More and more people stop to buy animals and adopt them in animal shelters or shelters to provide them with a better quality of life and prevent them from being slaughtered, if you are also one of these people, you may be looking for your dog.roots or simply has trouble distinguishing one breed from another, as is the case of the French bulldog and the Boston Terrier.
In this article, in a general way, we review the different breeds of dogs that exist and help you to identify, through physical and behavioral aspects, the origin of your dog. Continue reading this Animal Expert article and learn how to identify the breed of a dog.
- We must start with the simplest.
- Which is to see what our dog is like.
- For this it is necessary to analyze the following characteristics:.
Size can help us reject some breeds and make us research more about others, for example, there are a limited number of specimens in giant dog breeds, such as So Bernardo and Bullmastiff.
Curly hairs usually belong to water dogs such as poodles or poodles, while very thick hairs usually belong to dogs of the European shepherd group or spitz dogs.
Wrinkled snouts usually belong to dogs such as the English bulldog or boxer, among others; on the other hand, the thinnest and longer snouts may belong to the group of greyhounds, while the powerful jaws, on the other hand, usually belong to burrows.
Taking into account the specific attributes of your dog, we will continue to analyze the groups of the FCI (International Cynological Federation) one by one so that you can locate the breed closest to your dog.
Group 1 is divided into two sections and for you to be oriented we will explain the most common breeds in each of them, they are shepherd dogs and cowboys, although we do not include Swiss puppies.
In group 4 there is only one breed, sausage dogs, which can vary depending on body size, hair length and color.
In group 6, we find hound dogs, divided into three sections: hounds, bloody dogs and others.
In group 7 we find the knitted dogs, the hunting dogs that point or show with the snout aiming at the prey to hunt are so called.There are two sections: continental-tipped dogs and advanced British dogs.
Group 8 is mainly divided into 3 sections: hunting dogs, hunting dogs and water dogs, we will show you photos so you can identify yourself.
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