Fast Facts About The 7 Best Dog Breeds For Families

Best described as active, friendly, and outgoing

Colors include: yellow, black, and chocolate.

Deep desire to please their human companion.

Excellent as guide dogs for the blind, search and rescue dogs, or narcotics sniffers for law enforcement.

Best described as devoted, friendly, and intelligent

Hard workers who make excellent companions, golden retrievers make great service dogs of all kinds.

They are also wonderful hunting dogs.

Best described as curious, friendly, and easygoing.

Bred as hunting dogs, they make excellent hunting companions.

They also excel at living with other dogs.

Best described as devoted, patient, and sweet.

Colors include: black, brown, gray, or white and black.

Excellent swimmers, they are just as at home in the water as they are on land.

Best described as calm, dignified, and friendly.

Colorings include: brindle, white, red, fawn, fallow or piebald.

They make excellent lapdogs.

Best described as devoted, graceful, and protective.

Collies were once primarily black, but colors now include: sable and white, tri-color, blue merle and white.

Live comfortably in urban or rural areas.

Best described as alert, curious, and loyal.

Colors include: red, belge (black and reddish brown), black and tan, or black.

Highly intelligent, they can be taught to perform many tricks and make excellent watchdogs.