Dog breeds
23 full breed guides, written for people deciding rather than people browsing - including the health tests to ask a breeder for, and what the breed actually costs to keep.
Breed guides
A small, heavy-boned companion dog with bat ears and a famously easy temperament - and a set of health problem…
A Cocker Spaniel crossed with a Poodle: bright, biddable, low-shedding and consistently the second most-advert…
The default British family dog, and deservedly so: trainable, tolerant and endlessly good-natured. The two thi…
A compact, cheerful gundog with a tail that never stops. Show and working lines are effectively two different …
A short-legged scent hound with an outsized personality and one serious structural problem: roughly one in fou…
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel crossed with a Poodle. Gentle, low-shedding and very people-oriented - but the C…
A large, powerful working dog with exceptional trainability and an equally exceptional need for a job. Superb …
A gentle, sociable gundog and one of the best family dogs there is. The trade-offs are heavy shedding, a stron…
The most trainable dog in the world and the wrong dog for most households. A Border Collie without work does n…
The smallest breed in the world, and far tougher in character than in body. Long-lived and portable, but genui…
A small, sturdy companion bred for centuries to do nothing but keep people company, and very good at it. The c…
A small working terrier with an enormous engine. Long-lived, hardy and cheap to keep, and completely unsuited …
A muscular, affectionate terrier with an outstanding reputation with children and an unfair reputation everywh…
Comic, affectionate and completely people-centred. Also the most extreme brachycephalic breed the Kennel Club …
Possibly the most affectionate small dog there is, and one of the most compromised. Almost every Cavalier deve…
Labrador crossed with Poodle. Friendly, biddable and low-shedding when the cross goes right, and highly variab…
Placid, funny and famously good with children, and the breed with the most serious structural health problems …
A working terrier shrunk to two kilograms, with all the terrier intact. Long-lived, cheap to feed, and far tou…
Beautiful, sociable, healthy, and one of the most frequently rehomed breeds in Britain, because almost nobody …
Powerful, confident and deeply loyal, and one of the most misunderstood breeds in Britain. A well-bred, well-r…
Cheerful, sturdy, wonderful with children and led entirely by its nose. A Beagle on a scent is not being naugh…
A small, bearded, low-shedding terrier-type with the personality of a much larger dog. One of the genuinely se…
Quiet, clean, affectionate and almost embarrassingly easy to live with indoors. Twenty minutes of flat-out run…
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