This section sorts dog breeds by the traits people notice first: ears, eyes, coat, size and looks. Browse breed lists with pictures for floppy, rose, button and erect ears; blue, green and amber eyes; single, double, triple and wiry coats; and dogs that barely shed.
You will also find the tallest and largest breeds, Great Dane types and rare pitbull colors, plus care guides on grooming brushes, Doberman ear cropping aftercare and keeping a dog house warm without electricity. Designer crosses such as the cavapoochon and cavachon live under Mixed Breed Dogs.
The Great Dane is the tallest dog breed on earth with the Guinness breaking record awarded to Zeus, who had an outstanding height of 44 inches. Despite their statute, they are gentle giants, unruly, and have a great personality. Standardbred…
The American Pitbull Terrier has a thin single smooth coat ranging from multiple shades including black, merle, buckskin, red, among others. One of the greatest things about the pit bull terrier is that it can have any color combination you…
The Terrier group of dogs is the largest group consisting of over 20 types of dogs. They have been around for years dating back to the years when they competed in sporting contests like rat killing. Terriers from the French…
Dogs are sensitive animals. Sensitive to scents, taste, and hearing. They can hear sounds over 30 meters away. They can detect high-pitched sounds with a frequency range of 67-45,000 Hz, compared to a human range of 64-23,000 Hz. What’s annoying…
A Shih pooh is a fluffy interbreed between the Shih Tzu and the poodle; either a toy or miniature breed. The combination is quite unique since both dog types originally have a lot of hair. Which leaves the Shih poo…
Low-shedding dog breeds, from the Bichon Frise, Maltese and Havanese to the Giant Schnauzer and Irish Water Spaniel, with pictures and the pros and cons.
Dogs without tails are termed to have natural bobtails where the animal’s tail grows unusually short or is missing completely because of a mutated dominant or recessive gene. Most of these dogs with a bobbed tail are born without tails…
Owing to genetics, dogs feature various types of attributes including different shapes of dog ears. Doggy ear-types range from pointed, dropping, folded, button, rose, cropped among others. The pointed variety have been known to best survive the wild since they…
They say eyes are the windows to the soul. For dogs, these are just other distinctive features. There are different types of dogs’ eyes from as huge as eyes measuring over 20mm wide to as small as half of that.…
Button ears are described as drop ears with the tipped ends facing forward. The flapped part of the ear doesn’t cover the ear canal like a pull on drop ear, but it does cover a good amount that would otherwise…
