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Every breed profile on this site carries recorded traits: a size class, a group, a family, scores for energy, training, shedding, grooming and barking, notes on life with children, other dogs and strangers, and, for many breeds, a historical working role and a coat description. This hub turns those records around. Instead of starting from a breed and reading its traits, it starts from a trait and lists every breed the records give that trait. A page exists only where at least eight breeds carry the value, and no breed is ever placed by guesswork: if the records do not state a trait for a breed, the breed is not on the page.
The hub holds 72 trait lists and 6884 breed listings in all, each list computed from the same records the breed profiles are built from.
The five size classes the records use, from toy to giant.
The breed groups the records class every breed into.
111 breeds in the records.
79 breeds in the records.
66 breeds in the records.
64 breeds in the records.
53 breeds in the records.
50 breeds in the records.
27 breeds in the records.
19 breeds in the records.
The family shelves of the master records, broader than the groups.
127 breeds in the records.
100 breeds in the records.
89 breeds in the records.
66 breeds in the records.
60 breeds in the records.
27 breeds in the records.
Energy scored out of five in every breed record.
Trainability scored out of five, from the easiest to the most patience testing.
Shedding scored out of five, lowest first.
Grooming needs scored out of five.
Barking scored out of five; the quiet end is the short list.
How each breed record reads on life with children.
How each breed record reads on life with other dogs.
How each breed record reads on meeting strangers.
What each breed record says about apartment living.
Coat length, counted only where a breed's own recorded coat description names one.
Coat type, counted only where a breed's own recorded coat description names the type.
The historical working roles the records hold, breed by breed.
87 breeds in the records.
73 breeds in the records.
64 breeds in the records.
41 breeds in the records.
36 breeds in the records.
32 breeds in the records.
31 breeds in the records.
22 breeds in the records.
20 breeds in the records.
19 breeds in the records.
19 breeds in the records.
16 breeds in the records.
8 breeds in the records.