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  1. 1AzawakhAzawakhAmong the Tuareg, Fula and other peoples of the Sahel, the Azawakh is first a guard of the camp and only second a hunter of hare and gazelle, which explains its reserve with strangers and its intense bond with its own household. It stays scarce outside West Africa because the European and American…0i
  2. 2Norwegian LundehundNorwegian LundehundSix toes on each foot, ears that fold shut and a neck that bends back towards the spine: every oddity of the Lundehund was shaped by centuries of scrambling into cliff crevices after puffins on Norway's coast. When puffin hunting died out the job went with it, and distemper outbreaks around the…0i
  3. 3MudiMudiHungarian drovers called it the driver dog, and the Mudi still moves cattle and sheep with a bossy, quick-footed style quite unlike its corded relative the Puli. It was only separated from the Puli and Pumi as a breed in the 1930s, then lost heavily in the Second World War before the FCI accepted…0i
  4. 4Bergamasco Shepherd DogBergamasco Shepherd DogThe Bergamasco's coat is its working kit: felted flocks across the hindquarters that took shape for Alpine weather, slow to form and never meant to be brushed out. The breed followed sheep on transhumance routes through northern Italy until war and the decline of seasonal droving took its job away,…0i
  5. 5StabyhounStabyhounFriesland's all-purpose farm dog pointed and retrieved birds, caught moles and rats and guarded the yard, and the Dutch still treat it as a national treasure. Only a few thousand exist worldwide, and the Dutch clubs keep it that way deliberately: breed advisors approve pairings, stud dogs are…0i
  6. 6Drentse PatrijshondDrentse PatrijshondDrenthe's partridge dog descends from the spaniel-type bird dogs that reached the Netherlands in the 16th century, and it still points, flushes and retrieves on land and in water. Around 5,000 dogs are registered with the Dutch breed club, a respectable base that thins out quickly abroad; in the…0i
  7. 7KromfohrländerKromfohrländerFew breeds can name their founder: a stray called Peter, taken in near Hilchenbach in 1945 by Ilse Schleifenbaum, whose chance litter with a neighbour's terrier-type bitch was so uniform that a breed grew from it and was recognised by the FCI in 1955. That tiny origin is also its problem. Germany…0i
  8. 8Cesky TerrierCesky TerrierCzech breeder František Horák crossed a Sealyham with a Scottish Terrier in 1948 to make a lighter hunting terrier for the Bohemian forests, then fixed the type before the FCI accepted it in 1963. That deliberate, documented origin makes it a fascinating case study, but the breed spent its first…0i
  9. 9Berger PicardBerger PicardThe Picardy shepherd lived on farms in north-eastern France, the ground where the Somme battles were fought, and both world wars came close to finishing it. Numbers are still modest: roughly 3,500 in France and a few hundred across the United States and Canada, where the AKC recognised it in 2015.…0i
  10. 10Barbet (dog breed)Barbet (dog breed)Muddy as a barbet was a French saying for good reason: this bearded water dog spent its working life retrieving ducks from marshes and estuaries. It nearly vanished after the Second World War, and the 1970s revival leaned on Standard Poodles and other breeds, so pedigrees differ in how much poodle…0i