A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These include livestock guardian dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock and herding dogs used to move, manage and control sheep and other livestock.
The Fédération Cynologique Internationale has grouped Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs) in Group 1.[1]
Herding breeds
edit- Australian Cattle Dog
- Australian Kelpie
- Australian Shepherd
- Basque Shepherd Dog
- Beauceron
- Belgian Shepherds
- Bergamasco Shepherd
- Berger Blanc Suisse
- Bouvier des Flandres
- Briard
- Can de Chira
- Caucasian Shepherd
- Can de Palleiro
- Cão da Serra de Aires
- Carea Castellano Manchego
- Carea Leonés
- Canaan Dog
- Catahoula Leopard Dog
- Catalan Sheepdog
- Chiribaya Dog
- Collies
- Croatian Sheepdog
- Cumberland Sheepdog
- Dutch Shepherd
- English Shepherd
- Finnish Lapphund
- Garafian Shepherd
- German Shepherd
- Gaucho sheepdog
- Huntaway
- Icelandic Sheepdog
- Koolie
- Komondor
- Lancashire Heeler
- Lapponian Herder
- Magellan sheep dog
- McNab
- Miniature American Shepherd
- Mudi
- New Zealand Heading Dog
- Norwegian Buhund
- Old English Sheepdog
- Pastore della Lessinia e del Lagorai
- Picardy Shepherd
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Polish Tatra Sheepdog
- Portuguese Sheepdog
- Puli dog
- Pumi
- Pyrenean Shepherd
- Rottweiler
- Slovak Cuvac
- Tornjak
- Schapendoes
- Schipperke
- Shetland Sheepdog
- Small Međimurje Dog
- Smithfield
- Swedish Lapphund
- Swedish Vallhund
- Welsh Corgis:
Livestock guardian dog breeds
edit- Aidi
- Akbash dog
- Aksaray Malaklisi
- Armenian Gampr
- Bakharwal dog
- Bucovina Shepherd
- Cão de Castro Laboreiro
- Cão de Gado Transmontano
- Carpathian Shepherd Dog
- Caucasian Shepherd Dog
- Central Asian Shepherd Dog
- Estrela Mountain Dog
- Georgian Shepherd
- Great Pyrenees
- Greek Shepherd
- Gurdbasar
- Himalayan Sheepdog
- Kangal Shepherd
- Karakachan
- Kars
- Karst Shepherd
- Komondor
- Koyun dog
- Kuchi
- Kuvasz
- Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog
- Mioritic Shepherd
- Persian Mastiff
- Polish Tatra Sheepdog
- Pshdar dog
- Pyrenean Mastiff
- Rafeiro do Alentejo
- Romanian Raven Shepherd Dog
- Sardinian Shepherd Dog
- Šarplaninac
- Slovak Cuvac
- Spanish Mastiff
- Tibetan kyi apso
- Tibetan Mastiff
- Tobet
- Tornjak
- Vikhan Sheepdog
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ FCI breeds nomenclature, FCI
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