Pastoral Group Breeds
The Kennel Club (UK) defines the Pastoral Group as including dog breeds originally kept for "working cattle, sheep, reindeer and other cloven footed animals".
Breeds included in The Kennel Club's Pastoral Group include:
- Anatolian Shepherd Dog
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Australian Shepherd
- Bearded Collie
- Belgian Shepherd Dog (Groenendael)
- Belgian Shepherd Dog (Laekenois)
- Belgian Shepherd Dog (Malinois)
- Belgian Shepherd Dog (Tervueren)
- Bergamasco
- Border Collie
- Briard
- Catalan Sheepdog
- Collie (Rough)
- Collie (Smooth)
- Estrela Mountain Dog (Cão da Serra da Estrela)
- Finnish Lapphund
- German Shepherd Dog (Alsatian)
- Hungarian Kuvasz
- Hungarian Puli
- Komondor
- Lancashire Heeler
- Maremma Sheepdog
- Norwegian Buhund
- Old English Sheepdog
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog
- Pyrenean Mountain Dog
- Pyrenean Shepherd
- Samoyed
- Shetland Sheepdog
- Swedish Lapphund
- Swedish Vallhund
- Welsh Corgi (Cardigan)
- Welsh Corgi (Pembroke)
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