Dog breeds: discover dogs that can stay alone
Discover our list of dog breeds that don't mind spending some time alone. These breeds are well suited to owners who work a lot or those who simply prefer to have an independent companion.
- Affenpinscher
- Afghan Hound
- Airedale Terrier
- Akita Inu
- American Staffordshire Terrier
- Anatolian Shepherd
- Ariege Pointing Dog
- Ariegeois
- Artois Hound
- Australian Terrier
- Austrian Black and Tan Hound
- Austrian Pinscher
- Azawakh
- Basset Fauve de Bretagne
- Basset Hound
- Bavarian Mountain Scent Hound
- Bearded Collie
- Bedlington Terrier
- Bergamasco Shepherd Dog
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Bloodhound
- Blue Gascony
- Boerboel
- Bohemian Wire-haired Pointing Griffon
- Bolognese
- Borador
- Border Terrier
- Borzoï
- Bosnian Broken-haired Hound
- Bouvier des Ardennes
- Bouvier des Flandres
- Brazilian Terrier
- Briard
- Briquet Griffon Vendeen
- Brittany
- Broholmer
- Burgos Pointing Dog
- Canaan Dog
- Canarian Warren Hound
- Castro Laboreiro Dog
- Catalan Sheepdog
- Caucasian Shepherd Dog
- Central Asia Shepherd Dog
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever
- Chihuahua
- Chow Chow
- Cirneco Dell'Etna
- Clumber Spaniel
- Coarse-haired Styrian Hound
- Cursinu
- Dachshund
- Dandie Dinmont Terrier
- Deerhound
- Deutsch Langhaar
- Drentsche Partridge Dog
- Drever
- Dunker
- Dutch Schapendoes
- Dutch Smoushond
- East Siberian Laika
- English Pointer
- English Toy Terrier (Black & Tan)
- Estrela Mountain Dog
- Eurasier
- Fawn Brittany Griffon
- Fila Brasileiro
- Finnish Hound
- Finnish Spitz
- Fox Terrier
- French Spaniel
- Frisian Water Dog
- German Hound
- German Hunting Terrier
- German Shepherd
- German Shorthaired Pointer
- German Spaniel
- German Wirehaired Pointing Dog
- 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 Swiss Mountain Dog
- Greek Harehound
- Greenland Dog
- Greyhound
- Griffon Belge
- Griffon Bruxellois
- Halden Hound
- Hanoverian Scent Hound
- Havanese
- Hokkaido
- Hovawart
- Hungarian Hound - Transylvanian Scent Hound
- Hungarian Vizsla
- Ibizan Podenco
- Irish Glen of Imaal Terrier
- Irish Red and White Setter
- Irish Red Setter
- Irish Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
- Irish Terrier
- Irish Water Spaniel
- Istrian Short-haired Hound
- Istrian Wire-haired Hound
- Italian Sighthound
- Italian Spinone
- Italian Volpino
- Jack Russell Terrier
- Jämthund
- Japanese Spitz
- Kai Ken
- Karelian Bear Dog
- Karst Shepherd Dog
- Kerry Blue Terrier
- King Charles Spaniel
- Kishu
- Kleiner Münsterländer
- Komondor
- Korea Jindo Dog
- Kromfohrländer
- Kuvasz
- Labradoodle
- Labrador
- Lagotto Romagnolo
- Lakeland Terrier
- Landseer
- Large Munsterlander
- Leonberger
- Lhasa Apso
- Little Lion Dog
- Majorca Mastiff
- Majorca Shepherd Dog
- Manchester Terrier
- Montenegrin Mountain Hound
- Norrbottenspitz
- Norwegian Elkhound Grey
- Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
- Old English Sheepdog
- Otterhound
- Pekingese
- Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen
- Petit Brabançon
- Pharaoh Hound
- Picardy Sheepdog
- Picardy Spaniel
- Pinscher
- Polish Greyhound
- Polish Hound
- Polish Hunting Dog
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Pomchi
- Pomeranian or miniature Spitz
- Pont-Audemer Spaniel
- Portuguese Pointing Dog
- Portuguese Sheepdog
- Portuguese Water Dog
- Posavatz Hound
- Presa Canario (Canary Mastiff)
- Puli
- Pumi
- Pyrenean Mastiff
- Pyrenean Mountain Dog
- Pyrenean Sheepdog
- Rafeiro of Alentejo
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
- Rottweiler
- Russian Black Terrier
- Russian-European Laika
- Saint Germain Pointer
- Saint Miguel Cattle Dog
- 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 Swiss Hound
- South Russian Shepherd Dog
- Spanish Greyhound
- Spanish Hound
- Spanish Mastiff
- Spanish Water Dog
- Swiss Hound
- Taiwan Dog
- Tatra Shepherd Dog
- Tibetan Mastiff
- Tibetan Spaniel
- Tosa
- Tyrolean Hound
- West Highland White Terrier
- West Siberian Laika
- Whippet
- Wire-haired Pointing Griffon Korthals
- Wirehaired Slovakian Pointer
- Yorkshire Terrier
- Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog