Dog breed groups

The dog breeds are divided in 10 groups. On this page you can learn about all these groups and about the breed group of every dog. Every dog breed group is based on specific common characteristics of the breeds that makes this information especially important when choosing a certain breed.

Sheepdogs and Cattle Dogs (except Swiss Cattle Dogs)

This group includes the dog breeds, which milleniums were man's support for watching the cattle herd...

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Pinscher and Schanuzer - Molossoid Breeds - Swiss Mountain and Cattle Dogs

It is a group which contains dog breeds with different origins, which were raised and selected to wa...

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Terriers

The name of "terrier" comes from the latin word "terra"=ground and refers to dogs which hunt in grou...

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Dachshunds

Thie group includes 3 hair varieties - short, long and wiry. The german people call them -Dachshund ...

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Spitz and Primitive types

Spitz type dogs, or nordic breeds, as they are also called, even they were borned on different conti...

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Scenthounds and Related Breeds

In the starvation peroids in Middle Ages, when hunting animals was a thing about surviving, the help...

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Pointing dogs

These dogs are trained for the examination of the field. They are characterized through the fact tha...

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Retrievers - Flushing Dogs - Water Dogs

This group contain hunting dogs specialized for small prey from thicket and marshes,characterized th...

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Companion and Toy Dogs

The dogs from this breed are making a very varied palette. They belongs to a big number of breeds, w...

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Sighthounds

With provenances from Middle East and Asia, theSighthounds represent thearistocracy of canine breeds...

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