What dog breeds are popular around you?

Lots of Australian Shepherds and German Shepherds around here. Rottweilers are still popular.

I don’t see many small dogs.

I live in the city, there’s a large small-dog bias (another funny phrase, you may laugh now!).

I love German Shepherds, though. I have one staying with me next week.

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Ones that don’t fart (oh my god Oliver!) I wonder if breathing in dog farts can harm your lungs?

There are all sorts of dogs in this area. We have big properties so there are all sorts. Great Danes, Poodles (small and very large), Dobermans, and I do see people walking little dogs too. There are so many dogs in the area.

Little poodles and standard poodles are somewhat common around here. I love the standard poodles. People think they’re sha-sha fancy dogs but in fact they’re athletic and sporty.

I see a lot of pitties, puggles, and poodle mixes. Seems like the letter “P” is well represented.

@Call_Me_Jay: Standard Poodles are still, in my mind one of the best all-around breeds there are. Relatively few breed-specific medical issues, very intelligent, hardy, affectionate, excellent guardians, the whole package. I really should get me one of those someday. :-)

I live in an upscale neighborhood that almost every house has a dog or two. There is a wide variety of pooches. Half are rescue mutts the other half are pedigrees of all sorts but the one breed I see the most are Yorkies of all colors and hair ribbons. No real surprise there.

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Bulldogs
Corgis

Whenever I get Carstairs to ”release the hounds” a pack of german sheperds will be snacking at your heels

Piutbulls.

Hard to tell. The ones I see running lose most often are pits. That’s the best dog to have running lose in a neighborhood full of kids.

Pete the Pup (the dog with the circle on his eye in the Our Gang comedies) was a pit bull.

They were an extremely popular family dog 100 years ago, because they were great with kids, like Labs and Goldens today.

Sadly a lot of jerks have bred and “trained” (abused) them to become aggressive.

I’ve known a couple of very sweet pitties. I’ve also read of documented local cases of them horribly maiming or killing other dogs and people.

I thought you meant specifically me. So I was gonna say all dogs. Some of my friends call me the dog whisperer.

In our neighborhood/area, I would say Golden Retrievers are very popular, and poodle mixes.

In my area most common breeds are German Shepherd, Huskies, Pitbulls and Retrievers.

We’ve got BSL here, so no pitbulls or pit-crosses or anything that looks pittie. Shame, as they’re great dogs if they’ve got good owners (kind of like all dogs). We have a lot of rescue dogs around here. The latest trend is huskie/shepherd crosses – we’ve had about a half-dozen new ones arrive in the last two months. Lots of huskies/huskie crosses being brought down from northern reserves this year. For some reason we also seem to see Tibetan Terriers comparatively often (often for an uncommon breed).

@BellaB I had to Google BSL. It must not be a thing here or dog owners would be staging protests.

I also had to look up Tibetan Terriers. They make me think of a small version of Sam Sheepdog!

There are plenty of protests about the BSL (Breed Specific Legislation for those who don’t know it – I’m so used to it in dog park talk that I forget the long form) but the political will to bring it in was pretty strong. Any pit crosses coming down from the reserves have to be adopted out of province.