Sheep dog

For other uses, see Sheep dog (disambiguation).

An Old English Sheepdog

An Icelandic Sheepdog

A Welsh Sheepdog

A sheep dog, sheepdog, shepherd dog or simply shepherd is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These include livestock guardian dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock and herding dogs used to move, manage and control sheep and other livestock.

The Fédération Cynologique Internationale has grouped Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs) in Group 1.

List of herding breeds

Further information: Herding dog

Name	Origin	Recognition	Other Names	Image
Australian Cattle Dog	Australia	FCI
Australian Kelpie	Australia	FCI
Australian Shepherd	USA	FCI, AKC
Basque Shepherd Dog	France/Spain	RSCFRCE
Beauceron	France	FCI,
Belgian Shepherd Groenendael	Belgium	FCI, AKC
Belgian Shepherd Laekenois	Belgium	FCI, AKC
Belgian Shepherd Malinois	Belgium	FCI, AKC
Belgian Shepherd Tervuren	Belgium	FCI, AKC
Bearded Collie	UK	FCI, AKC
Bergamasco Shepherd	Italy	FCI,
Berger Blanc Suisse	Switzerland	FCI
Berger Picard	France	FCI
Border Collie	UK	FCI, AKC
Bouvier des Flandres	Belgium	FCI
Briard	France	FCI
Can de Chira	Spain
Can de Palleiro	Spain
Cão da Serra de Aires	Portugal
Carea Castellano Manchego
Carea Leonés	Spain	RSCFRCE
Catahoula Leopard Dog	USA	UKC, AKC
Catalan Sheepdog	Spain	FCI
Chiribaya Dog	Peru
Croatian Sheepdog	Croatia	FCI
Cumberland Sheepdog
Dutch Shepherd	Netherlands	FCI, AKC
English Shepherd	USA
Finnish Lapphund	Finland	FCI, AKC	Reindeer
Garafian Shepherd	Spain	RSCFRCE
German Shepherd	Germany	FCI, AKC
Gaucho sheepdog	Brazil	CBKC
Huntaway	New Zealand	NZKC
Icelandic Sheepdog	Iceland	FCI
Koolie	Australia
Komondor	Hungary	FCI, AKC
Lancashire Heeler	England	FCI
Lapponian Herder	Finland	FCI	Reindeer
McNab	USA
Miniature American Shepherd	USA	FCI, AKC
Mudi	Belgium
New Zealand Heading Dog	New Zealand
Norwegian Buhund	Norway	FCI
Old English Sheepdog	England	FCI, AKC
Pastore della Lessinia e del Lagorai	Italy
Patagonian Sheepdog	Chile	Kennel Club de Chile
Polish Lowland Sheepdog	Poland	FCI,
Puli dog	Hungary	FCI
Pumi	Hungary	FCI
Pyrenean Shepherd	France	FCI
Rough Collie	Scotland	FCI, AKC
Rottweiler	Germany	FCI, AKC
Slovak Cuvac	Slovakia	FCI
Smooth Collie	Scotland	FCI, AKC
Tornjak	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia	FCI
Schapendoes	Netherlands	FCI
Schipperke	Belgium	FCI, AKC
Shetland Sheepdog	Shetland Island (UK)	FCI, AKC
Small Međimurje Dog	Croatia	Croatian Kennel Club
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Swedish Lapphund	Sweden	FCI	Reindeer
Swedish Vallhund	Sweden	FCI, AKC	Cattle
Cardigan Welsh Corgi	England	FCI, AKC	Cattle
Pembroke Welsh Corgi	England	FCI, AKC	Cattle
Welsh Sheepdog	Wales

Livestock guardian dog breeds

Further information: Livestock guardian dog

• Aidi
• Akbash dog
• Aksaray Malaklisi
• Anatolian Shepherd
• Armenian Gampr
• Bakharwal dog
• Bucovina Shepherd
• Cão de Castro Laboreiro
• Cão de Gado Transmontano
• Carpathian Shepherd Dog
• Caucasian Shepherd Dog
• Central Asian Shepherd Dog
• Estrela Mountain Dog
• Georgian Shepherd
• Great Pyrenees
• Greek Shepherd
• Gurdbasar
• Himalayan Sheepdog
• Kangal Shepherd
• Karakachan
• Kars
• Karst Shepherd
• Komondor
• Koyun dog
• Kuchi
• Kuvasz
• Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog
• Mioritic Shepherd
• Persian Mastiff
• Polish Tatra Sheepdog
• Pshdar dog
• Pyrenean Mastiff
• Rafeiro do Alentejo
• Romanian Raven Shepherd Dog
• Sardinian Shepherd Dog
• Šarplaninac
• Slovak Cuvac
• Spanish Mastiff
• Tibetan kyi apso
• Tibetan Mastiff
• Tobet
• Tornjak
• Vikhan Sheepdog

See also

• Droving
• Guard llama
• Livestock guardian dog
• Sheepdog trial
• Dogs portal