Find your dog.
See who it actually stands beside.

Type a breed and the six breeds this panel measures closest to it stand beside it, drawn at the size of how close they actually are.

Every portrait is an AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of a real dog.

Golden Retriever

is measured nearest to Flat-Coated Retriever, and nothing among the other 257 breeds is nearer. The smallest branch holding them both covers 0.7% of this tree.

See the breeds measured closest to Golden Retriever
  1. Golden RetrieverGolden Retriever
  2. Flat-Coated RetrieverFlat-Coated Retriever
  3. Labrador RetrieverLabrador Retriever
  4. NewfoundlandNewfoundland
  5. LandseerLandseer
  6. Curly-Coated RetrieverCurly-Coated Retriever
  7. Irish SetterIrish Setter

Every portrait opens that breed’s own page. Size is the measurement: a dog at full height is as close as any two breeds here get, and the shortest is as far off as anything gets. The space before a dog is the jump from the one before it, so two standing shoulder to shoulder are a tie this data cannot break. Standing close means their lines separate late — not that either came from the other.

Bedlington TerrierBoykin SpanielPont-Audemer spanielPicardy ShepherdSaint BernardIrish SetterBasset Fauve de BretagneBasset HoundFinnish HoundDreverSouth Russian OvcharkaCesky TerrierPatterdale TerrierEnglish Toy SpanielCane CorsoGlen of Imaal TerrierChinookGreater Swiss Mountain DogBroholmerEnglish ShepherdSlovakian Wirehaired PointerWirehaired Pointing GriffonPetit Basset Griffon VendeenPetit Bleu de GascogneSmall Swiss HoundMagyar AgarDogo ArgentinoBelgian TervurenAppenzeller SennenhundLandseerFlat-Coated RetrieverCollieBourbonnais Pointing DogFrench SpanielGriffon NivernaisSwiss HoundScottish DeerhoundGerman Hunting TerrierEnglish Springer SpanielSaarloos WolfdogAriege PointerEnglish PointerGerman Wirehaired PointerSmooth Fox TerrierField SpanielSussex SpanielBlue Picardy SpanielBraques FrancaisBloodhoundAmerican FoxhoundBoerboelBohemian ShepherdKarsWire Fox TerrierMastiffWhite Swiss Shepherd DogGreat Anglo-French White and Orange HoundMajorca MastiffBoston TerrierOlde English BulldoggeBoxerCentral Asian Shepherd DogBull TerrierAnatolian Shepherd DogKai KenKishuAmerican AkitaThai RidgebackChow ChowGreenland DogEloJapanese ChinTibetan SpanielLhasa ApsoShih TzuBichon FriseCoton de TulearMalteseContinental Toy Spaniel (Papillon & Phalene)Black Russian TerrierVolpino ItalianoBrussels GriffonMiniature SchnauzerAmerican Eskimo DogGerman Spitz (Standard & Giant)German Spitz (Klein & Mittel)Icelandic SheepdogChesapeake Bay RetrieverCroatian SheepdogFinnish SpitzSwedish LapphundDanish-Swedish FarmdogCatahoula Leopard DogPyrenean ShepherdSpanish Water DogMudiMaremma SheepdogBrazilian TerrierDoberman PinscherRhodesian RidgebackBarbetAlpine DachsbrackeDachshundPuliPolish Tatra SheepdogEstrela Mountain DogSwedish ElkhoundAmerican Hairless TerrierGerman PinscherEnglish Toy TerrierSchapendoesAustralian Cattle DogOld English SheepdogBriardSmall MunsterlanderHellenic HoundCretan TracerIbizan HoundXoloitzcuintliYorkshire TerrierSilky TerrierGerman SpanielDutch ShepherdCurly-Coated RetrieverSpinone ItalianoPyrenean MastiffPharaoh HoundNorfolk Terrier
Kai KenShiba InuKishuFormosan Mountain DogAmerican AkitaJapanese AkitaThai RidgebackChinese Shar-PeiChow ChowAlaskan MalamuteGreenland DogSamoyedEloEurasierJapanese ChinTibetan TerrierTibetan SpanielRussian Tsvetnaya BolonkaLhasa ApsoPekingeseShih TzuRussian ToyBichon FriseBologneseCoton de TulearHavaneseMalteseSwedish VallhundContinental Toy Spaniel (Papillon & Phalene)SchipperkeBlack Russian TerrierGiant SchnauzerVolpino ItalianoAffenpinscherBrussels GriffonKromfohrlanderMiniature SchnauzerBergamasco SheepdogAmerican Eskimo DogJapanese SpitzGerman Spitz (Standard & Giant)KeeshondGerman Spitz (Klein & Mittel)PomeranianIcelandic SheepdogNorwegian BuhundChesapeake Bay RetrieverPortuguese SheepdogCroatian SheepdogPortuguese Podengo PequenoFinnish SpitzNorrbottenspitzSwedish LapphundLancashire HeelerDanish-Swedish FarmdogDalmatianCatahoula Leopard DogNova Scotia Duck Tolling RetrieverPyrenean ShepherdLagotto RomagnoloSpanish Water DogSegugio ItalianoMudiKuvaszMaremma SheepdogNorwegian ElkhoundBrazilian TerrierPrague RatterDoberman PinscherBouvier des FlandresRhodesian RidgebackCatalan SheepdogBarbetPortuguese Water DogAlpine DachsbrackeBavarian Mountain Scent HoundDachshundLowchenPuliPumiPolish Tatra SheepdogSlovak CuvacEstrela Mountain DogPeruvian HairlessSwedish ElkhoundSwedish White ElkhoundAmerican Hairless TerrierToy Fox TerrierGerman PinscherMiniature PinscherEnglish Toy TerrierManchester Terrier (Standard)SchapendoesStabyhounAustralian Cattle DogAustralian KelpieOld English SheepdogBeauceronBriardCatalburunSmall MunsterlanderRussian HoundHellenic HoundZagarCretan TracerSpanish MastiffIbizan HoundSloughiXoloitzcuintliBiewer TerrierYorkshire TerrierAustralian TerrierSilky TerrierCairn TerrierGerman SpanielTosa InuDutch ShepherdHovawartCurly-Coated RetrieverCardigan Welsh CorgiSpinone ItalianoGreat PyreneesPyrenean MastiffCirneco dell'EtnaPharaoh HoundGalgo EspanolNorfolk TerrierNorwich TerrierBedlington TerrierAmerican Water SpanielBoykin SpanielIrish Water SpanielPont-Audemer spanielBelgian LaekenoisPicardy ShepherdLeonbergerSaint BernardAustralian ShepherdIrish SetterAuvergne PointerBasset Fauve de BretagneBasset Artesien NormandBasset HoundEstonian HoundFinnish HoundHamiltonstovareDreverGerman HoundSouth Russian OvcharkaPolish GreyhoundCesky TerrierSealyham TerrierPatterdale TerrierCavalier King Charles SpanielEnglish Toy SpanielWelsh Springer SpanielCane CorsoNeapolitan MastiffGlen of Imaal TerrierBelgian MalinoisChinookBernese Mountain DogGreater Swiss Mountain DogNorwegian LundehundBroholmerLabrador RetrieverEnglish ShepherdVizslaSlovakian Wirehaired PointerWeimaranerWirehaired Pointing GriffonGrand Basset Griffon VendeenPetit Basset Griffon VendeenBlue Gascony GriffonPetit Bleu de GascogneRedbone CoonhoundSmall Swiss HoundSarplaninacMagyar AgarParson Russell TerrierDogo ArgentinoBelgian Sheepdog (Groenendael)Belgian TervurenOld German ShepherdAppenzeller SennenhundEntlebucher Mountain DogLandseerNewfoundlandFlat-Coated RetrieverGolden RetrieverCollieShetland SheepdogBourbonnais Pointing DogBrittanyFrench SpanielPudelpointerGriffon NivernaisBruno Jura HoundSwiss HoundTurkish ZerdavaScottish DeerhoundWhippetGerman Hunting TerrierCocker SpanielEnglish Springer SpanielDogue de BordeauxSaarloos WolfdogEnglish SetterAriege PointerBracco ItalianoEnglish PointerCesky FousekGerman Wirehaired PointerCaucasian OvcharkaSmooth Fox TerrierEnglish Cocker SpanielField SpanielClumber SpanielSussex SpanielCzechoslovakian WolfdogBlue Picardy SpanielPicardy SpanielBraques FrancaisGerman Shorthaired PointerBloodhoundOtterhoundAmerican FoxhoundWelsh TerrierBoerboelDogo CanarioBohemian ShepherdHarrierKarsLakeland TerrierWire Fox TerrierBullmastiffMastiffEast-European shepherdWhite Swiss Shepherd DogGreat Anglo-French Tricolour HoundGreat Anglo-French White and Orange HoundAkbashMajorca MastiffAmerican Staffordshire TerrierBoston TerrierFrench BulldogOlde English BulldoggeAmerican BulldogBoxerStaffordshire Bull TerrierCentral Asian Shepherd DogSalukiBull TerrierMiniature Bull TerrierAnatolian Shepherd DogTurkish Mastiff

All 256, arranged by how close they measure

One continuous field, left to right and down. Every dog’s neighbours here are breeds it measurably sits closest to. Choose any dog below and the comparison at the top of the page changes to that breed. Each is an AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of a real dog.

Then your own dog’s breeds, drawn to size

Send the breed percentages a DNA report already gave you. We paint the breeds it names, stand them largest percentage first, and print it. Below is a real one — Bennie is our own dog and these are his actual numbers.

Bennie

by measured share of breed

Cocker SpanielCocker Spaniel28.1%
Siberian HuskySiberian Husky18.1%
German Shepherd DogGerman Shepherd Dog17.1%
American Pit Bull TerrierAmerican Pit Bull Terrier12%
SamoyedSamoyed9%
American Staffordshire TerrierAmerican Staffordshire Terrier2.8%
Supermutt12.9%
100% accounted for. Painted area is the share. The hatched block is the part the test could not name, and 3 of the breeds it did name have no tip on this research panel at all — which is ordinary, and is why the sheet follows the report rather than the tree. What you are looking at is inferred from the percentages Bennie’s Embark report returned: not a literal known pedigree, and not a claim that any one of these breeds came from another.