The bulldog originated in England centuries ago where it was used to guard property, to drive cattle, and in barbaric blood sports.
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The American hairless terrier came into existence when a hairless female puppy named Josephine was born in a litter of purebred rat terriers.
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The Alaskan malamute is a sled dog breed that's believed to have descended from wolf-dogs of thousands of years ago.
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Despite its name, the American Eskimo dog was created not by indigenous people but by German immigrants to the U.S. who brought their German spitz dogs with them in the early 1800s.
The Australian shepherd's name is a complete misnomer; the breed was developed in the United States, not Australia.
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The Boston terrier was created in—you guessed it—Boston, Massachusetts. A dog named Judge, who was a cross between a bulldog and the extinct white English terrier, was sold to a Boston man.
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The Boykin spaniel was developed in South Carolina around the turn of the 20th century by breeders who desired a fairly small dog with which to hunt turkeys from boats
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The Chesapeake Bay retriever was created in the region around the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary that reaches through Maryland and Virginia.
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A hardy dog breed developed in the South as an all-purpose farm and hunting dog, the Catahoula leopard dog is named for its place of origin: Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.
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In the 1930s, American breeders crossed smooth fox terriers with miniature pinschers and Italian greyhounds to create the toy fox terrier.
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