What do the dog work?

Answer 1

It depends on the breed of the dog. Most dogs are trained to work with sheep, cattle, goats, and or other herding type animals. A person will train the dog to aid them, when moving a herd or flock from one place to another.

Some dogs where simply used to protect a flock. The Great Pyrenees, Komondor, Kuvasz, Anatolian Shepard, are all examples of dogs that lived with other animals and protected them from predators.

Many small dogs were considered working dogs. Terriers were often kept for rodent control. The Dachshund was breed to hunt badgers. The Cairn terriers where bred to hunt rodents that lived in cairns. Cairns are large rock piles.

Modern dogs now also work by guiding blind people, and helping with hearing impaired persons. There are also dogs that help detect cancer in people. There are a number of other disabilities that dog now help with. They have also been trained to find either live or dead people. There are search and rescue dogs, that are used to find someone that is lost in the wilderness, or some dogs are used to locate people that are trapped in buildings after earthquakes.

I believe that all dogs are happier when they have some type of work to do.