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Its coat is moderately long with feathering on the legs and tail. It is a well proportioned, balanced dog with a gentle expression. This breed represents perhaps the greatest divergence between working and show lines of any breed of dog. A field-bred dog and a show-bred dog appear to be different breeds but are registered together.
[4] [6] [8] The breed has a long, slender head with triangular, erect ears that are rounded at the base, and a long, narrow but balanced muzzle. [6] [1] [9] According to the breed standard a dog that stands 62 centimetres at the withers should have a head 25 cm (9.8 in) long and a muzzle approximately half that length. [8]
This list of dog breeds includes both extant and extinct dog breeds, varieties and types. A research article on dog genomics published in Science/AAAS defines modern dog breeds as "a recent invention defined by conformation to a physical ideal and purity of lineage". [1] According to BigThink, over 40% of the world's dog breeds come from the ...
A dog's vision is actually equivalent to a human with red-green color blindness. Different breeds have different shapes of eyes. It all depends on the purpose. If a dog is a hunter, they most definitely need good eyesight. Therefore, those breeds have a wider range of vision than others.
The Papillon (French pronunciation:, French for 'butterfly[-eared]'), also called the Continental Toy Spaniel, is a breed of dog, of the spaniel type.One of the oldest of the toy spaniels, it derives its name from its characteristic butterfly-like look of the long and fringed hair on the ears.
There are officially two Chihuahua breeds, the long and smooth-coated. Having been established as one breed in 1904, the American Kennel Club split it into two breeds in 1952. 5.
Its development as a breed dates from the 1880s, in southern Germany. [4]: 40 It is a robust and squarely-built dog of medium size, of working or utility type; the coat may be salt-and-pepper or black. A dog of this type was exhibited in Hanover in 1879; another was "Best in Show" at the Westminster Kennel Club in the United States in 1997. [5]
Some of these names are iconic, like Snoop Dogg naming his dog Lil Snoop. Others are straight-up funny, like Glen Powell going with a food name for his pup Brisket.