A Brief Overview Of Dog Breeds

Dog is a lovely pet and most of the dog owners are extremely cautious for the selection of the dog breed. The dog breeds are the ancestral lines of the dogs. Some dog breeds are natural while selective dog breeding is also carried out for getting the excellent dog breeds. For many years, the selective breeding of dog has been carried out to get the desired dog breeds. Selecting dog breeding is done by two ways firstly, inbreeding the dogs from the same ancestral lines and secondly, inbreeding the dogs from different ancestral lines. In the same ancestral breeding, the same dog breeds mate to reproduce the offspring of the same line.

For enhancing the features of a specific breed, different combination of dog breeds are bred. As a result of the selective dog breeding, there is a wide variety of dog breeds. In the recent years, you can find huge variations in different dog breeds like the characteristics of Chihuahua are totally different from characteristics of Great Dane.

Different types of dog breeds can be generally categorized as registered dog breeds, rare dog breeds and new dog breeds which are under development. The dog breeds are generally categorized on the basis of their functions and there are seven types of dog breeds including Companion dogs, Guard dogs, Hunting dogs, Pastoral dogs, Sled dogs, Extinct dogs, Hypoallergenic breeds and Police dog breeds.

A companion dog is a pet and it is not used for work or specific tasks. Most of the people keep them as hobby or for pleasure and these dogs are friendly by nature.

A guard dog is a dog breed which is used by the people to guard against the unwanted people. The special feature of this dog breed is that they bark more as compare to the other dogs in order to make the owners alert and active. These dogs are trained to attack the suspicious people. Third category of the dog breed is the hunting dog which helps the individuals in hunting. There are three categories of dog breed including hounds, terriers and gun dogs.

The pastoral dog breed include the dogs to work livestock. Sled dogs are healthy and powerful dogs because they are used for pulling the wheel less vehicle on runners. Some dog species are not available and they have become extinct and known as extinct dog breeds. People love to keep dogs because dog is a faithful animal but because of the allergic issues they usually avoid keeping dogs, however, the hypoallergenic dog breeds are for such people. The last category of dog breed is Police dog breed which is used by the police forces for detective purposes.

Therefore, in order to achieve the above functional categories of dog breeds, proper breeding is carried out and special trainings are given to the dogs.