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AnimalForum.com guide to dog breeds

    These pages contain the origin, breed standard, characteristics, grooming needs, medical issues, and uses for each of 148 American Kennel Club breeds. They are divided into eight groups defined by AKC.
    Before you get a dog, make sure you have chosen a breed that will suit your lifestyle. The information here is designed to help you make a wise choice.

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Herding

  • Australian Cattle Dog
  • Australian Shepherd
  • Bearded Collie
  • Belgian Malinois
  • Belgian Sheepdog
  • Belgian Tervuren
  • Border Collie
  • Bouvier Des Flandres
  • Briard

  • Canaan Dog
  • Collie
  • German Shepherd Dog
  • Old English Sheepdog
  • Puli
  • Shetland Sheepdog
  • Welsh Corgi(Pembroke)
  • Welsh Corgi(Cardigan)
  • Hound

  • Afghan Hound
  • Basenji
  • Basset Hound
  • Beagle
  • Black and Tan Coonhound
  • Bloodhound
  • Borzoi
  • Dachshund
  • Foxhound (American)
  • Foxhound (English)
  • Greyhound

  • Harrier
  • Ibizan Hound
  • Irish Wolfhound
  • Norwegian Elkhound
  • Otterhound
  • Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen
  • Pharaoh Hound
  • Rhodesian Ridgeback
  • Saluki
  • Scottish Deerhound
  • Whippet
  • Non-sporting

  • American Eskimo Dog
  • Bichon Frise
  • Boston Terrier
  • Bulldog
  • Chinese Shar-pei
  • Chow Chow
  • Dalmatian
  • Finnish Spitz
  • French Bulldog

  • Keeshond
  • Lhasa Apso
  • Miniature Poodle
  • Schipperke
  • Shiba Inu
  • Standard Poodle
  • Tibetan Spaniel
  • Tibetan Terrier
  • Sporting

  • American Water Spaniel
  • Brittany
  • Chesapeake Bay Retriever
  • Clumber Spaniel
  • Cocker Spaniel
  • Curly-Coated Retriever
  • English Cocker Spaniel
  • English Setter
  • English Springer Spaniel
  • Field Spaniel
  • Flat-Coated Retriever
  • German Shorthaired Pointer

  • German Wirehaired Pointer
  • Golden Retriever
  • Gordon Setter
  • Irish Setter
  • Irish Water Spaniel
  • Labrador Retriever
  • Pointer
  • Sussex Spaniel
  • Vizsla
  • Weimaraner
  • Welsh Springer Spaniel
  • Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
  • Terrier

  • Airedale Terrier
  • American Staffordshire Terrier
  • Australian Terrier
  • Bedlington Terrier
  • Border Terrier
  • Bull Terrier
  • Cairn Terrier
  • Dandie Dinmont Terrier
  • Fox Terrier (Smooth)
  • Fox Terrier (Wire)
  • Irish Terrier
  • Jack Russell Terrier
  • Kerry Blue Terrier

  • Lakeland Terrier
  • Manchester Terrier
  • Miniature Bull Terrier
  • Miniature Schnauzer
  • Norfolk Terrier
  • Norwich Terrier
  • Scottish Terrier
  • Sealyham Terrier
  • Skye Terrier
  • Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
  • Staffordshire Bull Terrier
  • Welsh Terrier
  • West Highland White Terrier
  • Toy

  • Affenpinscher
  • Brussels Griffon
  • Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
  • Chihuahua
  • Chinese Crested
  • English Toy Spaniel
  • Havanese
  • Italian Greyhound
  • Japanese Chin
  • King Charles Cavalier Spaniel
  • Maltese

  • Manchester Terrier
  • Miniature Pinscher
  • Toy Poodle
  • Papillon
  • Pekingese
  • Pomeranian
  • Pug
  • Shih Tzu
  • Silky Terrier
  • Yorkshire Terrier
  • Working

  • Akita
  • Alaskan Malamute
  • Bernese Mountain Dog
  • Boxer
  • Bullmastiff
  • Doberman Pinscher
  • Giant Schnauzer
  • Great Dane
  • Great Pyrenees
  • Greater Swiss Mountain Dog

  • Komondor
  • Kuvasz
  • Mastiff
  • Newfoundland
  • Portuguese Water Dog
  • Rottweiler
  • Saint Bernard
  • Samoyed
  • Siberian Husky
  • Standard Schnauzer
  • Miscellaneous

  • Anatolian Shepherd
  • Italian Spinoni

  • Plott Hound
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