Catahoula Leopard Dog — an AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of a real dog
An AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of a real dog.

Catahoula Leopard Dog

Placed on this panel from 5 sequenced dogs, among 258 breeds.

Measured nearest to American Foxhound — but drop any one of the sequenced dogs behind this breed and a different one comes first, so naming a single closest breed would be a lie of precision. The top of this list is a tie.

The 12 breeds nearest to Catahoula Leopard Dog.

The line starts at the tightest pairing this panel holds and ends at the widest separation measured on it, so how far along these marks sit is the answer to how close Catahoula Leopard Dog really is to anything.

1American Foxhound2Redbone Coonhound3Great Anglo-French Tricolour Hound4Griffon Nivernais5Harrier6Blue Gascony Griffon7American Bulldog8Great Anglo-French White and Orange Hound9English Shepherd10Boerboel11Continental Bulldog12American Staffordshire Terrier

Closeness is measured from the genomes, and nothing else. It has no units and no dates. Two breeds sitting close together means their lines separate late in this data. It does not mean either one came from the other.

5 sequenced dogs is a thin sample. This breed’s exact neighbours could move if more were added; the neighbourhood is steadier than the order within it.