Working dog

Working dog types

Roles performed by dogs that sometimes sees them classified as working dogs include:

• Assistance or service dog, trained to help a disabled person in some way, such as guiding a visually impaired person, providing mobility assistance, and psychiatric service. Often overlap with therapy dog used to provide companionship or to help people rehabilitate from injuries.
• Carriage dog, historically used to provide protection to carriage passengers or merchandise
• Detection dog or sniffer dog, trained to detect for example drugs or land mines
• Drafting dog, traditionally used to pull small carts. Now survive in modern age as a novelty or in carting sport.
• Guard dog, used to protect buildings or livestock
• Herding dog
• Hunting dog, used to hunt wildlife or assist hunters. Split into several varieties, including hounds, terriers, dachshunds, cur type dogs, catch dogs, bay dogs, or gun dogs.
• Military working dog, trained in combat, or used scouts, sentries, messengers, mercy dogs, and trackers
• School dog, different from assistance or service dogs and trained for animal-assisted education
• Search and rescue dog
• Sled dog
• Working terrier, a terrier bred to hunt small mammals, such as badgers, foxes, and rats

Kennel club classification

When competing in conformation shows, a number of kennel clubs classify various pedigree dog breeds into a "working group" or "working dogs group", although it varies between kennel club what breeds are so classified. The Kennel Club classifies mastiff, pinscher, sled dog, select livestock guardian dog and some other breeds in their working group. The American Kennel Club's working group and the Canadian Kennel Club's working dogs group are very similar to The Kennel Club's except they include all livestock guardian dog breeds and all full sized spitz breeds (not just sled dogs) recognised by the clubs. Both the Australian National Kennel Council's and New Zealand Kennel Club's working dogs groups comprise herding dog breeds and select livestock guardian dog breeds recognised by those clubs. The Fédération Cynologique Internationale has no working group.

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