I think this thread has died, so I’ll spill the beans about Juliette.
My wife took her away from a litter of puppies, from a mother who was a dog running wild with no owners in the Village of American Samoa. She had an infection, so at two weeks old after being cleaned up, the mother would not accept her back. So we bottle fed her and raised her from two weeks old. Anyone from American Samoa will recognize her immediately. There are a lot of Village dogs just running wild.
We thought she was a mutt, with some Golden Retriever and some Pitbull in her.
Then Wifey sent her DNA away with just a swab and her name, no other information. This is what came back:
American Village Dog, 84% of her DNA dates back more than 2,000 years ago, as wild dogs who gathered with humans around camp fires in Asia. They later migrated to other parts of the world including, American possessions, such as Guam, Porto Rico and American Samoa.
Over the years, from her ancestors, the following dogs were bred:
German Shepard, Rottweiler, Doberman Pincher and the American Pitbull.
Listed as an aggressive dog, which is pretty accurate, besides having the UPS man pinned against my front door for almost an hour, she almost managed to get me into court.