Meet The Miscellaneous And FSS Working Breeds

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294 – June, 2023

By Caroline Coile

The Working group currently includes 31 breeds. Two more future Working breeds–the Danish-Swedish Farmdog and the Kai Ken–are currently in the Miscellaneous Class, and will probably join the Working group within a few years, eventually bringing it to 33 breeds. The Foundation Stock Service breeds include 19 more that may or may not eventually join the Working group. If that were to ever happen, the Working group would (once again) be amongst AKC’s largest, with 52 (!) breeds (assuming all succeeded in becoming bonafide breeds, and no more FSS breeds joined). And once again the call to split the groups would become more vocal.

Of the Miscellaneous and FSS breeds, they break down like this:

MASTIFF-TYPE BREEDS

Eleven of the breeds-in-waiting are mastiff-type dogs:

• Broholmer: This large Mastiff-like dog hails from Denmark, where it was known as early as the late 1800s as “the butcher’s dog.” It was used as a home guardian, cattle herder and cattle guard. The breed’s name comes from the Count Sehested of Broholm, a proponent of the breed in the late 1800s. It is calm, confident and good-natured.

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