MAKE THE PUPS KNOW WHO’S IN CHARGE
They can ruin everything from your bags to your clothes, your bed sheets to your curtains.
HUNTING THE RIGHT HOUND
Their individual skills, original purposes and temperaments are almost as varied as their origins. Some of the oldest breeds of domestic dogs are the speedy sight hounds. For best results, choose from known kid-friendly breeds such as Golden or Labrador retriever, boxer, beagle, West Highland white terriers or Shetland sheepdogs. The Akita (Japan), the Komondor (Hungary), the Portuguese water dog, the Newfoundland, the Saint Bernard (Switzerland), the Alaskan Malamute, the Bernese Mountain dog (Switzerland) and many more make this group a veritable United Nations of dogs. These same traits often lead to some of these animals being recruited into service positions, either as helper dogs for the disabled or as bomb and drug sniffers for law enforcement agencies. Working Dog Breeds. If you can’t decide between a shepherd, a setter or a poodle, get them all adopt a mutt. Today the slow, prodding bloodhound is usually used by law enforcement to track renegades or missing persons. That’s part of the fun. But despite what those who breed and sell crossbreeds might try to tell you, these are not, nor will they likely ever be, recognized as purebred dogs. It was created in 1983. The millions of mixed-breed dogs around the world are a testament to that. The dachshund, a hound in origin, might seem to be out of place in this group, as its background as a digger accustomed to chasing foxes and badgers underground would more logically make it a terrier. Kid-Friendly Dog Breeds. Sometimes produced randomly, but most often planned by breeders, crossbreeds result from the mating or crossing of two dogs with a different but identifiable lineage.
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