In honor of tonight’s broadcast of the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, here again is a list of the modern equivalents of the breeds that the fantasy peoples of my “Vanished Lands” homebrew campaign setting (currently using Pathfinder) would have:

>> Dwarves (guard dogs)

• Hill (Dverge; most common)-Corgi, Saint Bernard

• Mountain (Khaz, Deep; urban nobility)-Bernese, Mastiff

• River (seminomadic)-Otterhound, Skipperke

• Korubokuru (eastern)-Chow Chow

• Dune (Vanaka/Utuchekulu; southern)-Basenji

• Gray (Duergar, Derro; usually evil)-Bulldog

>> Elves (hunting dogs; Cooshie resembles Whippet)

• Sylvan (Wood; most common)-Pointer

• High (Quelanthi; urban nobility)-Poodle

• Grey (Faerie; mountain craftspeople)-Spitz

• Wild (Grugach; barbarians)-Wolfhound

• Bamboo Spirit Folk (eastern Sylvan)-Shih Tzu, Shiba Inu, Foo Dog

• River Spirit Folk (eastern Grey)-Greyhound

• Dark (Drow, Nannuattan; usually evil)-Doberman, Groendal

• Valley Elves (reclusive magocrats)-Vizsla

• Frost Elves (far northern cousins)-Borzoi, Samoyed

>> Note : Avariel (northwestern winged Elves), Thallasaquendi (western Sea Elves), and Dimernesti (eastern Sea Spirit) have other companion animals

>> Gnomes (terriers)

• Surface (Forest, Rock)-Border/Cairn Terrier, German Pincher

• Svirfneblin (Deep)-Dachshund

• Tinker (Minoi; Mad)-Schnauzer

>> Halflings (hounds; Blink Dogs resemble Beagles)

• Harfoot (Hobbits; closest to humans)-Corgi, Foxhound

• Faldine (Tallfellow; closest to Elves)-Airedale, Spaniel

• Woldan (Deep; closest to Dwarves)-Basset, Pug

• Shan Sao (eastern)-Chin, Pekingese

>> Humans (all purposes)

• Barbari (proto-Slavic/Central Asian)-Afghan, Husky

• Hifalendorin (proto-Western European)-Boxer, Retriever, Tervuren

• Saganim (proto-Celtic)-Newfoundland, Sheepdog

• Shengtese (Oriental, East Asian)-Sharpei

• Suthern (proto-West Asian)-Ibizan, Pharoah hounds

• Zarendo Islander (East African)-Rhodesian Ridgeback

>> Selected Other Humanoid Subspecies/races :

>> Goblinoids

-Goblins-Bull Terrier, Wargs

-Hobgoblins-Seluki

-Bakemono-Hairless Chinese Crested

>> Ogre-kin (Orcs, Ogres, Bugbears, Oni)-Rottweiler

-Giant-kin (Giants, Trolls)-Neopolitan Mastiff

>> Note : Beast-kin generally don’t keep animal companions.