The Portuguese Water Dog worked with fishermen along Portugal's coast, herding fish into nets and carrying messages.
The Saint Bernard was bred by monks at the Great St. Bernard Hospice in the Swiss Alps to…
The Akita comes from the mountainous regions of northern Japan. It was used to guard and hunt.
The Newfoundland comes from Newfoundland, Canada, where it helped fishermen and rescued people from the water.
The Mastiff, sometimes called the English Mastiff, is an ancient guardian breed from England.
The Boxer was developed in Germany in the late 1800s from a hunting mastiff type dog.
The Bernese Mountain Dog comes from the Swiss canton of Bern, where it pulled carts, drove cattle, and…
The Siberian Husky was developed by the Chukchi people of Siberia to pull sleds over long distances in…
The Doberman Pinscher was developed in Germany in the 1890s by Louis Dobermann, a tax collector who wanted…
The Great Dane was developed in Germany to hunt wild boar and later became a guardian and companion…
The Cane Corso is an Italian mastiff breed with roots in ancient Roman working dogs. It guarded farms…
The Rottweiler descends from Roman drover dogs and was developed in the German town of Rottweil to herd…