Dog (Shade)

Dogs on Shade are good and waggy doggies.

• Dogs are found across Shade including on Dor Roc.
• Subspecies of wolf
• No special interaction with foxes, other than some being bred to hunt them
• No breeds but functions. A herder is by definition a dog bred for herding.
  • Herder/shepherd
    • Bred for intelligence and herding behaviour. Generally erect ears, slightly low back end, agile, intense 'eye'
  • Stalker/setter
    • Silent scent hunters. Bred to 'set', point, flush, etc when prey is encountered (depending on local hunting preferences)
  • Courser
    • As you'd expect, greyhoundy
  • Retriever
    • Strong swimmers, soft-mouthed, bred to fetch
  • (Hunting) hound
    • Large, high-endurance sight-hunters, typically rough-coated
  • Guard dog
    • Often double as family pets and come in variety of shapes (often working dog puppies less suited to task will be given away as pet/guard dogs)
  • Terrier
    • Small and tenacious, uniquely crafted for getting things out of burrows and shaking them to death
  • War dog
    • Mastiffs of the Pugnaces Britanniae sort - see [1]
  • etc