Different Dog Breeds

A Comprehensive (Almost) List of Different Breeds of Dogs

While we’ve tried our best to round up a tail-waggingly good list of dog breeds, the canine world is a big, fluffy place—and there might be a few rare or recently recognized breeds that slipped through our paws. So if your favorite furball isn’t here, don’t worry—they’re probably just off chasing squirrels or being fabulous elsewhere.

Sporting Group (Gundogs)

Sporting Group dogs (Gundogs)
  1. Brittany
  2. Chesapeake Bay Retriever
  3. Clumber Spaniel
  4. Cocker Spaniel (American)
  5. Cocker Spaniel (English)
  6. Curly-Coated Retriever
  7. English Setter
  8. English Springer Spaniel
  9. Field Spaniel
  10. Flat-Coated Retriever
  11. German Shorthaired Pointer
  12. German Wirehaired Pointer
  13. Golden Retriever
  14. Gordon Setter
  15. Irish Red and White Setter
  16. Irish Setter
  17. Irish Water Spaniel
  18. Labrador Retriever
  19. Lagotto Romagnolo
  20. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
  21. Pointer
  22. Sussex Spaniel
  23. Vizsla
  24. Weimaraner
  25. Wirehaired Pointing Griffon

Hound Group

Hound Group breed of dogs
  1. Afghan Hound
  2. American Foxhound
  3. Basenji
  4. Basset Hound
  5. Beagle
  6. Black and Tan Coonhound
  7. Bloodhound
  8. Bluetick Coonhound
  9. Borzoi
  10. Dachshund
  11. English Foxhound
  12. Greyhound
  13. Harrier
  14. Ibizan Hound
  15. Irish Wolfhound
  16. Norwegian Elkhound
  17. Otterhound
  18. Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen
  19. Pharaoh Hound
  20. Plott Hound
  21. Redbone Coonhound
  22. Rhodesian Ridgeback
  23. Saluki
  24. Scottish Deerhound
  25. Sloughi
  26. Treeing Walker Coonhound
  27. Whippet

Working Group

Working Group of dogs
  1. Akita
  2. Alaskan Malamute
  3. Anatolian Shepherd Dog
  4. Bernese Mountain Dog
  5. Black Russian Terrier
  6. Boerboel
  7. Boxer
  8. Bullmastiff
  9. Cane Corso
  10. Chinook
  11. Doberman Pinscher
  12. Dogo Argentino
  13. Dogue de Bordeaux
  14. German Pinscher
  15. Giant Schnauzer
  16. Great Dane
  17. Great Pyrenees
  18. Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
  19. Komondor
  20. Kuvasz
  21. Leonberger
  22. Mastiff
  23. Neapolitan Mastiff
  24. Newfoundland
  25. Portuguese Water Dog
  26. Rottweiler
  27. Saint Bernard
  28. Samoyed
  29. Siberian Husky
  30. Standard Schnauzer
  31. Tibetan Mastiff

Terrier Group

Terrier Group of dogs
  1. Airedale Terrier
  2. American Staffordshire Terrier
  3. Australian Terrier
  4. Bedlington Terrier
  5. Border Terrier
  6. Bull Terrier
  7. Cairn Terrier
  8. Dandie Dinmont Terrier
  9. Irish Terrier
  10. Jack Russell Terrier
  11. Kerry Blue Terrier
  12. Lakeland Terrier
  13. Manchester Terrier
  14. Miniature Bull Terrier
  15. Miniature Schnauzer
  16. Norfolk Terrier
  17. Norwich Terrier
  18. Parson Russell Terrier
  19. Scottish Terrier
  20. Sealyham Terrier
  21. Skye Terrier
  22. Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
  23. Staffordshire Bull Terrier
  24. Welsh Terrier
  25. West Highland White Terrier
  26. Wire Fox Terrier

Toy Group

Toy Group of dogs
  1. Affenpinscher
  2. Biewer Terrier
  3. Brussels Griffon
  4. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
  5. Chihuahua
  6. Chinese Crested
  7. English Toy Spaniel
  8. Havanese
  9. Italian Greyhound
  10. Japanese Chin
  11. Maltese
  12. Manchester Terrier (Toy)
  13. Miniature Pinscher
  14. Papillon
  15. Pekingese
  16. Pomeranian
  17. Poodle (Toy)
  18. Pug
  19. Shih Tzu
  20. Silky Terrier
  21. Toy Fox Terrier
  22. Yorkshire Terrier

Non-sporting Group

Non-sporting Group of dogs
  1. American Eskimo Dog
  2. Bichon Frise
  3. Boston Terrier
  4. Bulldog
  5. Chinese Shar-Pei
  6. Chow Chow
  7. Coton de Tulear
  8. Dalmatian
  9. Finnish Spitz
  10. French Bulldog
  11. Keeshond
  12. Lhasa Apso
  13. Löwchen
  14. Poodle (Miniature)
  15. Schipperke
  16. Shiba Inu
  17. Tibetan Spaniel
  18. Tibetan Terrier
  19. Xoloitzcuintli

Herding Group

Herding Group of dogs
  1. Australian Cattle Dog
  2. Australian Shepherd
  3. Bearded Collie
  4. Beauceron
  5. Belgian Malinois
  6. Belgian Sheepdog
  7. Belgian Tervuren
  8. Bergamasco Sheepdog
  9. Border Collie
  10. Bouvier des Flandres
  11. Briard
  12. Canaan Dog
  13. Cardigan Welsh Corgi
  14. Collie
  15. Entlebucher Mountain Dog
  16. Finnish Lapphund
  17. German Shepherd Dog
  18. Icelandic Sheepdog
  19. Miniature American Shepherd
  20. Norwegian Buhund
  21. Old English Sheepdog
  22. Pembroke Welsh Corgi
  23. Polish Lowland Sheepdog
  24. Puli
  25. Pyrenean Shepherd
  26. Shetland Sheepdog
  27. Spanish Water Dog
  28. Swedish Vallhund

Miscellaneous & Rare Breed Dogs

Miscellaneous & Rare Breeds dogs
  1. Azawakh
  2. Belgian Laekenois
  3. Czechoslovakian Wolfdog
  4. Dutch Shepherd
  5. Estrela Mountain Dog
  6. Kai Ken
  7. Karelian Bear Dog
  8. Lancashire Heeler
  9. Mudi
  10. Peruvian Inca Orchid
  11. Russian Toy
  12. Thai Ridgeback
  13. Tosa Inu