Simply explained, purpose - bred
dogs perform a specific job, from hunting game to herding livestock to working in service to a person with disabilities, having the inborn qualities needed to succeed.
Not exact matches
Like guide
dogs for the blind, psychiatric service
dog are highly trained to
perform specific jobs.
As new tasks are identified, Newton says the U.S. military continues to experiment with various
dog breeds to determine which will be most capable of
performing that
specific job.
Back in the old days,
dogs were used to
perform a
specific job rather than for their looks — e.g. hunting
dogs, herding
dogs, guard
dogs.
Most
dog breeds were originally created to
perform a
specific job — retrieving, herding, tracking, hunting, guarding, rescuing, and pulling carts or sleds.