Dog breeds in India

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To narrow 617 guides quickly, start from a group rather than the alphabet. Each one compares its breeds side by side on heat tolerance and published Indian price.

Heat tolerant57 guidesThe breeds rated 4 and 5 out of 5 for heat tolerance, and what the evidence behind those ratings actually says.Heat sensitive446 guidesThe breeds rated 1 and 2 out of 5, why they struggle, and what the evidence says an owner can do about it.Indian breeds23 guidesEvery native breed of the subcontinent, researched from primary sources rather than repeated from other listicles.Flat-faced8 guidesThe breeds whose shortened airway is the single most decision-relevant fact about owning them in India.Sighthounds13 guidesIndia has more native sighthounds than any other country, and they cost a fraction of the imports.Short-legged11 guidesThe short legs and the disc disease come from the same gene, and the usual advice about stairs is not what the data says.Giant breeds9 guidesWhat a 60 kg dog actually costs to feed in India, and how short these lifespans really are.Toy breeds14 guidesSmall breeds done honestly, including the teacup category that no registry recognises and Indian law prohibits producing.Spitz breeds24 guidesThe group Indian sellers mix up most, and the measurements that actually tell them apart.Bull breeds13 guidesWhat the law actually says in India, and which of these breeds the joint data really favours.Apartment dogs81 guidesThe breeds rated 4 and 5 out of 5 for apartment living, and what the rating does and does not promise.Terriers30 guidesSmall does not mean easy. The terrier group is the most consistently underestimated on the site.Gundogs16 guidesIndia's most popular family dogs, and the two problems the popularity hides.Guardians41 guidesThe group where the buying decision is about handling and liability, not just about the dog.Scenthounds25 guidesBred to follow a scent and ignore you doing it. That one fact decides most of what ownership is like.Types, not breeds61 guidesNames that are used like breeds, sold like breeds, and that no register anywhere holds as a breed.Pointing dogs42 guidesThe breeds bred to find game and freeze on it, almost none of which can lawfully be bought in India.Herding dogs63 guidesBred to move stock, not guard it. The drive arrives in an Indian flat whether or not there is anything to herd.Extinct breeds44 guidesDogs that no longer exist, known from bones, carvings, stud books or eyewitnesses, and why every profile that prices one has invented it.Hairless8 guidesTwo different mutations, one welfare arithmetic, and a sun routine in place of the grooming bill nobody quotes.Pinschers and Schnauzers10 guidesThe FCI's Pinscher and Schnauzer section, the stable-ratting history behind it, and the two members that became police dogs.Mediterranean primitives8 guidesPrick-eared rabbit hunters that work by nose, ear and eye, filed as primitive rather than sighthound, sold on an Egyptian story the genetics rejects.Curs and treeing dogs13 guidesWorking dogs of the rural South written into United Kennel Club standards around one job, finding game and holding it at the tree.

Published guides

617 guides live, listed alphabetically. Each one covers price, heat tolerance, temperament, training, exercise, health and adoption.

Abyssinian Sand TerrierOne female dog mounted in a glass case in Hertfordshire, with no recorded country, no year and no collector, is the entire physical basis for a breed…AffenpinscherBonbeno could not find a single verifiable Affenpinscher for sale in India, and says so.Afghan HoundWhat an Afghan Hound actually costs in India, why every registry forbids clipping the coat that Indian summers punish, what the OFA's 7,957 hip…African village dogAfrican village dog is a scientific category rather than a breed.AfricanisSouthern Africa's landrace dog, shaped by natural selection rather than by breeders.AidiA Moroccan mountain guardian with an FCI standard, almost no published health data, and no Indian market at all.Airedale TerrierWhat an Airedale Terrier actually costs in India, why every published running cost on page one is a converted dollar figure, and what a hand-stripped…AkbashWhich registries recognise the Akbash, which treat it as an Anatolian Shepherd, why four official documents disagree about its size by 19 cm, and why…AkitaWhat an Akita costs in India, why one Indian platform sells the same dog under three names at three prices, what the immune-mediated disease evidence…Aksaray MalaklisiWhy the largest of the Anatolian guardians sits in its own kennel club's group for breeds the FCI does not recognise, how four measured datasets…Alano EspañolSpain's bull-type catch dog, recognised at home and absent from the FCI list.Alapaha Blue Blood BulldogA Georgia farm bulldog with two competing standards, no major kennel club behind it, and no lawful route into India.Alaskan HuskyThe Alaskan Husky has no breed standard and no registry recognition anywhere in the world.Alaskan Klee KaiThe Alaskan Klee Kai is a deliberately created American companion breed from the 1970s, recognised by the United Kennel Club since 1997 and now in the…Alaskan MalamuteSix Indian sources, six different prices, and one tape measure that settles which breed you are actually buying.AlopekisNo kennel club recognises this small Greek landrace, not the FCI, not Greece's own club and not the UKC, whatever the ranking pages say.Alpine DachsbrackeThe FCI standard, the FGF4 chondrodystrophy data this breed actually has, and why no Alpine Dachsbracke can lawfully be bred or sold in India.American BulldogWhat an American Bulldog actually costs in India, how the Johnson and Scott types differ on measurements you can check, and why this breed is neither…American BullyWhat an American Bully costs in India, what the four size classes actually mean, what the breed's own registries say about exaggeration, and why 43.9…American Cocker SpanielWhat a Cocker Spaniel actually costs in India, how to tell the American Cocker Spaniel from the English one before you pay, why the ears are the whole…American English CoonhoundVoice is not a side effect of this breed, it is the job. What the six American coonhound breeds actually are, which registries list this one and which…American Eskimo DogThe fourth white spitz in India's white spitz problem. What the American Eskimo Dog actually is, the three registry size bands that separate it from…American FoxhoundThere is no American Foxhound market in India, and the page says so with the registry records and the import law that explain why.American Hairless TerrierWhat an American Hairless Terrier would cost in India if one existed, why the recessive SGK3 mutation makes this the only hairless breed with normal…American Leopard HoundThe name says leopard and the American Kennel Club says sixty percent of them are solid.American Pit Bull TerrierWhat a pitbull actually costs in India, which of the four breeds you are being sold, what the law says after three High Courts dealt with the 2024…American Staffordshire TerrierWhat an AmStaff costs in India, why the top result for this query prints Staffordshire Bull Terrier figures on an AmStaff page, and the registry fact…American Water SpanielA rare American gundog with a marcel to curly water-repellent coat over long lobular ears.Andalusian TerrierSpain's sherry-cellar rat catcher, provisionally recognised by the FCI in 2024 and described by three official documents that disagree about what it…Anglo-Français de Petite VéneriePetite describes the quarry, not the dog. What the FCI standard actually says, why three of the pages ranking for this breed show a different one, and…Anglo-French HoundFour FCI breeds share this name and no standard. Here is which is which, what the French studbook actually records, and why none of them reaches…Appenzeller SennenhundThe third-largest of the four Swiss Sennenhund breeds, why India has no market for it, and why its exercise requirement rather than its size is the…Argentine PilaWhy no Argentine Pila price in India exists, why the hairless gene every website names for this breed has never actually been sequenced in it, and…Ariège PointerA French pointing gundog that nearly died out twice, produces roughly ten puppies a year in France, and has never been recorded in India.AriégeoisThere is no Ariegeois market in India, and this page says so with the FCI standard, the French studbook and the import law that explain why.ArmantAn Egyptian herding landrace with no FCI recognition, one hard-to-find standard, a famous origin story nobody can evidence, and no Indian market at…Armenian GamprAn Armenian livestock guardian that no international registry outside Moscow recognises, that Indian import law gives no lawful supply route, and that…Artois HoundNo Artois Hound market exists in India, and this page proves it with the FCI standard, the French studbook, three Indian price lists and the import…AskalAskal is a Filipino word, not a breed. It names the free-ranging dogs of the Philippines, a population with no written standard, no registry and no…Assyrian MastiffFive painted clay dogs the length of a teaspoon, buried under a doorway at Nineveh in about 645 BC, are the entire physical basis for a breed that…Australian Cattle DogWhat an Australian Cattle Dog really costs in India, why every ranking page shows you a different dog, the two BAER studies that put congenital…Australian KelpieTwo separately registered populations, one honest answer about heat, and an Indian market that does not survive an audit.Australian ShepherdWhat an Australian Shepherd actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by more than Rs 5 lakh, and the one genetic test half this breed…Australian Silky TerrierOne breed, three registries and two near-identical cousins. What the standards actually say about the Silky's single silky coat and 23 to 26 cm frame…Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle DogAn Australian working breed whose short tail is inherited rather than cut, whose FCI recognition is still provisional twenty-one years on, and which…Australian TerrierThere is no verified Australian Terrier price in India, and the measurements and coat facts that separate this breed from the Australian Silky Terrier…Austrian Black and Tan HoundFCI Standard 63, read from the FCI's own PDF, plus the Austrian register counted rather than described, and the citation loop behind this breed's…Austrian PinscherFCI Standard 64, read from the FCI's own PDF, the Austrian register counted rather than described, and an audit of what the circulating lifespan…AzawakhThe Azawakh is the one imported breed whose heat tolerance holds up under scrutiny.Bakharwal DogKashmir's livestock guardian, kept by Gujjar and Bakarwal herders on the Pir Panjal.Banjara HoundThe sighthound of the nomadic Banjara of Maharashtra, described in hound literature for a century and recognised by no kennel club anywhere.Bankhar DogMongolia's landrace guardian dog, the one Indian buyers meet as a Tibetan Mastiff and Mongolian herders are losing to Tibetan Mastiff crosses.Barak houndA 20 kg Bosnian scenthound with a shaggy double coat, an alpine home climate 15.85 degrees cooler than Bengaluru, and no lawful breeding-import route…Barbado da TerceiraThe Azorean cattle dog, read from its own Portuguese standard and two University of the Azores theses, against Indian heat, Indian law and an Indian…BarbetNo Barbet market exists in India, and the one rupee figure that does exist is attached to a breed that no registry recognises.BasenjiThe Basenji is the one imported breed selected under humid heat rather than dry heat, which inverts everything Indian coastal owners are usually told.Basque Shepherd DogThe Basque Country's own sheepdog, recognised by Spain as two separate racial prototypes eleven months apart, kept in a studbook the national kennel…Basset Artesien NormandA French pack hound built low to the ground, definitively recognised by the FCI since 1963, and effectively absent from India.Basset Bleu de GascogneNo Basset Bleu de Gascogne market exists in India, and this page proves it with FCI-Standard No. 35, the French studbook and the import law.Basset Fauve de BretagneWhy no rupee price for this breed exists, how FCI-Standard N° 36 separates it from the other three bassets clause by clause, and what a harsh fawn…Basset HoundWhat a Basset Hound costs in India, why its ears are the most expensive part of the dog, what the two kennel clubs now disagree about, and what the…Bavarian Mountain HoundFCI Standard 217 read from the FCI's own PDF, the German parent club's hunters-only supply rule quoted from the VDH register, a Finnish Kennel Club…BeagleWhat a Beagle costs in India, what the largest veterinary study of the breed actually found, why the ears and the waistline decide the vet bill, and…Beagle-HarrierA French pack hound with its own FCI standard, 440 French registrations in 2025, and no lawful route into India.Bearded CollieThe Indian search results for this breed are mostly about a different dog.BeauceronFCI-Standard No. 44 read from the FCI's own French and English PDFs, the double dewclaw rule traced through three separate registries, the Dog…Bedlington TerrierThe copper toxicosis genetics read from the primary papers rather than repeated, carrier and affected rates given with their denominators and their…Belgian MastiffBelgium's cart dog hauled machine guns in 1914 and was completely gone by 1960. A programme in Flanders has been rebuilding it since 2000.Belgian ShepherdWhat a Belgian Malinois costs in India, why the Malinois is one of four varieties of the Belgian Shepherd rather than a breed of its own, what the…Bergamasco ShepherdThe Bergamasco's flocked coat is defined precisely by FCI-Standard 194, and every piece of published care advice for it assumes an Italian alpine…Berger PicardA French herding breed rebuilt after the world wars from a single recorded 1950 mating, with 240 French studbook registrations in 2025 and no lawful…Bernese Mountain DogBichon FriseWhat a Bichon Frise costs in India, why the published prices do not overlap, and the two health risks every seller leaves out.Biewer TerrierA 2 to 3.5 kg German toy dog that four registries classify four different ways, and that India has almost no lawful route to supply.BillyThe Billy is a French pack hound so rare that the French studbook registered twelve of them in 2025.Black Mouth CurFive registries define this breed and contradict each other, OFA holds zero records across all 1,287 of its tables, PubMed holds none either, and the…Black Norwegian ElkhoundA separate FCI breed, not a colour of the Grey. Roughly 282 puppies a year, two peer-reviewed papers, zero OFA records, and a black woolly undercoat…Black Russian TerrierFCI-Standard No. 327 read from the FCI's own PDF, the foundation-breed count traced through four sources that disagree, OFA's live register parsed row…Black and Tan CoonhoundA trailing and treeing hound built to work at a distance and tell you where it is by giving voice.Black and Tan TerrierBritain's default terrier colour became a breed name, then four Kennel Club decisions took the name away again.BloodhoundA Belgian leash hound with the most extreme ear leather and facial skin of any recognised breed, sold in India by pages that publish no price.Blue LacyNo major registry recognises this breed, Texas named it by concurrent resolution rather than statute, four Lacy bodies contradict each other on eye…Blue Picardy SpanielA French pointing dog separated from the Picardy Spaniel in 1938 on coat and pigment colour, with 84 French studbook registrations in 2025, no OFA…Bluetick CoonhoundA cold-nosed American scenthound whose registries cannot agree how big it should be.BoerboelWhat a Boerboel actually costs in India, where the breed is banned and where it is not, what the hip and elbow numbers really say, and why a short…Bohemian ShepherdThe Czech Republic's national sheepdog, rebuilt from three dogs of unknown origin after a 1984 newspaper appeal, recognised by the FCI on a…Bohemian Spotted DogA Czech national breed built in a physiology laboratory, missing teeth by design, and coming from a city whose warmest month is cooler than…BologneseWhat a Bolognese costs in India, why the allergy claim on every listing is unsupported, and what a flocked white coat actually costs in Chennai…BolonkaA 3 to 4 kg Russian curly-coated toy that three registries name three different ways, fully recognised by the AKC on 1 January 2026 and still absent…Border CollieWhat a Border Collie really costs in India, why published prices differ by 58 times, what the MDR1 and collie eye anomaly DNA tests mean for an Indian…Border TerrierThe published Indian prices are for a dog nobody in India appears to be selling, and the breed carries a gluten-linked movement disorder better…BorzoiA Russian coursing sighthound built for snow, with a documented drug-metabolism problem, a documented heart-rhythm problem and no Indian supply chain.Boston TerrierWhat a Boston Terrier really costs in India, why the published prices differ by a factor of twenty, and why a shortened muzzle is a harder problem in…Bouvier des ArdennesA Belgian cattle dog rebuilt from four founders, read from FCI-171, two national studbooks and the one paper that exists about it.Bouvier des FlandresEvery published Indian price for this breed is an American dollar figure at 74 rupees, and the standard that describes it asks for a docked tail that…BoxerWhat a Boxer costs in India, why the published prices disagree by more than Rs 1,90,000, what the veterinary evidence says about cancer and Boxer…Boykin SpanielA medium, solid liver-brown American flushing spaniel that traces to one stray found in South Carolina between 1905 and 1910.Bracco ItalianoItaly's oldest pointing breed, recognised by the FCI in 1956 and by the AKC only in 2022, read against Indian humidity, Indian import law and the…Braque DupuyA French pointing breed that the reference works call extinct, checked against the registries that would have to say so.Braque Francais type GascogneStandard 133 is the base text both French pointing breeds are written from, and the ear it demands is a listed fault on its sibling.Braque Francais type PyreneesThe smaller and far commoner of the two Braque Francais breeds, read from FCI standard 134 as the list of ten departures it actually is, with the…Braque FrançaisOne name covers two separate FCI breeds. This guide separates them clause by clause and tests both against Indian heat, humidity and law.Braque Saint-GermainA rare French pointing breed with a documented royal-kennel origin story, sixteen puppies registered in France in 2025, and no lawful route into…Braque d'AuvergneFrance's black-and-white pointing dog from the Cantal, read out of FCI-180 and the French studbook rather than copied from the aggregators, and judged…Braque du BourbonnaisThe rebuilt French pointer with a tail story that Indian buyers are being told wrong, and a home climate cooler than any Indian winter.Brazilian TerrierA 10 kg Brazilian terrier with a naturally short or long tail, an inbreeding problem at home, and an origin climate cooler than Bengaluru.BriardFCI-Standard No. 113 read in its authentic French, the double hind dewclaw rule traced through three registries and set against the Dog Breeding and…Briquet Griffon VendeenThe middle Vendeen griffon: 174 French births a year, a pointed ear no relative shares, and one peer-reviewed disease report in the whole world…Briquet de ProvenceOne of five French breeds the FCI does not recognise: 53 registrations in 2025, a standard numbered 911, and not one peer-reviewed paper in the world…BrittanyA 14 to 18 kg French pointing dog whose standard still prescribes a docked tail India outlaws, whose home region is cooler than Bengaluru in December…BroholmerA 70 kg Danish mastiff rebuilt from four puppies in one 1976 litter, still officially under reconstruction, and born in a country whose hottest month…Bruno Jura HoundThe Jura Laufhund is one of four varieties inside a single FCI standard, its Bruno type is the only one left, and Switzerland registered 27 of them in…Bucovina Shepherd DogA Carpathian flock guardian that the FCI recognised twice under two different names, whose famous 90 kg weight appears in no breed standard on earth…Bulgarian HoundA 53 to 58 cm shaggy Bulgarian scenthound with roughly 120 breeding females left, no FCI standard, no Indian price, and an origin climate 15 degrees…Bulgarian ScenthoundA 54 to 58 cm short-coated black-and-tan Bulgarian boar hound with roughly 150 breeding females, no FCI standard, no Indian price, and a home range 13…Bull ArabNo kennel club anywhere recognises this breed, its parent club's own history page is an unfinished sentence, its code of ethics is copied from a body…Bull TerrierWhat a Bull Terrier costs in India, why the egg-shaped head is written into the breed standard rather than bred by accident, how much of the white…Bull-type terrierThe phrase names a shelf in a registry, not a dog. Four FCI breeds sit on that shelf, their standards contradict each other, their inherited diseases…BulldogWhat an English Bulldog costs in India across seven disagreeing sources, why Bonbeno rates it 1 of 5 for heat tolerance, what the VetCompass and OFA…BullmastiffA 50 to 59 kg English guard dog that two independent scientific datasets classify as brachycephalic, born in a country whose hottest month is cooler…Bully KuttaA giant subcontinental guardian with an ugly modern reputation.Burgos PointerSpain's own kennel club lists this breed as vulnerable, and its own breed club says the ancestry story told in English is patriotic enthusiasm.Bắc HàA northern Vietnamese highland landrace whose only breed standard is published as seven scans, whose issuing body says in a 2022 decision that the…Ca Mè MallorquíMallorca's native pointing dog, named after a grazing lamb: about 200 alive, half of them unregistered, and four published population figures that…Ca Rater MallorquíMallorca's ratting terrier, four kilos and built to jump: 2,119 in the studbook, a tail clause the whole internet misreads, and an abstract that…Ca de BouA 35 to 38 kg Mallorcan catch dog that Spain's own kennel club still lists as vulnerable, rebuilt from a registry that held six dogs, and absent from…Ca de ConillsBalearic law files this Menorcan rabbit dog beside a duck, six pigeons, a pig and a cow, in a catalogue of populations that might one day become…Cairn TerrierA 6 to 7.5 kg Scottish earth terrier whose own kennel club now lists it At Watch, whose harsh coat has to be hand stripped in a country that barely…CalupohThe wolf question answered from the FCM standard and the breed's own guardians, the CITES four-generation rule applied to an eight-generation dog, the…Campeiro BulldogA 35 to 45 kg Brazilian cattle bulldog, FCI-recognised on a provisional basis since August 2025, with a muzzle its own standard measures at a quarter…Can de ChiraAragon's sheep-turning mountain dog, named in a minority language for the job it did: fewer than 400 registered anywhere, no kennel club on earth…Can de PalleiroGalicia's native farm dog, named after the outdoor straw rick it slept beside: about 2,400 alive, four published census figures that nobody has…Canaan DogThe only free-living pariah dog a kennel club ever formally rescued, redomesticated out of the Negev from 1938, and the closest thing on the FCI…Canadian Eskimo DogCanada's own Arctic sled dog, called qimmiq by Inuit, whose registry recorded six puppies in a year and whose home town is colder in its warmest month…Cane CorsoWhat a Cane Corso really costs in India, why two peer-reviewed studies put its lifespan four years below what every Indian page claims, what the 2024…Cane ParatoreA rare Abruzzese droving dog whose entire genetic record rests on two sampled animals, checked against the ENCI and FCI registers rather than against…Cane da Pastore di OropaPiedmont's alpine herding dog, and the registry answer four publishers got wrong: ENCI holds it in an open register for populations in recovery, the…Cantabrian Water DogSpain's newest listed dog breed, from the fishing ports of the Cantabrian coast: 21 dogs in the only genetic study, no kennel club anywhere, and an…Cardigan Welsh CorgiThe Corgi that was never docked, priced in India at four times its sibling and on the strength of paperwork that costs Rs 750, with 80 puppies…Carea LeonesLeon's sheep-driving dog, legally the Perro Leones de Pastor since 2016: one of very few breeds anywhere whose government standard both permits a…Carolina DogThe American Dingo, trapped out of the South Carolina swamps in the 1970s and sold ever since as a surviving pre-Columbian dog.Carpathian Shepherd DogA wolf-grey Carpathian sheepdog whose own standard disqualifies any dog that looks like a mastiff, whose famous 32 to 45 kg weight appears in no breed…Castro Laboreiro DogPortugal's rarest native guardian, measured against its own registry rather than against the breed profiles that copy each other.Catahoula Leopard DogLouisiana's state dog by statute, and the only breed whose enabling law names a private registry: a merle-patterned working dog in which 38.8 percent…Catalan SheepdogCatalonia's flock-driving dog, FCI standard 87 since 1982: one of only two Spanish breeds in the FCI's sheepdog nomenclature, carrying a heavy double…Caucasian Shepherd DogWhat a Caucasian Shepherd actually costs in India, the full paper trail behind the Rs 20 crore and Rs 50 crore dog headlines, and why a Caucasus…Cavalier King Charles SpanielCentral Asian Shepherd DogA 50 kg minimum livestock guardian whose FCI standard sets no upper weight at all, whose ears are cropped in almost every photograph you will be…Cesky FousekWhat FCI Standard 245 says in the German that governs it, why the register and the Czech club disagree by a year, and why the standard's docking…Cesky TerrierA 6 to 10 kg Czech terrier built in 1949 from two named breeds, the only terrier whose standard tells you to cut the coat rather than pluck it, and…ChangkhiThe livestock guardian of the Changpa nomads of the Changthang plateau, and the fifth dog breed India has ever registered.Chesapeake Bay RetrieverThe retriever whose breed standard scores coat higher than head, priced in India off an exchange rate rather than a market, carrying a degenerative…Chien Francais Blanc et NoirFrance's other black and white pack hound: 135 studbook entries in eighteen years, a standard that disqualifies its own sibling's colour, and no…Chien Francais Blanc et OrangeThe rarest of the three Chien Francais breeds: thirteen French studbook entries in eighteen years, a standard unrevised since 1982, and no lawful way…Chien Francais TricoloreA large French pack scenthound whose 2023 FCI revision renamed it and changed nothing else, with 1,137 French studbook entries in eighteen years and…Chien-grisNo kennel club anywhere recognises this breed, no living population exists, and the king and the master of venery who actually hunted with the pack…ChihuahuaWhat a Chihuahua costs in India across five published sources that disagree by a factor of 50, why the molera and the teacup label are the same…Chilean TerrierA 5 to 8 kg Chilean ratter whose own kennel club files it under Group 11, not-recognised-by-FCI, and whose Fox Terrier ancestry the genomics does not…Chinese Crested DogEvery hairless Chinese Crested alive carries one copy of a lethal allele, because the dogs that carried two were never born.ChinookAmerica's rarest working sled dog, rebuilt in 1981 from eleven breedable dogs, and the breed that retains less genetic diversity than any other tested…ChippiparaiTamil Nadu's royal coursing hound, thought to descend from the Saluki, widely held to be the most trainable of India's native breeds, and close enough…Chiribaya DogPeru passed a law about this dog in September 2025. It is still not a recognised breed, no registry anywhere lists it, and the genetic link between…Chongqing DogA Chinese landrace whose own standard prints an FCI classification the FCI has never granted, whose published population runs from 200 to under 2,000…ChortaiA steppe sighthound with a real registry standard, four spellings, and no verifiable presence in India.Chow ChowWhat a Chow Chow costs in India, why Bonbeno rates it 1 of 5 for heat tolerance, and what the largest study of heat-related illness in dogs found…Chukotka Sled DogAn RKF-registered Arctic landrace that the Siberian Husky came from, not a variety of it, and one of the worst possible dogs to keep in India.Cimarrón UruguayoWhat Uruguay's national dog actually is, what its FCI standard says about ears against what Uruguayan custom does to them, and why a breed from a…Cirneco dell'EtnaA heat-adapted Sicilian hound with a genuine claim on Indian summers, an origin story the genetics do not support, and an Indian price that no…Clumber SpanielA 29.5 to 34 kg white flushing spaniel from Nottinghamshire, built long, low and heavy, and the only breed on earth whose own FCI standard warns that…Colombian Fino HoundA Colombian scent hound that the Federation Cynologique Internationale accepted on a provisional basis on 11 February 2026, checked against both…Continental BulldogA 40 to 50 cm Swiss bulldog built as a deliberate health project, with a minimum muzzle length written into its standard as a disqualifying fault, and…Continental Toy SpanielOne breed, two ear varieties and at least three different names on the paperwork. Here is what an Indian buyer actually meets.CoonhoundSix separate breeds share this name, and no dog is registered as just a Coonhound anywhere.Corsican DogRecognised by France's Societe Centrale Canine since July 2003 and by the FCI not at all, with 153 studbook registrations in 2025, a breed club that…Coton de TulearWhat a Coton de Tulear really costs in India, why the published prices differ by a factor of twenty, and why a Madagascan coat is harder work here…Cretan HoundCrete's hare-hunting hound, recognised by the Kennel Club of Greece but absent from both FCI registers, sold on a 4,000-year story no published…Croatian SheepdogA critically endangered Croatian herding breed with 130 registered animals at home, no lawful supply chain into India, and a curled black coat built…Cumberland SheepdogNo kennel club anywhere recognises this dog, no living population exists, and almost everything published about it traces back to a single English…Curly-coated RetrieverThe only common retriever whose breed standard says the coat has no undercoat, a UK Vulnerable Native Breed down to 25 registrations in 2025, ranked…Czechoslovakian WolfdogA German Shepherd and Carpathian wolf cross created by the Czechoslovak army in 1955, recognised by the FCI as standard 332, and the one breed where…Cão de Gado TransmontanoA 75 to 85 cm Portuguese livestock guardian bred to stand between a flock and an Iberian wolf, measured against what India can actually offer it.Córdoba fighting dogArgentina bred a dog whose only job was to win fights, then criminalised the fights in 1954.DachshundWhat a Dachshund costs in India across six published sources that disagree by twenty times, what the peer-reviewed evidence actually says about…Dalbo DogNo kennel club anywhere lists this dog, no living population exists, and the whole English-language internet repeats four sentences that contradict…DalmatianWhat a Dalmatian costs in India, why every single one of them carries the urate stone gene, why up to 30 percent are born deaf, and why a blue-eyed…Dandie Dinmont TerrierAn 8 to 11 kg terrier with a back nearly twice as long as its legs are tall, 88 puppies registered in Britain in 2025, the highest disc-disease allele…Danish SpitzDenmark's rebuilt farm spitz, recognised at home and by the Nordic Kennel Union but not by the FCI, measured against Indian heat with real numbers.Danish-Swedish FarmdogA 34 cm Scandinavian farm dog with a rat-catching job, a jointly Danish and Swedish passport, and almost no presence in India.Denmark FeistThe name says Denmark and the dog is from Virginia. Four registries were searched with working controls, OFA holds zero rows across 13,970, PubMed…DikkulakA small erect-eared watchdog of north-eastern Turkey, described in one study of 61 dogs and registered by nobody.DobermannWhat a Doberman costs in India, why dilated cardiomyopathy is the single most important fact about the breed, what Indian law actually says about ear…Dogo ArgentinoOne in four Dogos in the largest published hearing study was deaf in at least one ear, the March 2024 circular that named this breed is not in force…Dogo CubanoColonial Cuba bred a dog to track and hold human beings, then sold it to Jamaica, to France and to the United States.Dogo SardescoSardinia has two native working dogs of molossoid type. One of them is inside Italy's national register with a standard, a breed code and ten years of…Dogue BrasileiroA 1978 Bull Terrier and Boxer cross, recognised in Brazil and nowhere else, with a breed standard that permits two procedures Indian law forbids…Dogue de BordeauxA French guard dog whose own FCI standard calls it a brachycephalic molossoid, with 5.31 times a Labrador's odds of heat-related illness and the fifth…DonggyeongiGyeongju's naturally bobtailed dog, protected by the South Korean state as Natural Monument No.Drentse PatrijshondA 55 to 63 cm Dutch pointing dog whose breed association surveys every three-year-old and six-year-old in the country, publishes the answers in Dutch…DreverA 30 to 38 cm Swedish scenthound built at a 1:1.5 body ratio, 586 puppies registered in Sweden in 2025, one documented breed disease that is triggered…Dumfriesshire houndThis was never a breed you could buy. It was one man's private pack of large black and tan foxhounds in south-west Scotland, and it was broken up and…DunkerA Norwegian hare hound whose signature merle coat and blue glass eyes are the same trait that carries its best-documented health risk, and which…Dutch ShepherdA working police and military shepherd that never split into show and working lines, sold in India at prices that span a factor of eight.Dutch SmoushondThe Hollandse Smoushond is the clearest documented case in dog breeding of a breed being rebuilt after it stopped existing.East European ShepherdA Soviet service breed with its own RKF standard, recognised by the Nordic Kennel Union and not by the FCI, and routinely sold in India as a German…East Siberian LaikaFCI 305, the largest of the Russian hunting laikas, constantly confused with the West Siberian Laika it does not resemble and cannot lawfully be…Ecuadorian Hairless DogThe rarest hairless dog in the world, and the one nobody has ever genotyped.English Cocker SpanielWhat an English Cocker Spaniel actually costs in India, why the ears are the whole job in a monsoon climate, what the coat colour data says about…English FoxhoundA vulnerable native breed by one register and a thriving pack hound by another. Both are true, and the difference is the whole story.English SetterA UK vulnerable native breed with 176 registrations left, ranked first of 129 breeds in the OFA thyroid register, and sold in India on a price nobody…English ShepherdIt is an American farm dog, not an English one, and its own parent club says in writing that it is both a standardised breed with four registries and…English Springer SpanielWhat the registries, the OFA database and the Indian price pages actually say about this gundog, and what changes when you keep one in Chennai instead…English Toy Terrier (Black & Tan)One dog by American registry arithmetic and two by British. The split runs through the breed's name, its group, its ears and its health data.English Water SpanielIt hunted duck in East Anglia, it had a written standard, and the Kennel Club put it in a class it never bothered to define.English White TerrierIts breed club wrote a standard that disqualified any coloured marking and required cropped ears.Entlebucher Mountain DogThe smallest of the four Swiss Sennenhund breeds, the ectopic-ureter screening programme that halved its own problem, and why no Indian rupee price…Erbi TxakurBasque law calls it a raza and rates it Critica. Spain's own canine annex does not list it.Estonian HoundEstonia's only native breed, built to a height limit its own government set in 1934, still only provisionally recognised by the FCI, and unobtainable…Estrela Mountain DogOne Portuguese standard, two coat varieties, a 66 percent hip dysplasia rate at home, and no lawful route into India for a puppy.EurasierOne breed, three founder breeds, a dated paper trail, and a clause of Indian law that would have made the whole project illegal here.Fell TerrierFour registers were checked one by one, each with a control that returned a result in the same session, and none of them holds a fell terrier.Field SpanielIt is a Royal Kennel Club vulnerable native breed with 48 puppies registered in 2025, and its own nineteenth-century history is the clearest…Fila BrasileiroWhat the current FCI standard really says about strangers, which bans are actually in force, and what the breed costs and needs in an Indian climate.Finnish HoundFinland's own hare hound, measured against Indian heat with the Finnish Kennel Club's own screening, mortality and gene-pool numbers.Finnish LapphundA reindeer-herding spitz from inside the Arctic Circle, measured against Indian heat with NASA POWER wet-bulb data and against 30,562 Finnish…Finnish SpitzFinland's national dog since 1979, bred to find a grouse in a tree and bark at it until the hunter arrives, measured against Indian heat and against…Flat-Coated RetrieverThe best-documented cancer profile of any dog breed, set against an Indian market where not one verified sale could be found.Fox TerrierTwo separate breeds share this name and no register anywhere holds a breed called simply Fox Terrier.FoxhoundFour dogs are called Foxhound, two of them hold kennel club standards, and the register that holds the working population defines the breed as a…French BulldogThe most-quoted Indian price bands disagree by Rs 1,75,000. The published veterinary evidence does not disagree at all.French SpanielFrance's oldest pointing dog, measured against Indian heat, with the one hereditary disease every ranking page leaves out.Fu QuanA Chinese breed name that returns nothing in any register we checked, whose worldwide population of fewer than 15 is footnoted to a Chinese government…Fuegian DogAn animal kept by the Selk'nam and Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego, described by every European who saw it as fox-like, genetically tested exactly…Galgo EspañolThe most repeated number about this breed cannot be traced to any count.Gascon SaintongeoisThere is no Gascon Saintongeois market in India, and this page proves it with a working control.Gaucho SheepdogWhat CBKC standard NR05 actually says, why both Wikipedias cite a Moroccan breed's standard instead, the Brazilian MDR1 study that changes which…Georgian ShepherdWhat the FCI, the Georgian federation and Georgia's own agricultural biodiversity catalogue each say about the Nagazi, why every Indian search for one…German HoundThere is no German Hound market in India, and this page proves it with a working control.German Longhaired PointerA German gundog held by the FCI as Standard No. 117, filed under the Spaniel rather than the Braque type, bred pure since 1879, tested for work before…German PinscherGermany's smooth-haired Pinscher came within one bitch of disappearing.German Roughhaired PointerThe rarest of Germany's four FCI pointing breeds, held as Standard No.German ShepherdWhat a German Shepherd actually costs in India, why the double coat and single coat labels sold here are not breed grades, and what to demand before…German Shorthaired PointerA German hunting dog that has to pass a performance test before it can breed at home, sold in India by sites that hide the price behind a sign-up wall…German SpanielA German flushing dog bred by hunters for hunters, where breeding approval turns on test grades rather than show wins, and where India has one…German SpitzOne dog, three registries, three different size tables. Here is what the FCI, the Kennel Club and the AKC each actually say, and what any of it means…German Wirehaired PointerA German hunting dog that cannot breed at home until it has passed a field test, sold in India by two pages that show no puppies and one that shows…Giant SchnauzerOne breed, three registries, and a 10 kg disagreement about what it should weigh.Glen of Imaal TerrierIreland's only short-legged terrier, recognised by its own national kennel club in 1934, down to 61 UK registrations in 2025, carrying a 39.0 percent…Golden RetrieverWhat a Golden Retriever actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by more than Rs 90,000, and what the breed needs to stay healthy in…Gordon SetterThe only black and tan setter, down to 93 UK registrations in 2025, carrying an rcd4 PRA carrier rate of 28.5 percent in 771 tested dogs, and sold in…Gończy PolskiA medium Polish scenthound that three separate websites sell under three different breeds' descriptions.Grand Anglo-Francais Blanc et OrangeFCI standard 324 runs to one page and has posted no registration in the French studbook in any edition Bonbeno checked from 2005 to 2025.Grand Anglo-Français Blanc et NoirThe largest of the three Grand Anglo-Français breeds, and the only one whose own standard claims 2,000 dogs that the French studbook cannot find.Grand Anglo-Français TricoloreFrance's largest tricolour pack hound, read out of its own breed standard rather than copied from the aggregators, and judged honestly against an…Grand Basset Griffon VendeenA separate FCI breed from the Petit Basset since 1967, the rarest of the four Vendeen griffons in France, and the one the AKC admitted only in 2018.Grand Bleu de GascogneOne of four Bleu de Gascogne breeds, and the one with the best-evidenced bloat risk of any dog in Britain. No Indian market exists.Grand Fauve de BretagneA wolf hound from Brittany that every English page calls extinct, and not one of them dates.Grand Griffon VendeenThe largest and oldest of the four Vendeen griffons, and the one anglophone search results most reliably confuse with a shorter-legged relative.Great DaneWhat a Great Dane costs to buy in India, what it actually costs to feed, why published prices disagree by 70 times, and what the veterinary evidence…Greater Swiss Mountain DogThe largest of the four Swiss Sennenhund breeds, a bleeding disorder that ranks it first in the OFA database, and why the Rs 4 to 7 lakh figure on…Greek HarehoundGreece's only FCI-recognised breed, read off the register rather than off the ranking pages, and tested against Indian heat with real numbers.Greek ShepherdA livestock guardian whose recognition status is genuinely contested, read off the Kennel Club of Greece's own standard rather than off the pages that…Greenland DogThe Qimmeq, one of the world's oldest working dog lineages, an unresolved argument about whether it is the same breed as the Canadian Eskimo Dog, and…GreyhoundWhat an English Greyhound costs in India, how it differs from the Rampur Greyhound that dominates the same search results, what the racing heat data…Griffon Bleu de GascogneThe only rough-coated Bleu de Gascogne, the most numerous of the four in France, and the one Indian law's heat clause speaks to most directly.Griffon BruxelloisA Belgian toy dog that three registries cannot agree is one breed or three, ranked fourth worst of all breeds on OFA hips, and sold in India by pages…Griffon Fauve de BretagneThe medium Fauve de Bretagne, FCI Standard 66, with a real French market and no Indian one.Griffon NivernaisA French wild-boar hound rebuilt twice, whose own breed standard contains a clause written for countries like India, and whose French national kennel…Gull DongA Pakistani bandog created for the fighting pit, sold in India under at least eight different names, and described so inconsistently that published…Gull TerrierA white, erect-eared bull terrier type of the Punjab, primarily Pakistani rather than Indian, and used in dog fighting on both sides of the border.Halden HoundFive of the ten pages ranking for this breed call it the smallest of the Norwegian hounds.Halls HeelerA historical Australian type that no longer exists as a distinct population, tested against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule and against what Indian…HamiltonstövareA Swedish hare and fox hound named for the man who founded the Swedish Kennel Club, with no Indian market, two papers in the world literature filed…Hanover HoundThere is no Hanover Hound price in India and no Indian page about the breed.Haofa (Tangkhul Hui)Manipur's Tangkhul hound, the one Indian breed with a real published characterisation study behind it.Hare Indian DogA small hunting dog kept by the K'ahsho Got'ine and neighbouring Dene of the Mackenzie River, described in detail exactly once, by a naval surgeon in…HarrierWhat a Harrier actually costs in India, why three kennel clubs describe the same dog three different ways, and the two-measurement test that separates…HavaneseWhat a Havanese costs in India when every published price comes from a page selling one, why three registries cannot agree whether the breed even has…Hawaiian Poi DogThe ʻīlio, the native dog of Hawaiʻi, described once at length by a lieutenant on Cook's third voyage, measured as two skulls by an anatomist in 1931…Himalayan SheepdogIndia's high-altitude livestock guardian, wrapped in a coat built for snow.Hmong bobtail dogA Ministry of Defence research centre drafted it, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed it and the Ministry of Science and Technology published it on…HokkaidoA designated natural monument since 1937, recorded at 24 dogs by the Japan Kennel Club and 11 by NIPPO in 2025, counted properly by neither, and sold…HovawartA German working breed rebuilt from 1922 out of farm dogs, German Shepherds, Newfoundlands and Leonbergers, with excellent joints, a badly measured…HuntawayNew Zealand's loudest working dog, tested against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule for what makes a breed, and against Indian heat.Hygen HoundRoyal Canin's Indian page says Norwegians protect the purity of this breed.Hällefors ElkhoundA Swedish elk-hunting spitz created in the late 1930s from a Siberian import and a local elkhound, recognised across the Nordic countries but not by…Ibizan HoundWhat FCI Standard 89 says in Spanish, what the genetics say about Egypt, and why no Indian page quoting a price actually prints one.Icelandic SheepdogIceland's only native dog, rebuilt from 36 founders after a near-extinction, and protected by its own parliament since 1994.Indian Pariah DogIndia's native landrace dog, shaped by natural selection rather than breeders.Indian SpitzThe breed India built for itself. Cheaper than almost anything else, genuinely suited to a hot climate, one of the healthiest small dogs in the…Irish Red and White SetterThe older of Ireland's two setters, recognised last by every register that recognises both.Irish SetterThe younger of Ireland's two setters, bred out of the red and white, and the one Indian sellers actually price.Irish TerrierThe Red Devil of the Emerald Isle, priced in India by dividing an American list by 74.Irish Water SpanielOne Indian page quotes Rs 50,000 to Rs 1,00,000 for this breed, another calls its coat hypoallergenic, and a third prints a Basset Hound heading in…Irish WolfhoundThe Indian pages ranking for this query quote Rs 20,000 to Rs 1,40,000 for a breed none of them has in stock.Istrian Coarse-haired HoundThe wire-coated half of Croatia's Istrian pair, classified critically endangered by its own government, and the one breed whose standard says in its…Istrian Shorthaired HoundThe older-documented of Croatia's two Istrian hounds, the only Croatian native breed with a published genome study, and a dog whose own official…Italian GreyhoundThe smallest sighthound in the world, sold in India by pages that have none of them.Jack Russell TerrierWhat a Jack Russell Terrier costs in India, which of three Russell breeds you are actually being sold, why primary lens luxation is the one test that…JagdterrierGermany's only mandatory-working-trial terrier, measured against Indian heat, Indian law and a standard that describes a docked tail India does not…Janwal PashmiA feathered Marathwada landrace that 207 dogs' worth of MAFSU measurements say is not a Mudhol Hound.Japanese ChinA 25 cm Japanese toy dog with the second-highest BOAS rate of fourteen flat-faced breeds, sold in India at prices five times apart.Japanese SpitzWhat a Japanese Spitz actually costs in India, how to tell one from an Indian Spitz, a Pomeranian, a Samoyed and an American Eskimo Dog before you…Japanese TerrierJapan's only native terrier, built from Dutch Fox Terriers, never made a natural monument, and carrying a 2 mm coat into an Indian summer.JejuRebuilt from three surviving dogs in 1986, held today at a single provincial livestock institute, and the one Korean native breed the state has…JindoSouth Korea's national dog, Natural Monument No. 53 since 1962, and the one breed on this site whose home country makes it a criminal-adjacent act to…JonangiA short-coated Andhra Pradesh landrace that herded ducks around Kolleru Lake, lost its job to aquaculture, and was driven close to extinction.JämthundSweden's national breed and its largest hunting spitz, recognised separately from the Norwegian Elkhound only in 1946.Kai KenJapan's brindle mountain hunter, a designated natural monument since January 1934, and a dog whose top Indian search result is a cryptocurrency.KaikadiA small, lean hunting sighthound from Maharashtra, kept by the nomadic Kaikadi community to take hare and vermin and to guard camps at night.Kamchatka Sled DogThe aboriginal sled dog of the Itelmen and Koryak peoples, tested here against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule and against the Russian register that…Kangal Shepherd DogTurkey's national livestock guardian, weighed against the Indian climate, the Indian price pages and the Indian rulebook.KanniTamil Nadu's black-and-tan coursing hound, once sent with a bride as her guardian, counted at roughly 3,000 animals by the state's own data, and…KarakachanBulgaria's mountain flock guardian, its two competing national standards, and what an Indian buyer is actually being offered.Karelian Bear DogA Finnish big-game barker built in 1936 to hold a bear at bay, recognised as FCI standard 48, with three inherited diseases mapped to named genes and…Karelo-Finnish LaikaA small red Karelian hunting spitz that the FCI counts as a Finnish Spitz and Russia registers as a separate national breed, with no Indian price, no…Kars Shepherd DogA north-east Anatolian livestock guardian with two Turkish state registrations, no FCI standard, no breed code at its own national kennel club, and a…Karst ShepherdSlovenia's national livestock guardian, FCI standard 278, separated from the Sarplaninac by name on 16 March 1968 and measurably different in the…Kazakh TazyKazakhstan's national sighthound, protected by its own statute since January 2023, provisionally recognised by the FCI since September 2024, and not…KeeshondSearch the FCI register for Keeshond and you get nothing. The dog is there, filed under a German name inside another breed's standard.Kerry BeagleIreland's native scenthound, twice the height of the dog it shares a name with, and absent from every register outside Ireland.Kerry Blue TerrierIreland's blue working terrier, priced in India by dividing an American list by 74, and carrying health data no Indian page reports.KhalaThe rare South American hairless dog that three good sources place in three different countries, read off the genetics literature and the registers…King Charles SpanielTwo breeds, two FCI numbers, one name that the whole internet collapses into the other.King ShepherdA modern American breed created in 1990 to be a bigger, sounder German Shepherd, tested here against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule, against its own…King's White HoundThe white running hound of the French kings, extinct for three centuries, read out of the 1561 book that first described it rather than out of the…KintamaniBali's village dog, formalised into Indonesia's first internationally recognised breed in 2019, and genetically identical to the island's free-roaming…KishuJapan's white boar hound from Wakayama, a designated natural monument since May 1934, recorded at 132 registrations in 2025 by the preservation…KokoniThe Kennel Club of Greece prints an FCI group for this breed. The FCI's own register has never held it, and Bonbeno checked three ways.KombaiTamil Nadu's boar-hunting guard dog, bred by the Maravar warrior community and later carried into battle against British troops.KomondorA Hungarian corded livestock guardian, protected by Hungarian law as a national treasure, and one of the hardest coats in the world to keep dry in an…KooikerhondjeA rare Dutch duck-decoy dog rebuilt from a handful of founders, with the inherited disease burden that follows, and no honest Indian price.KoolieAn Australian working landrace whose breed status is genuinely contested, tested here against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule rather than against…KromfohrländerA German breed built after 1945 from one stray dog and his neighbour's fox terrier, now down to 73 registered puppies a year in its own country.KuchiThe livestock guardian of Afghanistan's nomadic Kuchi people, tested here against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule for what makes a breed rather than…KunmaA Chinese police-service cross that reached India's search results as a breed name and nothing else.Kunming DogA Chinese police breed that holds new-breed certificate number one in China's dog category, appears in no FCI, AKC or UKC register, and is not a…Kurdish MastiffA giant livestock guardian landrace of Iraqi Kurdistan with no standard, no studbook, no kennel club in its own country, one research group's worth of…KurīThe kurī, the dog Māori voyagers carried to Aotearoa New Zealand around the turn of the fourteenth century, kept for food, for kahu kurī and for…KuvaszA Hungarian white livestock guardian that is constantly confused with the Komondor, and the only Hungarian breed whose three legally mandated Indian…Labrador RetrieverWhat a Labrador actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by more than Rs 1,10,000, and why a gene deletion in a quarter of the breed…LaconianThe hunting dog of ancient Sparta, read out of Xenophon's own Greek rather than out of the footnote that everybody quotes instead.Lagotto RomagnoloThe only breed the FCI recognises as a truffle dog, and the numbers an Indian buyer actually needs before paying lakhs for one.Lai DogOne of Vietnam's four national dogs, the only one its own kennel association does not recognise, and the one nobody can agree on the size of.Laizhou HongA Chinese guardian breed whose own standard prints an FCI group the FCI has never granted, whose bitch height floor sits above its dog height floor…Lakeland TerrierA vulnerable native breed whose UK registrations have fallen 58 percent in a decade, with a hand-stripped coat that almost no Indian salon will…Lancashire HeelerBritain's smallest herding breed, a vulnerable native breed at 92 UK registrations in 2025, holding the longest median life expectancy of the 155…LandseerSearch Landseer and you get two different animals wearing one name. One is an FCI breed with its own standard number.LangqingChinese sources say plainly that langqing names a wolf-grey coat colour several breeds can carry. English sources turned it into a wolfdog.Lapponian HerderFinland's reindeer-herding spitz, separated from the Finnish Lapphund in 1966, carrying a brand-new 2026 breed standard, 6,850 registered births of…Lapponian ShepherdThe English form of Lapin paimenkoira, a Finnish kennel breed of the 1940s better known as the Kukonharju dog, renamed in 1967 and today registered as…Large MunsterlanderGermany's black and white long-haired pointing dog, measured against Indian heat, Indian law and an Indian market that does not exist.LeonbergerA giant German family dog with three named polyneuropathy variants, a 20 percent osteosarcoma prevalence, and a measured lifespan that is worse than…Levriero SardoThe page every search engine puts first is a three-sentence stub with a citation warning on it.Lhasa ApsoWhat a Lhasa Apso costs in India, what KCI registration actually costs the breeder, why almost every Indian Lhasa Apso lives in a puppy clip, and what…Liangshan DogA Sichuan mountain hunting dog with 12 individuals in the genetic literature, no breed standard in any register on earth, and an English-language…Lithuanian HoundLithuania's only native breed, read off its own kennel club's register and its own veterinary literature rather than off the pages that copy each…Lobito HerrenoEl Hierro's wolf-grey herding dog, measured against the four registers that decide what a Spanish breed is, and against an Indian summer it has never…Lucas TerrierA small British working terrier with a written standard, a club register of over 700 dogs, a deliberately open studbook, a breakaway variant that got…Lupo ItalianoAn Italian dog whose breed standard and stud register are both approved by a ministerial decree, whose association still advertises 30 to 35 percent…LöwchenA German name, a French origin, a French breed standard, and a reputation built on two claims that are both testable.Mackenzie River HuskyA northern freighting dog of the Deh Cho valley, tested here against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule for what makes a breed rather than against…Magyar AgárA Hungarian coursing sighthound that is not a Greyhound, is protected by a parliamentary resolution Bonbeno read in full, has exactly one paper in the…Mahratta HoundIndia's least documented sighthound, and the one whose name causes the most confusion. Wikipedia treats it as its own breed.Majorca Shepherd DogWhat FCI Standard 321 says in Spanish, why the UKC's height range does not overlap it, and why every English page ranking in India is quoting the…MalteseWhat a Maltese costs in India across five published sources that disagree by a factor of six, why four registries cannot agree on how big the dog…Manchester TerrierA 41 cm smooth-coated ratting terrier that three registries cannot agree is one breed or two, sold in India as a 3 kg toy dog.ManetoA 30 to 35 cm short-legged Andalusian rabbit hound from the Campo de Gibraltar, whose own breed standard says the short legs came from a dwarfism…Mantiqueira ShepherdBrazil's newest recognised herding breed, read off the CBKC's own standard NR23 rather than off the pages that copy a height and a weight from a…Maremmano-Abruzzese SheepdogAn Italian livestock guardian whose FCI standard was rewritten twice in three years, whose Australian working population turns up in a heat-illness…MarkiesjeA small black Dutch companion dog rebuilt from Frisian farm dogs in the 1970s, recognised nationally in the Netherlands and by nobody else, whose…Marquesan DogAn extinct dog of the Marquesas Islands known only from carvings, a handful of bones and four burials, described by no European who saw one alive, and…MastiffWhat a Mastiff actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by 66 times, which of its health numbers are measured and which are borrowed…McNabA Californian herding dog with a documented founder, two written standards, two working registries and no kennel club recognition, tested here against…Miniature American ShepherdA 35 to 46 cm American herding dog that carried a different name until 2011, sold in India under three names at once, and carrying a drug sensitivity…Miniature Bull TerrierTwo registries call it a breed, one calls it a variety, and its own standard differs from the Bull Terrier's by a single sentence.Miniature Fox TerrierAn Australian working terrier with its own club, its own written standard and its own pedigree registry, and no place in any national kennel club's…Miniature PinscherWhat a Min Pin actually costs in India across five published sources that disagree by a factor of nearly nineteen, why the registries say it is not a…Miniature SchnauzerThe smallest Schnauzer is a real Indian breed with a real Indian market, and almost everything published about its size, its price and its coat is…MojeeEnglish pages call the Mojee a Chinese dog breed created in the 19th century by crossing German Shepherds.Molossus of EpirusA Greek mountain guardian read off its own kennel club's Greek text and off the ancient authors, rather than off the pages that turn it into a war…Montenegrin Mountain HoundMontenegro's national scent hound, read off FCI standard 279 and off the superseded 1997 text, rather than off the pages that guess at its old name.Moscow WatchdogA Soviet state-programme guard dog built from three breeds, not two, and refused by the FCI.Moscow Water DogA Red Star kennel experiment that failed certification and was absorbed back into the Newfoundland population.Mountain CurAn American treeing dog with four written standards that contradict each other, a 1957 studbook kept in Tennessee, zero rows in the OFA database, and…Mountain FeistA 5 to 14 kilogram American squirrel dog with two written standards that disqualify each other's dogs on ears, no Indian seller anywhere, and a Google…Mudhol HoundKarnataka's sighthound, gifted to King George V a century ago and now serving with the Indian Army, the Air Force and the Prime Minister's security…MudiA Hungarian herding breed that genuinely still works sheep, that English sources keep confusing with the Puli and the Pumi, and whose Indian search…Neapolitan MastiffWhat a Mastino actually costs in India, why the American Kennel Club calls the breed generally hardy while UK data makes it the country's…Nenets Herding LaikaEvery English page about this dog repeats that it is a Paleolithic breed, unchanged for ten thousand years, and most of them cite a genomics paper…New Guinea singing dogAn ancient New Guinea canid whose status is disputed twice over, as a taxon and as a breed, tested here against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule and…New Zealand Heading DogNew Zealand's other working dog, the quiet one, tested against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule and against Indian heat.NewfoundlandWhat a Newfoundland actually costs in India, why six published sources disagree by twenty to one, and why a 68 kg double-coated water dog from a…Norfolk SpanielIt was called the commonest dog in England, it was given a written breed standard, and the men who actually saw it argued in print about whether it…Norfolk TerrierOne breed until 1964, two ever since, and the only thing that separates them is the set of the ear.Norman HoundA large French running hound that died out before France had a studbook, tested against Bonbeno's two-condition rule in its own period rather than in…NorrbottenspetsA small Swedish hunting spitz that the Swedish Kennel Club declared extinct in 1948 and re-registered in 1967, now more numerous in Finland than in…North Country BeagleAn extinct English hound whose whole modern description descends from one sentence Gervase Markham wrote about choosing a swift light hound, and whose…Northern Inuit DogA British composite built in the 1980s to look like a wolf, famous as the Game of Thrones direwolves, holding a written standard and a stud book that…Norwegian BuhundIts own kennel club calls it a healthy breed. Its own spreadsheet gives it the worst hip record of Norway's seven native breeds, and two studies…Norwegian ElkhoundNorway's own kennel club says the ancient-Viking story is a myth and that this is a modern breed between 100 and 200 years old.Norwegian LundehundA Norwegian puffin-hunting spitz with at least six toes on every foot, an inbreeding coefficient its own kennel club puts at 95 percent, and a…Norwich TerrierOne of the smallest working terriers, on the Royal Kennel Club's vulnerable list at 116 registrations, and carrying an airway syndrome named after it.Nova Scotia Duck Tolling RetrieverThe smallest retriever, recognised by four registries that disagree on how long it lives, and carrying one of the best-documented immune-disease…Old Croatian SighthoundEvery page ranking for this breed repeats the same four facts from one Wikipedia stub.Old Danish PointerDenmark's only native pointing breed, held to a hip screen by law and a DNA test by its own kennel club, with no Indian market and a homeland 19.5 C…Old English BulldogThe bull-baiting dog of Georgian England, extinct for roughly two centuries, tested against Bonbeno's own two-condition rule and against what an…Old English SheepdogThe page that opens the sellers' own markup and counts what is actually being priced, reads the Royal Kennel Club's registration PDFs cell by cell…Old Spanish PointerA historical Iberian pointing stock, named in a Spanish government order as an antiguo tronco rather than a breed, and the source of the double-nose…Old Welsh Grey SheepdogA breed that is gone, written from the documents rather than from the other pages about it, with every disagreement left standing.Olde English BulldoggeA modern American breed created from 1971 to rebuild the Georgian bull-baiting dog, marketed as the healthier alternative to the English Bulldog, and…OtterhoundThere is no Otterhound price in India, and the reason is arithmetic.Pachón NavarroNavarre's hunting dog, legally recognised by its own regional government in 2006 and added to Spain's national canine annex only in 2010: the breed…Paisley TerrierIt is the rare extinct dog that passes Bonbeno's breed test outright.Pampas DeerhoundA Brazilian deer hound with a real national standard, a group that admits it is not FCI, and one uncited English paragraph tying it to a Tamil Nadu…Parson Russell TerrierThree registry breeds share the Russell name at three different heights, and India sells all of them under one.Pastor GarafianoLa Palma's goat-herding dog, added to Spain's national canine annex in 2004 with a full state-published prototype: a breed whose own kennel club now…Pastore della Lessinia e del LagoraiA breed in formation, not a breed and not a type: a real standard, a real register, a genomics paper that calls it a variety, and an ENCI code the FCI…Patagonian SheepdogA working landrace in Chilean Patagonia that no registry holds, which genomics has identified as the closest living relative of the herding dogs of…Patterdale TerrierAn English working terrier with three breed standards and a worldwide studbook, none of them held in England, and a Royal Kennel Club that has never…PekingeseWhat a Pekingese costs in India, why Bonbeno rates heat tolerance 1 of 5, and what the February 2026 Cambridge breathing study found when it graded 46…Pembroke Welsh CorgiWhat a Corgi costs in India across six published sources that disagree sevenfold, what the genetics actually say about the short legs and the spine…Perdigueiro GalegoA Galician pointing dog that is a fully recognised Spanish breed at two levels of government, absent from the FCI entirely, and still rebuilding its…Perro MajoreroA brindle livestock guardian from Fuerteventura, one of only 26 Spanish breeds whose racial prototype the state actually printed, and the only breed…Peruvian Hairless DogOne gene decides the coat, the teeth and how many puppies are born alive. Peru wrote a law about the dog. India has never seen one.Petit Basset Griffon VendeenThe best-documented of the four Vendeen griffons, and the only one with two published disease prevalences behind it, both of them higher than the…Petit Bleu de GascogneThe breed named small is the taller of the FCI's two medium blue Gascony hounds.Pharaoh HoundThe registries still say ancient Egypt. The published genetics says Malta, and says it in one sentence you can read for yourself.Philippine forest dogIts Wikipedia article rests on eight references, every one a news item or a club flipbook, and the paragraph directing buyers to six named breeders…Phu Quoc RidgebackOne of three ridgeback breeds on earth, the only one whose own kennel association publishes a numbered national standard, and the one every…Picardy SpanielA French pointing dog held by the FCI as Standard No. 108, accepted on a definitive basis on 8 December 1954, with 168 French studbook registrations…Plott HoundNorth Carolina's state dog, one of the very few American hounds with a documented German origin.Plummer TerrierA red and white English working terrier recognised by no kennel club anywhere, whose own club nonetheless publishes a breed standard and keeps a…Podenco AndaluzOne breed, three sizes and three coats, written into Spanish law in 2001 and still outside the FCI.Podenco CanarioWhat FCI Standard 329 says in its authentic Spanish, what the Spanish state decree leaves out, and why the only rupee figures on the Indian search…Podenco ValencianoA Valencian rabbit-hunting podenco whose own founding order credits it with legendary resistance to extreme heat, and which sits in Spain's national…PointerBritain's oldest pointing breed, now on the Royal Kennel Club's at-watch list, and almost never what an Indian listing is actually selling.PoitevinOne of the tallest scent hounds the FCI recognises, bred in Poitou to run wolves, and described in English by a standard that gets its eyes wrong.Polish GreyhoundA 70 to 80 cm Polish sighthound bred to course wolves. Its own breed standard states no weight, in either the English text or the authentic German…Polish HoundA 56 to 65 cm Polish scent hound with a wrinkled forehead, a folded dewlap and a dense undercoat its own standard requires.Polish Lowland SheepdogA 42 to 50 cm Polish herding dog under a coat that falls over its eyes.Polynesian DogWikipedia's list of extinct dog breeds calls this a catch-all term for four breeds. Wikipedia's own Polynesian Dog article lists five.PomeranianWhat a Pomeranian actually costs in India, how to tell a real one from the Indian Spitz that is routinely sold under its name, and what the screening…Pont-Audemer SpanielFrance registered eight Pont-Audemer Spaniels in 2025, down from nineteen.PoodleWhat a Poodle costs in India, what the registries actually recognise as a size variety, why teacup is a marketing invention rather than a breed, and…PorcelaineFrance's white hound with orange ears, named for a glaze, and the only breed on this site whose Indian search results price it in ceramics.Portuguese PodengoOne breed in three sizes, or three breeds. The FCI, the Portuguese kennel club and the AKC disagree, and the answer changes what you are buying.Portuguese PointerAn Iberian gundog with no undercoat, a homeland August hotter than Bengaluru's hottest month, one paper in the entire clinical literature, and a…Portuguese SheepdogA 17 to 27 kg Portuguese herding dog with a goat-textured single coat, no undercoat at all, and an MDR1 question that changes how an Indian vet should…Portuguese Water DogWhat the Portuguese Water Dog actually costs in India, what the FCI standard really says, and what 12,073 hip evaluations and a documented genetic…Posavac HoundCroatia's scent hound from the Sava valley, read off FCI standard 154 in all four of its language editions, which turn out to disagree with each…Pražský KrysaříkA 2.6 kg Czech ratting dog that the FCI has held on provisional recognition since 2019, whose entire world veterinary literature is two case reports…Presa CanarioA giant Spanish guardian whose Indian legal position is unresolved rather than settled, read from the circular, the customs instruction and two High…PudelpointerA Poodle crossed to a Pointer in 1881, to a specification written down first.PugWhat a Pug actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by more than Rs 70,000, and what the veterinary evidence says about keeping a…PuliA 13 to 15 kg Hungarian herding dog wearing 20 to 30 cm of felted rope.PumiA 41 to 47 cm Hungarian herding dog with corkscrew curls and ears that fold at the top third.PungsanA North Korean state-protected hunting dog from a plateau that averages minus 12 degrees in January, whose two romanised spellings return two entirely…Pyrenean MastiffA very large Spanish flock guardian with a 1954 FCI standard, no weight figure anywhere in it, and no measured lifespan in the scientific literature.Pyrenean Mountain DogA giant French flock guardian whose breed standard requires double dewclaws on the hind legs, gives no weight at all, and comes from a valley whose…Pyrenean SheepdogA small French herding dog that four registries file four different ways, with two FCI standards accepted two days apart in January 1955 and one of…Rafeiro do AlentejoA 45 to 60 kg Portuguese livestock guardian whose published lifespan collapses from 12 to 14 years to 8.03 years the moment you read a life table…RajapalayamIndia's white sighthound, bred in Tamil Nadu to hunt wild boar and nearly lost in the 1980s.Rampur GreyhoundNorth India's royal sighthound, bred by the Nawabs of Rampur and put on an India Post stamp in 2005.Rastreador BrasileiroA Brazilian scent hound bred from the American Foxhound for the Brazilian climate, recognised by the FCI in 1967, lost to the register after a…Rat TerrierAn American farm ratter in two size varieties, with the deepest screening record of any breed in this batch, the third-highest lens luxation carrier…Ratonero MurcianoA small Murcian farm ratter that has been measured, counted and described in detail by its own regional canine association, and is still absent from…Red Decoy DogA fox-coloured English dog that lured ducks into nets, defined in 1886 by what it did rather than by what it was, and survived only through two breeds…Redbone CoonhoundA solid red American coonhound with a documented Georgia foundation, one PubMed paper to its name, and an Indian price that two websites publish to…Rez dogIt names where a dog lives and how it lives, not what it descends from.Rhodesian RidgebackThe ridge is the breed. What the ridge means for a puppy's health changed in 2022, and almost nothing you can read in India has caught up.Rize KoyunA Black Sea flock guardian that the only scientists who ever measured it call a local type, from a province that gets 2,291.7 mm of rain a year and…Romanian Mioritic Shepherd DogA Carpathian flock guardian whose standard demands a coat at least 10 cm long, whose skull shape two peer-reviewed sources disagree about, and whose…Romanian Raven Shepherd DogRomania's fourth and newest national breed, provisionally recognised in September 2024, whose standard requires a coat that is more than 80 percent…RottweilerWhat a Rottweiler costs in India, what the law actually says after two High Courts struck down the 2024 circular, and what the OFA and VetCompass data…Rough CollieThree major registries disagree about what this dog even is. Here is what each of their own documents says, what the Indian price sources actually…Russian SpanielRussia's only gundog breed has a written standard, a national studbook and a whole year of the Russian Kynological Federation's calendar named after…Russkiy ToyA 2.3 kg Russian companion dog rebuilt from pedigree-less stock in the 1950s, with no clinical literature anywhere in PubMed and one hard screening…Russo-European LaikaA Russian all-round hunting dog recognised on a definitive basis since 3 June 1980, with no Indian market, two competing Russian registers and a…RyukyuAn Okinawan boar dog protected by its prefecture, held by one preservation society, and carrying a studbook that stopped issuing pedigrees around…Saarloos WolfdogA Dutch German Shepherd and wolf cross recognised by the FCI as standard 311, carrying the highest measured wolf ancestry of any registered breed, two…Sabueso EspañolA Spanish scent hound whose ears reach past its nose, whose standard the FCI still ties to a working trial, and which has never appeared in a single…Saint Miguel Cattle DogAn Azorean cattle dog of 25 to 35 kg whose own FCI standard describes cropped ears and a docked tail, both of which Indian law prohibits outright.Saint-Usuge SpanielA real breed by both tests and not an FCI one. The Société Centrale Canine published a written standard in 2003 and entered the breed in the French…Sakhalin HuskyA Nivkh sledge landrace, famous for two dogs who survived eleven months alone in Antarctica, and held by no register anywhere on earth.Salish Wool DogOne pelt, one genome, seven Elders and five thousand years of husbandry, read against the paperwork test this site applies to every breed.SalukiWhat a Saluki actually costs in India, why the two sites quoting a price print the same template row, and what a desert coursing hound needs to…SamoyedWhat a Samoyed costs in India, why Bonbeno rates heat tolerance 1 of 5, the diabetes and kidney findings no Indian page reports, and how to verify a…SapsaliKorea's own heritage register carries three different heights for this dog on one page, two different populations and two different dynasties.SarabiAn Iranian livestock guardian whose most-repeated measurement, 80 to 100 cm at the withers, is attributed on Wikipedia to a microsatellite genetics…Sarail HoundBangladesh's only native breed, from Sarail in Brahmanbaria. A short-coated lowland sighthound, widely called nearly extinct, and never once counted…Sardinian Shepherd DogAn endangered Sardinian guardian with a better research literature than most recognised breeds, an Italian register entry that prints an FCI number…SarplaninacA solid-coloured Balkan mountain guardian the FCI still files under a Yugoslav-era name, with two countries in its origin field and no Indian supply…SchapendoesA shaggy Dutch herding dog that almost vanished in the Second World War, came back through a studbook started in 1954, and has since given veterinary…SchillerstovareSweden's oldest scenthound, built in the 1880s on two sibling matings, rebuilt from the mid-1990s with Lucerne, Finnish and Serbian hounds, and the…SchipperkeA small black Belgian sheepdog with a compulsory undercoat, one genuinely breed-specific mutation, and an Indian price that contradicts itself on the…Schweizer LaufhundOne Swiss breed with four named varieties, measured against Indian heat, Indian law, and a homeland whose climate satellites cannot actually measure.Schweizerischer NiederlaufhundThe short-legged Swiss hound whose four colour varieties were four separate breeds until 2015, measured against Indian heat, Indian law and its own…Scottish DeerhoundWhat a Scottish Deerhound costs in India, why two sites disagree by eight times on the price while sharing one cost table, and why a Highland deer…Scottish TerrierA 25 to 28 cm Aberdeen earth terrier that its own registry now lists At Watch rather than Vulnerable, whose harsh double coat was built for a place…Sealyham TerrierA 9 kg white Pembrokeshire earth terrier on the Royal Kennel Club's vulnerable list at 111 registrations, with 45.6 percent of its DNA-tested British…Segugio Italiano a Pelo ForteA 50 to 60 cm Italian scent hound with a rough coat up to 5 cm long and a beard under the lips, holding FCI standard 198 since 1956, and declassified…Segugio Italiano a Pelo RasoA 48 to 58 cm Italian scent hound that fits inside a square, carries the FCI number 337, and is not the same registered breed as the rough-coated…Segugio MaremmanoA 46 to 54 cm rectangular Tuscan boar hound, FCI standard 361, provisionally recognised in 2018, whose two coats live inside one standard and whose…Segugio dell'AppenninoA 42 to 50 cm Apennine hare hound of 10 to 18 kg, admitted to the FCI on a provisional basis on 11 February 2026, whose standard states outright that…Serbian HoundSerbia's national scent hound, read off FCI standard 150 in all four languages, one of which puts its first description 900 years too early.Serbian Tricolour HoundThe Serbian hound that white markings made into a separate breed, read off FCI standard 229 and off the sibling standard it was split from in 1946.Serrano BulldogA stocky Brazilian highland cattle bulldog with a full national standard from the CBKC, a compulsory working trial, a written bite test, and no FCI…Shar PeiWhat a Chinese Shar-Pei costs in India, why published prices disagree by a factor of 35, and why the wrinkles buyers pay a premium for come from the…Sheep dogOne Indian search for this term returned five different dogs, priced from Rs 5,000 to Rs 1,25,000, two of them the same animal under two names.Shetland SheepdogIndia's top-ranking Sheltie sales page quotes Rs 3,50,000 above a carousel of eight dogs that contains no Sheltie.Shiba InuWhat a Shiba Inu costs in India, why almost every one of them is imported under a two-year residence rule, what the Japanese veterinary evidence says…Shih TzuWhat a Shih Tzu really costs in India, why eight published price guides disagree by more than Rs 1,00,000, and what a one-inch muzzle under a…ShikokuA Japanese boar hound that the national register still files under a name the breed dropped in 1939, and that no Indian seller has.Shiloh ShepherdA very large American shepherd breed begun in the 1970s, holding two separately published standards, a mandated health-testing regime stricter than…Siberian HuskyWhat a Siberian Husky costs in India, why the breed is rated 1 of 5 for heat tolerance, what the veterinary evidence actually says, and what the…Silken WindhoundWhat a Silken Windhound costs in India, why the ivermectin question has to be settled before anything else, and why this is the one sighthound in this…Sinhala HoundSri Lanka's indigenous dog, related to the Indian Pariah Dog and shaped by the same tropical pressures.Skye TerrierA 25 cm Hebridean earth terrier that is twice as long as it is high, carries 16 to 20 kg on those short legs, appears exactly once in the whole OFA…Sleuth HoundIt has no standard, no studbook and no separate existence, and the Royal Kennel Club says so on its own Bloodhound page.SloughiWhat a Sloughi costs in India, why two sites disagree by five times while sharing one cost table, and why the breed's normal blood work looks like…Slovak CuvacA 62 to 70 cm white Tatra mountain guardian of 36 to 44 kg, bred white so shepherds could tell it from a wolf at night.Slovak Rough-haired PointerA 57 to 68 cm grey wirehaired Slovak gundog with amber eyes and a moustache the standard insists on.Slovensky kopovA 40 to 50 cm black and tan Slovak boar hound of 15 to 20 kg, with an ideal type specified to the half-centimetre.Smaland HoundA Swedish scent hound whose standard permits a naturally born stumpy tail, whose home registry calls it rare even in Sweden, and which produced 592…Small Međimurje DogA 28 to 33 cm Croatian farmyard ratter that its own state counts in a gene bank at 70 breeding females and 50 males, classifies as critical, and…Small MunsterlanderGermany's brown and white pointing dog, measured against Indian heat, Indian law and an Indian market that sells the book instead of the dog.SmithfieldExtinct in Britain, pushed off the Australian mainland partly because it could not stand the heat, and surviving in the coolest state in Australia.Smooth CollieFifty-six puppies were registered in its home country last year.Smooth Fox TerrierA 15.5 inch English working terrier with a hip dysplasia rate higher than the Labrador Retriever's, a parent club that does not screen for it, and one…Soft Coated Wheaten TerrierA 46 to 49 cm Irish farm terrier in a soft silky coat that never changes with the season, whose own breed club ranks protein-losing kidney and gut…South Russian OvcharkaA 66 cm white steppe flock guardian that India's 2024 customs circular calls ferocious, on a list whose first thirteen entries are Denmark's…Southern HoundIt has no standard, no studbook, no photograph and no measurements, and it was declared extinct five years after the Kennel Club was founded.Spanish MastiffA Spanish flock guardian that starts at 77 cm and has no upper size limit, carries no weight figure in either of its two official standards, and has…Spanish Water DogA curly-coated Andalusian working dog with three named jobs, four mapped genetic diseases, one of the longest measured lifespans of any breed, and an…Spino degli IbleiA 57 to 70 cm Sicilian livestock guardian of 32 to 50 kg, bred for centuries on the Hyblaean plateau to protect sheep and goats, and admitted to…Spinone ItalianoA large Italian gundog with no undercoat, a documented epilepsy problem and no lawful route into India.Sporting Lucas TerrierA short-legged English working terrier created when Brian Plummer crossed Sir Jocelyn Lucas's Sealyham and Norfolk cross with one of his own…St. BernardWhat a Saint Bernard costs in India once you price the food properly, why Bonbeno rates the breed 1 of 5 for heat tolerance, what the OFA hip register…St. Hubert Jura HoundA Swiss hound type the governing standard records as gone, kept alive in English by one Wikipedia stub whose own infobox names a different dog.StabyhounFriesland's black and white pointing dog, measured against Indian heat, Indian law, and a gene pool its own club is now outcrossing to rescue.Staffordshire Bull TerrierWhat a Staffordshire Bull Terrier costs in India, why published prices differ by ten times, the two DNA tests a buyer can demand, and why the breed…StaghoundThe word staghound has been carried by an extinct English pack hound, a living American coursing crossbreed, three surviving British hunt packs, the…Standard SchnauzerThe middle Schnauzer, priced in India as though it were the small one and screened as though it were the big one, with a heart gene that runs the…Stephens StockA little black Kentucky tree dog that three American registries call a breed, its own parent association ignores, and whose homeland summer is the…Styrian Coarse-haired HoundAustria's rough-coated boar hound, made from two other breeds in 1870, and named after a man the FCI's own four standards cannot spell the same way…Sussex SpanielBritain's rarest land spaniel, down to fifteen Kennel Club registrations in 2025 from forty-nine in 2016.Swedish LapphundA solid black, profusely coated Sami reindeer dog from the Arctic Circle, about 1,200 of them alive worldwide, carrying wolf ancestry, a lethal Pompe…Swedish VallhundA 33 cm Swedish herding spitz with the lowest measured genetic diversity of any breed UC Davis has tested, a breed-specific retinopathy carried by…Tahitian DogCook's men ate it, Forster carried two aboard toward England, and Charles Hamilton Smith gave it a scientific name that covered the Hawaiian dog in…Tahltan Bear DogThe only breed on this list that passes Bonbeno's two-condition test, and the only one whose own records say what heat did to it.TaiganWhat the Taigan actually is, measured in 77 dogs in Kyrgyzstan, why it holds no place in any international register while its genetic near-twin does…Taiwan DogA definitively recognised FCI breed with zero papers in the veterinary literature under any of its six English names, and two Japan Kennel Club…Tamaskan DogA deliberately wolf-like sled-dog composite begun in the 2000s, holding a written standard and an open studbook under two competing registers…Tang DogHong Kong's most ordinary dog, treated as the lowest-status animal in the city, belongs to the population whole-genome sequencing puts closest to the…Tarsus CatalburunA rare Turkish pointing dog whose split nose was traced in 2025 to a loss-of-function variant in a gene linked to orofacial clefts.Tatra Shepherd DogA 65 to 70 cm white flock guardian from the Polish Carpathians, carrying a documented blinding recessive that almost nobody can find because the breed…TechichiA name from colonial-era Mexico that the modern internet has turned into a breed profile, complete with a temperament, a lifespan and a price.Teddy Roosevelt TerrierThe short-legged Rat Terrier, recognised by the American Kennel Club only in December 2025, with short legs that are not the chondrodystrophy variant…TelomianFour dogs left the Malay Peninsula between 1963 and 1973 and every Telomian in the West descends from them.Tenterfield TerrierAn Australian working terrier that Dogs Australia still classes as a Breed under Development, a status written to expire on 31 December 2026, and…Terceira MastiffAn extinct Azorean fighting and cattle dog, absent from every register including its own national club's list of unrecognised Portuguese breeds, with…TesemA word, a depiction convention and a criticised 1907 skull study, read against the two-condition test this site applies to every breed.Thai Bangkaew DogA thickly coated white spitz from a Thai province whose April is hotter than a Chennai May, and the only breed in this group whose standard calls it…Thai RidgebackOne of the very few imported breeds whose homeland is hotter and wetter than Chennai, and a breed whose own FCI name returns zero papers.Tibetan Kyi ApsoSix dogs left Tibet in the 1990s and a club in the United States wrote them a standard.Tibetan MastiffWhat a Tibetan Mastiff costs in India, where the 20 crore and 50 crore stories actually came from, what happened to the Chinese market that produced…Tibetan SpanielSecond of 155 breeds for median survival, first of 192 dogs for dentigerous cysts, and not a spaniel.Tibetan TerrierThe breed India named. A Delhi dog show and the Kennel Club of India settled what this dog is called in 1930, and the Federation Cynologique…Tonya FinosuA 9.7 kg white alarm spitz from one Black Sea district, held in Turkey's national register under a code and a different vowel, with no standard…TornjakA 65 to 70 cm livestock guardian held jointly by Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, recovered from near extinction, and unsuited to the Indian…TosaA 2024 Indian circular listed this breed twice under two names. A High Court quashed it within a month.Toy BulldogIts own club adopted the Bulldog's standard and changed one number.Toy Fox TerrierAn American toy terrier with two breed standards that disagree, one Indian price that is a US price in disguise, and a coat that gives it no…Toy Manchester TerrierA 5 kg black and tan terrier that one registry calls a variety, one calls a breed and two do not hold at all, carrying a heart mutation that kills…Toy Trawler SpanielIt had a written standard, a scale of points that sums exactly to 100, a disqualification list and show classes, and the woman who wrote the standard…Transylvanian HoundHungary's Erdelyi kopo, the one hound in its FCI cluster whose standard states a weight, and the one whose standard tells an Indian breeder to break…Treeing CurA breed by both conditions of the test, with a written standard from 1998 and a register that will admit a dog up to half coonhound in three…Treeing FeistThe word feist is a type term and its own breed standard says so in the first line.Treeing Tennessee BrindleA brindle American treeing cur with a UKC standard from 2017, an AKC register with no AKC standard since 1995, and the rarest thing in Indian breed…Treeing Walker CoonhoundThe coonhound the AKC standard itself calls the people's choice, with three recommended health tests, one named disease risk, a Kentucky homeland…Trigg HoundThe Trigg is a strain of the American Foxhound rather than a separate breed, and the two documents that prove it are the founder's own 1890 book and…TugouChinese Wikipedia says in its own opening line that tugou is not the name of any specific breed.Turnspit dogIt was a job before it was a dog, and the job ended. Here is what the 1576 text actually says, when the last one is documented working, where the word…Tweed Water SpanielIt has no standard, no studbook, no photograph and no reliable eyewitness, and it is nonetheless the reason the most popular imported breed in India…Tyrolean HoundAustria's Tiroler Bracke, the one hound in this cluster somebody actually measured, and the measurement is a conservation warning rather than a…ValduezaA very large white pack hound built deliberately from the 1940s for Spanish big-game hunting, the thirty-third and newest name on Spain's national…Valencian TerrierA small Valencian ratting terrier with two official standards that disagree about its proportions, its tail and even which language governs, and which…VikhanA lighter, faster livestock guardian of the Chitral valleys and, by report, Himachal Pradesh.Villano de Las EncartacionesA brindle Basque catch dog bred to grip semi-feral Monchina cattle in steep valleys, the first breed ever added to Spain's national list without a…Villanuco de Las EncartacionesA small Basque ratter and door dog with no breed club, no written standard, no studbook and no census, last counted at about fifty animals, and named…VizslaA single-coated Hungarian gundog with no undercoat, priced in India by pages that give it a height of nine inches and a city table whose ceiling rises…VolkosobA wolf and German Shepherd hybrid population bred at a Russian military institute from the late 1990s, named by Russian law as a potentially dangerous…Volpino ItalianoA small Italian spitz that nearly died out in the 1960s, ranked among Italy's longest-lived breeds, and unavailable in India.Warren HoundNot a breed but a group of Mediterranean rabbit-hunting dogs, and a name the FCI applies to exactly two of its members while the English-speaking…WeimaranerA German gundog whose own FCI standard permits a docked tail where the law allows it, sold in India by a page whose eight Available Weimaraner…Welsh HillmanEverything published about this dog traces to a handful of sources, and two of them turn out to be one.Welsh HoundIt has a United Kennel Club standard, a studbook kept in Powys since 1922 and closed since 1928, and a sentence from its own association telling a…Welsh SheepdogA thousand puppies birth registered, two registers, a published fee schedule, an assessment day on a working farm, and not one line anywhere…Welsh Springer SpanielA vulnerable native breed at 213 Kennel Club registrations in 2025, one of the longest-lived dogs in the largest UK survival study at a median 14.0…Welsh TerrierA 9 kg black-and-tan Welsh working terrier that has lost more than half its British registrations in a decade, whose own registry page contradicts its…West Country HarrierIt has a stud book kept annually since 1891 and no breed standard anywhere on earth, it is not extinct, and its one published health paper is about…West Highland White TerrierA 28 cm white Argyll terrier whose own breed standard ends its coat clause with the words free from obvious skin problems, whose registry tells show…West Siberian LaikaThe breed its own FCI standard calls the most prevalent hunting dog in Russia, bred from Khanty and Mansi dogs, with a homeland whose January mean is…Westphalian DachsbrackeThe German short-legged hound that its own breed standard calls a variety of another breed, measured against Indian heat, Indian law and a German…WetterhounFriesland's curly-coated otter dog, measured against Indian heat, Indian law, and a rescue programme that has crossed it to four other breeds since…WhippetWhat a Whippet costs in India, why only three were listed for sale nationally, what the veterinary evidence says about a breed where 92.5 percent of…White ShepherdAn American breed made by a colour clause: white-coated German Shepherds, disqualified in Germany and then in the United States, registered as a…White Swiss Shepherd DogA white German Shepherd derivative built in the United States and Canada, registered as a Swiss breed in 1991, accepted by the FCI in 2011, and…Wire Fox TerrierA 15.5 inch English terrier with a coat like coconut matting that has to be hand-stripped, one of the six highest glaucoma rates of any breed in North…Wirehaired Pointing GriffonA French wire-coated gundog with no Indian price, no McMillan lifespan row, a named recessive cataract gene, and a breed standard that asks for a tail…Wirehaired VizslaA separate Hungarian breed in four registries and the same breed as the smooth Vizsla in the largest lifespan study ever run, sold in India through a…Xiasi DogA national body under China's Ministry of Public Security records that the Xiasi passed state appraisal in 2009 and 2019, that a 1999 survey found 271…XigouWhy the Xigou is a category rather than a single breed, what a 170K SNP study actually measured in two of its populations, and why China's own state…XoloitzcuintleA 3,000-year-old Mexican breed with a mapped hairlessness mutation, real screening data, and a skin that Indian sun treats very differently from…Yakutian LaikaIt is the only breed in this cluster that passes Bonbeno's two-condition test, and the register says something more precise than the internet does.Yorkshire TerrierWhat a Yorkshire Terrier costs in India, why the published prices disagree ninefold, what a 2026 study of 11,061 Yorkies found about liver shunts and…ZerdavaA medium Turkish spitz hunting dog from the eastern Black Sea coast, measured properly in a study of 100 dogs that almost nobody can find.

How to read these guides

Every breed page follows the same structure, so two breeds can be compared directly rather than read end to end.

• Trait ratings out of 5 sit near the top, including heat tolerance, which almost no other breed site rates and which matters more in India than anything except temperament.
• Price sections compare published sources rather than quoting one figure, because Indian breed prices disagree wildly between sellers.
• Health sections cite primary literature where it exists, and say plainly where it does not. Indian breeds have no equivalent of the large cohort studies that exist for popular Western breeds.
• Every guide ends with adoption, because for many households it is the better answer and nobody pays us to say otherwise.