Dog breeds: find independent dog breeds
Discover our list of independent dog breeds. These breeds are perfect for people who don't necessarily want a dog following them everywhere around the house.
- Affenpinscher
- Afghan Hound
- Airedale Terrier
- Akita Inu
- Alaskan Malamute
- American Akita
- American Foxhound
- American Staffordshire Terrier
- Anatolian Shepherd
- Ariege Pointing Dog
- Ariegeois
- Artois Hound
- Atlas Mountain Dog (Aidi)
- Australian Kelpie
- Australian Terrier
- Austrian Black and Tan Hound
- Austrian Pinscher
- Azawakh
- Basenji
- Basset Hound
- Bavarian Mountain Scent Hound
- Beagle
- Bearded Collie
- Bedlington Terrier
- Bergamasco Shepherd Dog
- Billy
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Bloodhound
- Blue Gascony
- Boerboel
- Bohemian Wire-haired Pointing Griffon
- Borador
- Border Terrier
- Borzoï
- Bosnian Broken-haired Hound
- Bouvier des Flandres
- Bracco Italiano (Italian Pointing dog)
- Brazilian Terrier
- Briard
- Briquet Griffon Vendeen
- Brittany
- Burgos Pointing Dog
- Canaan Dog
- Canarian Warren Hound
- Cane Corso
- Castro Laboreiro Dog
- Catalan Sheepdog
- Caucasian Shepherd Dog
- Central Asia Shepherd Dog
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever
- Chow Chow
- Cirneco Dell'Etna
- Clumber Spaniel
- Coarse-haired Styrian Hound
- Curly-Coated Retriever
- Cursinu
- Czechoslovakian Wolfdog
- Dachshund
- Dandie Dinmont Terrier
- Deerhound
- Deutsch Langhaar
- Drentsche Partridge Dog
- Drever
- Dunker
- Dutch Schapendoes
- Dutch Smoushond
- East Siberian Laika
- English Foxhound
- English Pointer
- Estrela Mountain Dog
- Eurasier
- Fawn Brittany Griffon
- Fila Brasileiro
- Finnish Hound
- Finnish Lapponian Dog
- Finnish Spitz
- Fox Terrier
- French Spaniel
- French Tricolour Hound
- French White & Black Hound
- French White & Orange Hound
- Frisian Water Dog
- German Hound
- German Hunting Terrier
- 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
- Greek Harehound
- Greenland Dog
- Griffon Nivernais
- Halden Hound
- Hanoverian Scent Hound
- Hokkaido
- Hovawart
- Hungarian Hound - Transylvanian Scent Hound
- Husky
- Hygen Hound
- Ibizan Podenco
- 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 Spinone
- Italian Volpino
- Jack Russell Terrier
- Jämthund
- Kai Ken
- Karelian Bear Dog
- Karst Shepherd Dog
- Kerry Blue Terrier
- Kishu
- Kleiner Münsterländer
- Komondor
- Korea Jindo Dog
- Kromfohrländer
- Kuvasz
- Labradoodle
- Lagotto Romagnolo
- Lakeland Terrier
- Landseer
- Lapponian Herder
- Leonberger
- Lhasa Apso
- Majorca Mastiff
- Manchester Terrier
- Maremma and the Abruzzes Sheepdog
- Mastiff
- Medium-sized Anglo-French Hound
- Montenegrin Mountain Hound
- Neapolitan Mastiff
- Norrbottenspitz
- Norwegian Buhund
- Norwegian Elkhound Grey
- Norwegian Lundehund
- Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
- Old Danish Pointing Dog
- Old English Sheepdog
- Otterhound
- Parson Russell Terrier
- Pekingese
- Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen
- Pharaoh Hound
- Picardy Spaniel
- Pinscher
- Poitevin
- Polish Greyhound
- Polish Hound
- Polish Hunting Dog
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Pomchi
- Pont-Audemer Spaniel
- Porcelaine
- Portuguese Sheepdog
- Portuguese Warren Hound
- Portuguese Water Dog
- Posavatz Hound
- Presa Canario (Canary Mastiff)
- Pudelpointer
- Puli
- Pumi
- Pyrenean Mastiff
- Pyrenean Mountain Dog
- Rafeiro of Alentejo
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
- Rottweiler
- Russian Black Terrier
- 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
- Shiba Inu
- Shih Tzu
- Shikoku
- Skye Terrier
- Sloughi
- Slovakian Chuvach
- Slovakian Hound
- Smålandsstövare
- Small Swiss Hound
- South Russian Shepherd Dog
- Spanish Hound
- Spanish Mastiff
- Spanish Water Dog
- St. Bernard
- Stabijhoun
- Sussex Spaniel
- Swiss Hound
- Taiwan Dog
- Tatra Shepherd Dog
- Tibetan Mastiff
- Tibetan Spaniel
- Tosa
- Tyrolean Hound
- Welsh Springer Spaniel
- Welsh Terrier
- West Highland White Terrier
- West Siberian Laika
- Wire-haired Pointing Griffon Korthals
- Wirehaired Slovakian Pointer
- Yorkshire Terrier
- Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog