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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