Pastoral Dogs
Pastoral dogs are those bred to work with any kind of livestock animal. Generally a breed can be further split into 2 groups, breed bred for herding livestock and another group of breeds bred for guarding livestock.
The pastoral group of dogs used to be in the same large group as the Working dogs, but they were split up into there own group in 1999.
The dogs in this group are generally smaller in size than most Working dogs.
List of Pastoral Dog Breeds :
Anatolian Shepherd Dog
Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Shepherd
Bearded Collie
Belgian Shepherd Dog Groenendael
Belgian Shepherd Dog Laekenois
Belgian Shepherd Dog Malinois
Belgian Shepherd Dog Tervueren
Bergamasco
Border Collie
Briard
Cardigan Welsh Corgi
Catalan Sheepdog
Estrela Mountain Dog
Finnish Lapphund
German Shepherd Dog
Hungarian Kuvasz
Hungarian Puli
Komondor
Lancashire Heeler
Maremma Sheepdog
Norwegian Buhund
Old English Sheepdog
Polish Lowland Sheepdog
Pyrenean Mountain Dog
Pyrenean Sheepdog
Rough Collie
Samoyed
Shetland Sheepdog
Smooth Collie
Swedish Lapphund
Swedish Vallhund
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
List of Other Herding Dog Breeds from Around the World :
Aidi
Australian Kelpie
Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
Basque Shepherd Dog
Beauceron
Berger Picard
Berger Blanc Suisse
Blue Lacy
Bouvier des Flandres
Catahoula Leopard Dog
Dutch Shepherd
English Shepherd
German Coolies
Giant Schnauzer
Huntaway
Icelandic Sheepdog
Koolie
Lapponian Herder
McNab
Mudi
Portuguese Sheepdog
Pumi
Schapendoes
List of other Guarding Livestock Dog Breeds from Around the World :
Akbash Dog
Caucasian Ovcharka
Central Asia Shepherd Dog
Estrela Mountain Dog
Greek Sheepdog
Kangal Dog
Pyrenean Mastiff
Rafeiro do Alentejo
Sarplaninac
Slovak cuvac
South Russian Ovcharka
Spanish Mastiff
Tibetan Mastiff
Tornjak
The above lists are not 100% complete but act as a good representation of the dogs found in these tpes of groups.
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