Every dog we can measure, painted.

Pawstrata places 258 dog breeds by measured genome sharing — a map of similarity, not a pedigree — and paints a portrait for each of them, and for the blends between them. Send the breed percentages from your dog’s DNA report and it draws your dog’s family tree.

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American Pit Bull Terrier 75 · American Staffordshire Terrier 25

Australian Cattle Dog 50 · Poodle (Small) 50

Every breed we have painted, and every blend.

588 paintings so far — 326 single breeds and 262 blends of two or three. This band is a random handful of them, at the size a chart uses them.

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Polish Greyhound 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Chihuahua 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Entlebucher Mountain Dog 50

Samoyed 50 · American Pit Bull Terrier 25 · Bergamasco Sheepdog 25

Poodle (Standard) 75 · Labrador Retriever 25

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · American Water Spaniel 50

German Shepherd Dog 75 · Golden Retriever 25

Australian Cattle Dog 75 · American Staffordshire Terrier 25

German Shepherd Dog 50 · American Pit Bull Terrier 25 · Samoyed 25

American Staffordshire Terrier 50 · Golden Retriever 50

American Staffordshire Terrier 75 · German Shepherd Dog 25

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Beagle 50

Mudi 50 · Cesky Fousek 25 · Doberman Pinscher 25

Labrador Retriever 75 · American Pit Bull Terrier 25

Samoyed 50 · Cocker Spaniel 25 · German Shepherd Dog 25

American Staffordshire Terrier 75 · Australian Cattle Dog 25

German Shepherd Dog 50 · American Pit Bull Terrier 25 · Siberian Husky 25

American Staffordshire Terrier 75 · Siberian Husky 25

Cocker Spaniel 50 · German Shepherd Dog 25 · Siberian Husky 25

Affenpinscher 50 · American Pit Bull Terrier 50

Great Anglo-French White and Orange Hound

Labrador Retriever 75 · German Shepherd Dog 25

Golden Retriever 75 · German Shepherd Dog 25

Golden Retriever 75 · Chinese Shar-Pei 25

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Border Collie 50

Poodle (Small) 75 · Labrador Retriever 25

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Cane Corso 50

American Staffordshire Terrier 50 · German Shepherd Dog 50

American Foxhound 50 · American Pit Bull Terrier 50

Australian Shepherd 50 · Border Collie 50

American Staffordshire Terrier 50 · Boxer 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Ariege Pointer 50

Kromfohrlander 50 · Labrador Retriever 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Chow Chow 50

American Staffordshire Terrier 75 · American Pit Bull Terrier 25

Labrador Retriever 75 · Golden Retriever 25

American Staffordshire Terrier 75 · Chihuahua 25

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Catalan Sheepdog 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · English Pointer 50

American Staffordshire Terrier 50 · Poodle (Small) 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · Dalmatian 50

American Pit Bull Terrier 50 · German Shepherd Dog 25 · Samoyed 25

American Staffordshire Terrier 50 · Beagle 50

Labrador Retriever 50 · Beagle 25 · German Shepherd Dog 25

Samoyed 50 · American Pit Bull Terrier 25 · Australian Shepherd 25

It starts with a list you already have.

A dog DNA test comes back as breed percentages, and that list is the whole input. No photograph, no pedigree, no guess: paste the report in, or type the breeds yourself if you would rather.

These are Bennie’s, exactly as his came back.

Cocker Spaniel28.1%
Siberian Husky18.1%
German Shepherd Dog17.1%
American Pit Bull Terrier12%
Samoyed9%
American Staffordshire Terrier2.8%
Supermutt12.9%

Supermutt is the test’s own name for the share it could not resolve to any breed. It gets no painting anywhere on this site, because there is no dog to paint.

Then the site works out the tree those numbers make.

Eight great-grandparents, four grandparents, two parents. The site solves the arithmetic that makes those percentages come out, names what each ancestor would have had to be, and fills its ring from the painted library. The same report always draws the same tree.

This is Bennie’s, from the list above, one photograph, and the two sides arranged the way his report’s own family-tree page arranges them. That page settles which side each ancestor sits on and nothing else: the eight ancestors are still what the percentages imply, and neither parent was tested.

Bennie's ancestry drawn as three generations of circular portraits on cream paper: eight great-grandparents across the top, four grandparents below them, two parents, and Bennie's own ring at the foot with his name written above it and a photograph of him inside it — a black dog with a white chest blaze, the only photograph on the chart. On one side sit the two huskies with a German shepherd and a pit bull; on the other both cocker spaniels, a samoyed, and one ancestor named for three breeds at once. One ring holds no picture, a great-grandparent on the husky side. The report's percentages are printed as a single line underneath. — Thirteen of the fourteen ancestors have a picture. The fourteenth is a great-grandparent that is half or less of the breed its name gives it, so the picture we could hang would be a different dog and the plate stays blank. Bennie’s own ring holds a photograph. His owner handed it over.

A mixed ancestor gets a portrait, not a pie chart.

262 of the 588 paintings are blends, composed in quarters — three parts one breed to one part another, or half and half, or a half and two quarters — because that is what a painter can actually hit and what a grandparent actually is. The exact percentages stay on the label.

And this is where it is going.

Same arithmetic, same three generations, same dog. The difference is the finish: every ring has a picture, and the whole thing is drawn as one piece instead of set out in rows.

Bennie's family tree: three generations of dog portraits in thin gold circular frames joined by gold connectors, on a deep navy starfield. Bennie himself is the largest circle at the foot, a black long-coated dog with a white chest, his name set in gold beneath him. — Bennie’s.

Clarence's family tree: the same three generations carried on the branches of a painted watercolour tree, portraits in oval frames with small ribbon labels, wildflowers across the foot, on cream paper. — Clarence’s, in a completely different style.

Put your own dog through it or see every breed we have painted →

And behind all of it, one drawing of the whole panel.

Every breed on this site sits somewhere on a single measured layout of 258 breeds, 18 village-dog populations and the grey wolf, built from genome-wide similarity across 67,250 variants. It is a map of similarity, not a pedigree.

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