Different Dog Breeds, Breeders and breeding info
There are hundreds of different breeds of dogs and the most common mistake people make in having a dog is choosing the wrong breed. Active running dogs in apartments, fighting dogs as family pets. While it’s true you can get dogs that are renowned as troublesome and have no problems at all the best bet, especially for those that do not know all there is to know, is to stick with a breed that was breed for a purpose that suits your lifestyle, rather than try to bend the dog around your lifestyle.
The smartest way is to choose from how a dog acts, rather than how it looks.
This is a complete list of breeds recognised by the AKC
- Affenpinscher
- Afghan Hound
- Airedale Terrier
- Akita
- Alaskan Malamute
- American Eskimo Dog
- American Foxhound
- American Staffordshire Terrier
- American Water Spaniel
- Anatolian Shepherd Dog
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Australian Shepherd
- Australian Terrier
- Basenji
- Basset Hound
- Beagle
- Bearded Collie
- Bedlington Terrier
- Belgian Malinois
- Belgian Sheepdog
- Belgian Tervuren
- Bernese Mountain Dog
- Bichon Frise
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Black Russian Terrier
- Bloodhound
- Border Collie
- Border Terrier
- Borzoi
- Boston Terrier
- Bouvier des Flandres
- Boxer
- Briard
- Brittany
- Brussels Griffon
- Bull Terrier
- Bulldog
- Bullmastiff
- Cairn Terrier
- Canaan Dog
- Cardigan Welsh Corgi
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever
- Chihuahua
- Chinese Crested
- Chinese Shar-Pei
- Chow Chow
- Clumber Spaniel
- Cocker Spaniel
- Collie
- Curly-Coated Retriever
- Dachshund
- Dalmatian
- Dandie Dinmont Terrier
- Doberman Pinscher
- English Cocker Spaniel
- English Foxhound
- English Setter
- English Springer Spaniel
- English Toy Spaniel
- Field Spaniel
- Finnish Spitz
- Flat-Coated Retriever
- French Bulldog
- German Pinscher
- German Shepherd Dog
- German Shorthaired Pointer
- German Wirehaired Pointer
- Giant Schnauzer
- Glen of Imaal Terrier
- Golden Retriever
- Gordon Setter
- Great Dane
- Great Pyrenees
- Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
- Greyhound
- Harrier
- Havanese
- Ibizan Hound
- Irish Setter
- Irish Terrier
- Irish Water Spaniel
- Irish Wolfhound
- Italian Greyhound
- Japanese Chin
- Keeshond
- Kerry Blue Terrier
- Komondor
- Kuvasz
- Labrador Retriever
- Lakeland Terrier
- Lhasa Apso
- Löwchen
- Maltese Terrier
- Manchester Terrier
- Mastiff
- Miniature Bull Terrier
- Miniature Pinscher
- Miniature Schnauzer
- Neapolitan Mastiff
- Newfoundland
- Norfolk Terrier
- Norwegian Elkhound
- Norwich Terrier
- Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
- Old English Sheepdog
- Otterhound
- Papillon
- Parson Russell Terrier
- Pekingese
- Pembroke Welsh Corgi
- Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen
- Pharaoh Hound
- Pointer
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Pomeranian
- Poodle
- Portuguese Water Dog
- Pug Dogs
- Puli
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
- Rottweiler
- Saluki
- Samoyed
- Schipperke
- Scottish Deerhound
- Scottish Terrier
- Sealyham Terrier
- Shetland Sheepdog
- Shiba Inu
- Shih Tzu
- Siberian Husky
- Silky Terrier
- Skye Terrier
- Smooth Fox Terrier
- Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
- Spinone Italiano
- St. Bernard
- Staffordshire Bull Terrier
- Standard Schnauzer
- Sussex Spaniel
- Tibetan Spaniel
- Tibetan Terrier
- Toy Fox Terrier
- Vizsla
- Weimaraner
- Welsh Springer Spaniel
- Welsh Terrier
- West Highland White Terrier
- Whippet
- Wire Fox Terrier
- Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
- Yorkshire Terrier
Miscellaneous Class Breeds
The Miscellaneous Class is intended as an interim stage prior to a breed becoming eligible to compete in a variety group at AKC shows. Under our current policy, dogs would become eligible for registration at the time that the breed is brought into the Miscellaneous Class. Before entry into the Miscellaneous Class, the Board will work with the national club to determine the variety group to which the breed will be assigned. After a limited time in the Miscellaneous Class a date would be set, at which time the breed would become eligible to compete in a variety group at all-breed dog shows.
Foundation Stock Service Breeds
- American English Coonhound
- Appenzeller Sennenhunde
- Argentine Dogo
- Azawakh
- Beauceron
- Belgian Laekenois
- Bergamasco
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Bluetick Coonhound
- Bolognese
- Boykin Spaniel
- Bracco Italiano
- Cane Corso
- Catahoula Leopard Dog
- Caucasian Mountain Dog
- Central Asian Shepherd Dog
- Cesky Terrier
- Chinook
- Coton de Tulear
- Czechoslovakian Wolfdog
- Dogue de Bordeaux
- Entlebucher Mountain Dog
- Finnish Lapphund
- German Spitz
- Glen of Imaal Terrier
- Icelandic Sheepdog
- Irish Red and White Setter
- Kai Ken
- Lagotto Romagnolo
- Lancashire Heeler
- Leonberger
- Norwegian Buhund
- Norwegian Lundehund
- Perro de Presa Canario
- Peruvian Inca Orchid
- Pumi
- Pyrenean Shepherd
- Redbone Coonhound
- Sloughi
- Swedish Vallhund
- Thai Ridgeback
- Tibetan Mastiff
- Tosa
- Treeing Tennessee Brindle
- Treeing Walker Coonhound
- Xoloitzcuintli
This information from the AKC Recognized Dog Breeds web page
The AKC Board of Directors has the authority to add a breed to the list of AKC-registrable breeds if, in its opinion, sufficient evidence is presented to justify such action. There are a number of factors the Board considers in making this decision, including documentation that the breed in question has been breeding true for many generations, with accurate record keeping; evidence that there is sufficient interest in the breed throughout the United States; and a national club in place that meets AKC requirements to act as the parent club for the breed.
