Yes, she's a wolf dog.
- She's a wolf dog, she's got more wolf
- I think the dogs at the sanctuary
that were 50% wolf are wolf dogs.
- Sharik is a dog wolf, they are wolf dogs.
That's the difference, dog wolf, wolf dog.
- Well that just was not in our original bet.
- Even after a DNA test my family and I couldn't agree
on what my dog was.
So why don't you guys tell us.
Is my dog a wolf or not?
(upbeat music)