List of Different Dog Breeds in the World

U.S. state dogs

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Eleven states of the United States have designated an official state dog breed. Maryland was the first state to name a dog breed as a state symbol naming the Chesapeake Bay Retriever in 1964. Pennsylvania followed the year after naming the Great Dane as its official breed. Dog breeds are mostly affiliated with the states that they originated in. North Carolina chose the Plott Hound as it was the only dog breed indigenous to the state.