The Best Dog Breeds web page is a compilation of data across the world wide web with the main focus on finding the best breed of dogs based upon their versatility and breed specific traits.

As I stated previously – I like dogs, nevertheless I always was impressed by the ones that are very well rounded, very effective at performing nearly any task and that also easily adapt to virtually any circumstances. I happen to be an active individual and I can’t see myself just sitting in front of the TV, petting through out the day a companion dog, perhaps teaching him several tricks and walk him – or her, few minutes daily. Versatility is a very important factor in a dog’s traits in my opinion.

In my effort to establish this ranking system I considered for versatility their ability to perform a multitude of tasks. When it comes to the specific traits I considered their intelligence, breed desire to work and please their owners, companionship, easiness of training, confidence, ability to work under stress, obedience, docility, agility, courage, adaptation to the environment they live in, care and health issues and a number of other factors.

Rottweilers, one of the best dog breeds. In the picture above – Prince Djuke Von Evman aka Bruiser. Owners: Debra (the BOSS) and Pat Nesbitt from Lumby, BC, Canada. Thank you guys for letting me share the picture of your wonderful “son” !

In order to find the best dog breeds out there, one really has to first look into what dog breeds groups we have. It is very obvious that the most versatile dog breeds are those from the Working Dogs Breeds Group so my focus to determine the best dog breeds will be on this particular group. My argument is backed up by the fact that all dogs in the Working Dogs Breeds Group are excellent companions, herding and hunting dogs, watchdogs and protection dogs and all of them are good with children. They top the charts in obedience, tracking and agility trials and in search and rescue, therapy, drugs detection, police and military work. Because of their versatility, these breeds can easily do the jobs of the dogs from the other Dogs Breeds Groups while the reciprocal is not valid. After all you can’t expect a Chihuahua to herd cattle or to protect you. He might be an excellent watchdog and a companion dog but his versatility ends about there.

After many months of research and debates with experts in this field I narrowed down the breeds worth considered for this ranking. I am very confident that my ranking will stir lots of debates, controversy and animosity among German Sheperds and Malinois owners but before they get into it I kindly ask them to Google the “Schutzhund” word and than read the description given by Wikipedia for it.

The Wikipedia states clearly that, I quote – “The German Shepherd was developed from working herding dogs around 1900 as an all-around working dog. Within a few years it was clear that the dogs were losing their working ability.”

This statement is valid for all the breeds ever used in the sport of Schutzhund. It is very obvious that nowadays we have within the same breed two different bloodlines – a working bloodline and a conformation bloodline which in my humbled opinion is detrimental to everybody – owners and dogs. All of us – working dog owners, should
focus in bringing back the all around working dog – working and conformation bloodlines.

All this being said, Schutzhund was founded around 1900 as a test of working capacity for German Shepherds. Only German Shepherds that had successfully passed a Schutzhund test and even a herding examination were permitted to breed and thus have their offspring recorded as German Shepherd Dogs. This is true in Germany even  today. It is exclusively by testing the working ability of each generation that these compelling working characteristics of the GSD were being looked after. Dogs of all breeds, even mixes, can certainly compete in Schutzhund presently, however the most popular breeds usually are German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, Boxers, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Cane Corso, Giant Schnauzers, Bouvier des Flandres, Dutch Shepherd Dogs, Beaucerons, American Bulldogs, Black Russian Terriers, Airedale Terriers,  and Australian Cattle Dogs.

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