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Working Group is the name of a breed Group of dogs, used by kennel clubs to classify a defined collection of dog breeds. Most major English-language kennel clubs include a Working Group, although different kennel clubs may not include the same breeds in their Working Group. Working Group does not define one particular type of dog. It is not a scientific classification. Working Group is not a term used by the international kennel club association, the Fédération Cynologique Internationale, which more finely divides its breed groupings by dog type and breed history.

Working dogs

Main article: Working dog

There are as many types of work for dogs as there are types of dogs. Lapdogs may work as therapy dogs, herding dogs may work livestock, and guard dogs may work at defense of people or property. Most dogs today are kept as pets rather than for any particular work. Modern purebred breeds developed from large guardian, herding and Spitz type dogs are usually quick to learn, and these intelligent, capable animals make solid companions. Their considerable dimensions and strength alone, however, make many working dogs unsuitable as pets for average families. By virtue of their size alone, these dogs must be properly trained.

Working Group breeds

In general, kennel clubs assign larger breeds that are engaged in some sort of physically active work to their Working Group. In areas of the world where livestock production is economically important, pastoral dogs are placed in the Working Group. In the rest of the world, such dogs are placed in a Herding Group or Pastoral Group, and dogs that were traditionally bred for guarding, rescue, police or messenger work, as well as large Spitz type dogs, are placed in the Working Group. These breeds may also be placed in a kennel club's Utility Group.

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Akita	Alaskan Malamute	Anatolian Shepherd Dog	Australian Cattle Dog (red)
Beauceron	Bernese Mountain Dog	Black Russian Terrier	Border Collie working
Bouvier des Flandres	Boxer	Bullmastiff	Canadian Eskimo Dog
Central Asian Shepherd Dog	| Doberman Pinscher This content has an uncertain copyright status and is pending deletion. You can comment on its removal.	Dogue De Bordeaux	Entlebucher Mountain Dog
German Pinscher	Giant Schnauzer	Great Dane	Greenland Dog
Pyrenean Mountain Dog (Great Pyrenees)	Greater Swiss Mountain Dog	Hovawart	Italian Corso Dog
Kangal Dog	Komondor	Kuvasz	Leonberger
Maremma Sheepdog	English Mastiff (Mastiff)	Miniature Schnauzer	Neapolitan Mastiff
Newfoundland	Portuguese Water Dog	Pyrenean Mastiff	Rottweiler
Russian Black Terrier	Saint Bernard	Samoyed	Swedish Lapphund
Shiba Inu	Siberian Husky	Standard Schnauzer	Tibetan Mastiff

Fédération Cynologique Internationale working groups

The Fédération Cynologique Internationale does not include a group title "Working Group"; its groups "Sheepdogs and Cattle Dogs (except Swiss Cattle Dogs)", "Spitz and Primitive types", and "Pinscher and Schnauzer - Molossoid Breeds - Swiss Mountain and Cattle Dogs and Other Breeds" groups include many of the breeds lumped together in various kennel clubs' Working Groups.

See also

• Breed Groups (dog)
• Working dog includes all types of working dogs
• Utility Group

References

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