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Dogs have been bred for thousands of years (approximately 15,000 years of breeding exist between the original wild wolf and what we know today as our companion dogs) sometimes by interbreeding (where dogs from the same genetic line are bred together) or by mixing genetic lines to create new breeds. Of course, this has resulted in a very wide variety of breeds and hybrids (including wolf hybrids) from the little Chihuahua to the lumbering Great Dane.
Breeding and inter-breeding only has control and regulation at a “pedigree” level, overseen by The Kennel Club of Great Britain and in the USA, The American Kennel Club, so it’s difficult to give an accurate answer to: “how many breeds of dog are there?”. Furthermore, breeds historically have been initially created, or bred, and subsequently altered to suit their original purpose: companion dogs are generally affectionate, soft-natured and family-friendly; guard dogs are alert, bond strongly with few people and are trained to show aggression in either display and/or physical act; hunting dogs have highly sensitive olfactory cells, use their nose a lot and show determination to follow scents (even through hedges!); herding dogs who are trained to keep groups of livestock (such as herds of sheep) contained and assist in their movement from one area to another and working dogs which is a fairly generic term for those dogs which have very specific ‘jobs’ such as pulling sleds or transporting people. Although these are the most common groups of dog there are actually many more
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