# The word Dog. First Breed to come to mind. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855 "2010-02-21T06:13:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/1 "2010-02-21T06:13:49Z")
What do you think personifies the word Dog. Do you think of the German Shepard? Yorkshire Terrier? Something that looks like the wolf or dingo? Personally I usually think of something that resembles the border collie. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/2 "2010-02-21T06:17:08Z")
Mutts come to mind first. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/3 "2010-02-21T06:45:52Z")
Scottish terriers. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/4 "2010-02-21T06:52:09Z")
I think in general I think of labs/retrievers. But this particular time, I thought of a pug. No clue why. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/5 "2010-02-21T06:52:41Z")
First one I thought of was German Shepard. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/6 "2010-02-21T07:14:03Z")
Kelpies ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/7 "2010-02-21T07:20:56Z")
My big standard poodle now personifies dogness to me. He is the archetype of dog. ---
**Author:** ![StrangeBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@StrangeBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrangeBird)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/8 "2010-02-21T07:29:50Z")
Irish Setter (that’s the kind I had growing up) ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/9 "2010-02-21T07:32:38Z")
Golden retriever. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/10 "2010-02-21T07:36:45Z")
I think it’s weird because I had a minpin for 10 years since she was a pup and till the day she died, but when the word dog is mentioned I don’t think of minpin as the first breed to come to mind. I always thought of dogs to be big, somewhat furry and with a muzzle not the short nosed breeds. we have such a diverse set of breeds being mentioned too. Some I don’t even know what they look like. Perhaps I should’ve mentioned to link the picture to the breed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/11 "2010-02-21T07:59:19Z")
Golden Retriever. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/12 "2010-02-21T08:29:03Z")
Golden Lab. ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/13 "2010-02-21T08:34:59Z")
[Keeshond](http://www.astarz.com/). But that’s because we have one. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/14 "2010-02-21T10:20:44Z")
Dachshund: same reason as Shinna Minna Ma. Otherwise, a mutt that somewhat resembles a Lab with brown fur. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/15 "2010-02-21T12:33:42Z")
I think of a Lab because that’s the kind of dog I have now. When I had golden retrievers, that would have been the first breed to spring to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/16 "2010-02-21T13:44:08Z")
I think Mutt. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/17 "2010-02-21T13:47:43Z")
“The word Dog. First Breed to come to mind.” Puppies ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/18 "2010-02-21T14:26:32Z")
Irish setter. My next-door neighbor had many of them while I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/19 "2010-02-21T14:42:23Z")
Mutt. Happy, wagging, bouncing mutt. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855/20 "2010-02-21T15:23:46Z")
Spaniel, cos we had them growing up, probably. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-dog-first-breed-to-come-to-mind/529855.md?page=2)