Small Dog Breeds
Small dogs cost less to feed, fit more homes and travel more easily — and they are emphatically still dogs, with the same needs for training, exercise and boundaries as anything four times their weight. Their main vulnerability is being treated as an accessory rather than a dog, which is where the barking and nipping stereotypes come from.
32 breeds in our library match
How we picked these: breeds our profiles classify as small. The list is generated from our own breed ratings rather than hand-picked, and refreshes whenever we update a breed profile — so any breed we have not rated yet simply is not shown.
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French Bulldog
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Dachshund
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Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
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Beagle
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Yorkshire Terrier
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Shih Tzu
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Miniature Schnauzer
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Pomeranian
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Jack Russell Terrier
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Pembroke Welsh Corgi
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Chihuahua
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Pug
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Boston Terrier
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Shetland Sheepdog
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West Highland White Terrier
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Maltese
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Bichon Frise
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Shiba Inu
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Havanese
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Scottish Terrier
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Papillon
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Lhasa Apso
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Cairn Terrier
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Italian Greyhound
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Pekingese
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Cardigan Welsh Corgi
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Miniature Pinscher
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Chinese Crested
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Brussels Griffon
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Basenji
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Japanese Chin
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Schipperke
Browse by another trait
- Low-shedding 36 breeds
- Small & low-shedding 19 breeds
- Apartment-friendly 38 breeds
- Good with kids 71 breeds
- Good with cats 30 breeds
- Family dogs 23 breeds
- Easy to train 47 breeds
- Good first dogs 9 breeds
- Quiet breeds 29 breeds
- Low grooming 30 breeds
- High energy 53 breeds
- Calm & low energy 15 breeds
- Large dogs 28 breeds
- Giant dogs 8 breeds
- Longest-living 39 breeds
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