Mountain dog

Not to be confused with Dog Mountain.

A Polish Tatra Sheepdog

Mountain dog is a generic form of dog, a group of similar or related dog breeds or landraces typically from mountain environs of central Eurasia.

They are often a working dog, particularly a livestock or flock guardian or farm dog. By and large, these dogs tend to have a claimed Molosser dog in their genetic heritage. Most have a double coat.

Groupings

• FCI Pinscher and Schnauzer, Molossoid and Swiss Mountain Dog Group is a designation used only by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale
• Swiss mountain dog or Sennenhund — called Swiss Mountain Dogs or Swiss Cattle Dogs — are farm dogs

Specific breeds or landraces

• Turkish Akbash Dog
• Alpine Mastiff an extinct breed and progenitor of the St. Bernard, among other Mountain dog breeds. Also known as Barry Dog and Saint Dog.
• Anatolian Shepherd Dog, Turkey
• Armenian mountain dog, alternative names being the Armenian Gampr and Armenian wolfhound. An alleged prototypical source of dog genetics and a landrace, not just a breed.
• Appenzeller Sennenhund (redirect from Appenzell Mountain Dog) is a medium-size breed of dog, one of the four Schnauzer-Molossoid breeds- Swiss Mountain and Cattle Dogs
• Bernese Mountain Dog called in Swiss German the Berner Sennenhund, a large breed of dog, one of the four breeds of Sennenhund. Circa 1879 this breed almost went extinct with only 10 left in the world. Luckily a Swiss farmer cared for them and now they are no longer endangered.
• Bucovina Shepherd Dog
• Cão de Gado Transmontano, aka Transmontano Mastiff, is a large molosser working dog breed, originating in Portugal.
• Carpathian Shepherd Dog
• Caucasian Shepherd Dog (redirect from Caucasian Mountain Dog) (Georgian კავკასიური ნაგაზი "Kavkasiuri nagazi"),
• Central Asian Shepherd Dog
• Entlebucher Mountain Dog or Entlebucher Sennenhund is the smallest of the four Sennenhunds in Switzerland, recognized by the American Kennel Club on January 26, 2011.
• Estrela Mountain Dog is a breed of dog that has been used to guard herds and homesteads in the Estrela Mountains of Portugal
• Gaddi Kutta is a Mastiff-type dog found in northern India, the Himalayas region (Himachal Pradesh). They are also called the Indian Panther Hound, as well as Mahidant Mastiff. It is a multipurpose hunting dog, flock guardian and herding dog, and is reputed to be strong enough to repulse attacks by snow leopards.
• Georgian Shepherd Large and powerful Guard dog, ancient working dog.
• Great Cambrian Shepherd Dog (Bugailgi Mawr Cymreig), a designer dog — combined Stock Guard/Herding breed developed in Cymru/Wales, ancestry; Pyrenean Mountain Dog and Welsh Sheepdog (Ci Defaid Cymreig).
• Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund or Grand Bouvier Suisse is a dog breed which was developed in the Swiss Alps
• Great Pyrenees or Pyrenean Mountain Dog is a large breed of dog, used as a livestock guardian dog
• Greek Shepherd a/k/a Hellenikos Poimenikos or Greek Sheepdog
• Himalayan Sheepdog or Bhote kukur, a rare breed from Nepal.
• Hovawart, included per F.C.I.
• Karakachan Dog
• Karst Shepherd
• Kuchi (dog) originating in Afghanistan, some of which are said to be in a "Mountain" form
• Kumaon Mastiff or Indian Sindh Mastiff is an endangered breed
• Kuvasz
• Leonberger, a cross between an Alpine Mastiff, a Landseer Newfoundland and a Great Pyrenees. Flock guard, carting and water rescue dogs, that generally do not drool despite their large size.
• Maremma Sheepdog, an Italian flock guard dog
• Moscow Watchdog
• Moscow Water Dog, an extinct lifesaving dog, which was a biter due to genetic heritage.
• Newfoundland (dog) and Landseer (treated separately by the F.C.I.)
• Polish Tatra Sheepdog
• Pyrenean Mastiff
• Rafeiro do Alentejo
• Cão de Gado Transmontano
• Cão de Castro Laboreiro
• Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog is a large breed of livestock guardian dog that originated in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
• Russian tracker extinct dog breed of the Caucasus, precursor to the Golden Retriever
• Šarplaninac (redirect from Sharr Mountain Dog) Yugoslav Shepherd or Illyrian Shepherd Dog, is an ancient livestock guarding dog breed from the Šar Mountains region in the Balkans.
• Slovak Cuvac
• South Russian Ovcharka, a large, long-haired white sheepdog
• Spanish Mastiff
• St. Bernard a very large breed of working dog from the Italian and Swiss Alps, originally bred as a Search and rescue dog.
• St. John's water dog, a/k/a Lesser Newfoundland, an extinct precursor of the Newfoundland; ancestor of the modern Retrievers: including Flat-Coated, Chesapeake Bay, Golden, and Labrador.
• Tibetan Mastiff
• Tornjak (redirect from Bosnian mountain dog) is a mountain sheep dog native to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

See also

• Aidi or Atlas Mountain Dog, a flock guard dog from Morocco
• Formosan Mountain Dog
• Japanese wolf, sometimes called "mountain dog" — nihongo yamainu (ヤマイヌ（豺、犲、山犬）) — in Japanese
• Molosser
• Montenegrin Mountain Hound or Yugoslavian Mountain Hound