Dog breeds: find energetic and active dog breeds
Discover our selection of active dog breeds. If you're looking for a dog that will happily come along on your morning jogs or long hikes, these are the breeds for you!
- Affenpinscher
- Afghan Hound
- Airedale Terrier
- Akita Inu
- Alaskan Malamute
- Alpine Dachsbracke
- American Akita
- American Bulldog
- American Cocker Spaniel
- American Foxhound
- American Staffordshire Terrier
- American Water Spaniel
- Anatolian Shepherd
- Appenzell Cattle Dog
- Ariege Pointing Dog
- Ariegeois
- Artois Hound
- Atlas Mountain Dog (Aidi)
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Australian Kelpie
- Australian Shepherd
- Australian Silky Terrier
- Australian Terrier
- Austrian Black and Tan Hound
- Austrian Pinscher
- Auvergne Pointer
- Azawakh
- Basenji
- Basset Fauve de Bretagne
- Basset Hound
- Bavarian Mountain Scent Hound
- Beagle
- Beagle Harrier
- Bearded Collie
- Bedlington Terrier
- Belgian Shepherd
- Bergamasco Shepherd Dog
- Bernese Mountain Dog
- Billy
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Bloodhound
- Blue Gascony
- Blue Picardy Spaniel
- Boerboel
- Bohemian Wire-haired Pointing Griffon
- Borador
- Border Collie
- Border Terrier
- Borzoï
- Bosnian Broken-haired Hound
- Boston Terrier
- Bourbonnais Pointing Dog
- Bouvier des Ardennes
- Bouvier des Flandres
- Boxer
- Bracco Italiano (Italian Pointing dog)
- Brazilian Terrier
- Briard
- Briquet Griffon Vendeen
- Brittany
- Broholmer
- Bull Terrier
- Bullmastiff
- Burgos Pointing Dog
- Cairn Terrier
- Canaan Dog
- Canarian Warren Hound
- Cane Corso
- Castro Laboreiro Dog
- Catalan Sheepdog
- Caucasian Shepherd Dog
- Cavachon
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
- Central Asia Shepherd Dog
- Cesky Terrier
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever
- Chihuahua
- Cirneco Dell'Etna
- Coarse-haired Styrian Hound
- Cocker Spaniel
- Collie Smooth
- Coton de Tulear
- Croatian Shepherd Dog
- Curly-Coated Retriever
- Cursinu
- Czechoslovakian Wolfdog
- Dachshund
- Dalmatian
- Dandie Dinmont Terrier
- Deerhound
- Deutsch Langhaar
- Dobermann
- Dogue de Bordeaux
- Drentsche Partridge Dog
- Drever
- Dunker
- Dutch Schapendoes
- Dutch Shepherd
- Dutch Smoushond
- East Siberian Laika
- English Foxhound
- English Pointer
- English Setter
- English Springer Spaniel
- English Toy Terrier (Black & Tan)
- Entlebuch Cattle Dog
- Estrela Mountain Dog
- Eurasier
- Fawn Brittany Griffon
- Field Spaniel
- Fila Brasileiro
- Finnish Hound
- Finnish Lapponian Dog
- Finnish Spitz
- Flat-Coated Retriever
- Fox Terrier
- French Bulldog
- French Pointing Dog
- French Spaniel
- French Tricolour Hound
- French Water Dog
- French White & Black Hound
- French White & Orange Hound
- Frisian Water Dog
- Gascon Saintongeois
- German Hound
- German Hunting Terrier
- German Shepherd
- German Shorthaired Pointer
- German Spaniel
- German Wirehaired Pointing Dog
- Golden Retriever
- Gordon Setter
- Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen
- Grand Griffon Vendeen
- Great Anglo-French Tricolour Hound
- Great Anglo-French White & Black Hound
- Great Anglo-French White & Orange Hound
- Great Dane
- Great Swiss Mountain Dog
- Greek Harehound
- Greenland Dog
- Greyhound
- Griffon Belge
- Griffon Bruxellois
- Griffon Nivernais
- Halden Hound
- Hamiltonstövare
- Hanoverian Scent Hound
- Harrier
- Hokkaido
- Hovawart
- Hungarian Greyhound
- Hungarian Hound - Transylvanian Scent Hound
- Hungarian Vizsla
- Husky
- Hygen Hound
- Ibizan Podenco
- Icelandic Sheepdog
- Irish Glen of Imaal Terrier
- Irish Red and White Setter
- Irish Red Setter
- Irish Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
- Irish Terrier
- Irish Water Spaniel
- Irish Wolfhound
- Istrian Short-haired Hound
- Istrian Wire-haired Hound
- Italian Segugio
- Italian Sighthound
- Italian Spinone
- Italian Volpino
- Jack Russell Terrier
- Jämthund
- Japanese Spitz
- Japanese Terrier
- Kai Ken
- Karelian Bear Dog
- Karst Shepherd Dog
- Kerry Blue Terrier
- Kishu
- Kleiner Münsterländer
- Komondor
- Korea Jindo Dog
- Kromfohrländer
- Kuvasz
- Labradoodle
- Labrador
- Lagotto Romagnolo
- Lakeland Terrier
- Landseer
- Lapponian Herder
- Large Munsterlander
- Leonberger
- Little Lion Dog
- Majorca Mastiff
- Majorca Shepherd Dog
- Manchester Terrier
- Maremma and the Abruzzes Sheepdog
- Medium-sized Anglo-French Hound
- Montenegrin Mountain Hound
- Mudi
- Nederlandse Kooikerhondje
- Newfoundland
- Norfolk Terrier and Norwich Terrier
- Norman Artesien Basset
- Norrbottenspitz
- Norwegian Buhund
- Norwegian Elkhound Grey
- Norwegian Lundehund
- Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
- Old Danish Pointing Dog
- Old English Sheepdog
- Otterhound
- Papillon (Continental Toy Spaniel)
- Parson Russell Terrier
- Peruvian Hairless Dog
- Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen
- Pharaoh Hound
- Picardy Sheepdog
- Pinscher
- Poitevin
- Polish Greyhound
- Polish Hound
- Polish Hunting Dog
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Pomchi
- Pomeranian or miniature Spitz
- Pomsky
- Pont-Audemer Spaniel
- Poodle
- Porcelaine
- Portuguese Pointing Dog
- Portuguese Sheepdog
- Portuguese Warren Hound
- Portuguese Water Dog
- Posavatz Hound
- Presa Canario (Canary Mastiff)
- Pudelpointer
- Puli
- Pumi
- Pyrenean Mastiff
- Pyrenean Mountain Dog
- Pyrenean Sheepdog
- Rafeiro of Alentejo
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
- Rottweiler
- Rough Collie
- Russian Black Terrier
- Russian Toy
- Russian-European Laika
- Saarloos Wolfhound
- Saint Germain Pointer
- Saint Miguel Cattle Dog
- Saluki
- Samoyed
- Schillerstövare
- Schipperke
- Schnauzer
- Scottish Terrier
- Sealyham Terrier
- Serbian Hound
- Serbian Tricolour Hound
- Shar Pei
- Shetland Sheepdog
- Shiba Inu
- Shih Tzu
- Shikoku
- Skye Terrier
- Sloughi
- Slovakian Chuvach
- Slovakian Hound
- Smålandsstövare
- Small Gascon Saintongeois
- Small Swiss Hound
- South Russian Shepherd Dog
- Spanish Greyhound
- Spanish Hound
- Spanish Mastiff
- Spanish Water Dog
- St. Bernard
- Stabijhoun
- Staffordshire Bull Terrier
- Sussex Spaniel
- Swedish Lapphund
- Swedish Vallhund
- Swiss Hound
- Taiwan Dog
- Tatra Shepherd Dog
- Thai Ridgeback Dog
- Tibetan Spaniel
- Tibetan Terrier
- Tosa
- Tyrolean Hound
- Weimaraner
- Welsh Corgi
- Welsh Springer Spaniel
- Welsh Terrier
- West Highland White Terrier
- West Siberian Laika
- Westphalian Dachsbracke
- Whippet
- White Swiss Shepherd Dog
- Wire-haired Pointing Griffon Korthals
- Wirehaired Slovakian Pointer
- Xoloitzcuintle