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Small Dog Breeds

37 dog breeds match. Dog breeds whose registry-published adult weight places them in the small band — a published adult weight above 5.5 kg and up to 11 kg.

How this list is decided

Membership is derived from the upper end of the weight range the breed's registry publishes, not from an editorial judgement about how big a breed looks. Bands are calibrated for dogs. A breed whose standard publishes no weight, or publishes only a floor, is absent rather than guessed at — so this page is a view of what the registry states, not a complete taxonomy of dog size.

This is a category, not a recommendation. Members are listed alphabetically and nothing here is ranked or scored. Breed tendencies describe what a registry records about a breed — not what any individual dog will be like. Spend time with a specific animal before deciding.

In this group

Every profile carries registry-sourced measurements and recognition, each linked to the registry that published it. Breed tendencies are not guarantees — individual animals vary by genetics, training, socialisation, health, and household environment. Spend time with a specific dog before deciding.

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Every dog breed, A–Z

All 37 published dog breed profiles. Every entry is a plain link — nothing here needs JavaScript, and nothing is hidden behind a button.

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