Filter
We remove breeds that break a strict condition: your size limit, young children, budget, and category 2 if you don't want the formalities.
Which dog breed suits you?
Answer 15 questions about your home, your time and your family. We show the breeds that fit, why they fit and what to watch for.
Based on sourced breed profiles Public method and sources We don't store your answers
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Home and family
Where will you live with the dog?
Any size limit?Building rules, landlord, car.
Are there children at home or visiting often? The youngest is…
Do you have, or plan to have, other pets?You can pick several.
Your time
Realistically, how much exercise can you give daily, even in bad weather?
What would you like to do together?
How many hours is the dog alone on a typical day?
Experience
What is your experience with dogs?
How should it behave with strangers?
How important is a quiet dog?Neighbours, thin walls.
Care
How much time per week do you have for coat care?
Hair and allergies
Climate and where it will live
Do fewer inherited health problems matter?
Budget
Monthly budget for the dogFood, vet, grooming.
Results are calculated in your browser. We don't store your answers.
Method
How we calculate
One algorithm for every breed: no sponsors, no promoted breeds.
Score
We compare each answer with the breed profile. Starred questions weigh more, and a critical mismatch caps the score at "partial match".
Explain
For every breed we show why it fits and what to watch for, in plain words.
| Weight | Questions |
|---|---|
| Critical | Home, experience, exercise time, children and other pets |
| Important | Hours alone, strangers, barking, grooming, allergies, budget, size |
| Useful | Preferred activity, climate, inherited health |
| A starred question weighs 1.5 times as much (up to 3 questions). |
Sources
The method and its limits rest on these works. Breed profiles carry their own sources on their pages.
- Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes (opens in a new tab)Limits: breed explains ~9% of behaviour
- Breed differences in canine aggression Breed differences exist (C-BARQ)
- Trainability and boldness traits differ between dog breed clusters based on conventional breed categories and genetic relatedness Trainability and boldness by breed group
- Breed differences of heritable behaviour traits in cats (opens in a new tab)Cat behaviour by breed, heritability 0.40–0.53
- Why did you choose this pet? Adopters and pet selection preferences in five animal shelters in the United States (opens in a new tab)Why we don't ask about looks
- Human and animal factors related to the relinquishment of dogs and cats in 12 selected animal shelters in the United States Choice of lifestyle questions
- Meet Your Match (Canine-ality, Feline-ality) (opens in a new tab)Precedent: adopter-matching survey
- Can f 1 levels in hair and homes of different dog breeds: lack of evidence to describe any dog breed as hypoallergenic (opens in a new tab)Allergy box (dogs)
- Impact of facial conformation on canine health: brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (opens in a new tab)Penalty for flat-faced breeds
- AAFP and ISFM Feline Environmental Needs Guidelines (opens in a new tab)Indoor cat needs: space, play
- OUG 55/2002 privind regimul de deținere al câinilor periculoși sau agresivi (opens in a new tab)Filter for category-2 breeds
- Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Trade-offs The multi-criteria scoring model
Frequently asked questions
- The quiz compares your lifestyle with the typical profile of each breed in our guide. Breed explains only about 9% of an individual dog's behaviour (Morrill et al., 2022), so the result shows tendencies, not guarantees.
- People often choose on looks, but the reasons animals are given up are about daily life: time, money, space, allergies, children (Salman et al., 1998). So we ask about the constraints you will live with every day. Photos only appear in the results.
- You can star up to three questions. Starred answers weigh 1.5 times as much in the calculation.
- The question is left out of the calculation. Use it whenever you are not sure.
- No. Your answers are encoded in the address of the results page so you can share the link, and the calculation runs in your browser. There is no account and nothing is stored on the server.
- Excluded breeds did not pass a strict filter (minimum child age, size limit, budget or category 2 of the Romanian OUG 55/2002) and are listed separately with the reason.