The names below are regional and provincial labels that appear in our research on this group. Based on the evidence collected so far, none is yet established as a distinct breed — each is best understood as a local type, naming variant, or unverified landrace within the wider complex. They are held here, openly and without a standalone breed page, until stronger direct evidence (genetic, morphometric, or registry) is found. This is a living reference and these determinations may change.
Most are documented in relation to the parent breed English Mastiff.
Final recommendation for the "Altdeutsche Hütehunde (umbrella) / Old German Herding Dogs" label: "Hold — as herding/droving landrace umbrella; Exclude from LGD taxonomy." The report finds Germany has no indigenous LGD br
"Page type: naming_guide (naming-boundary + non-LGD guidance). Do not create a full_profile or full_profile_with_caveats page; the label is not an LGD." Landrace status: umbrella_label_not_a_distinct_breed. Bandog is a h
See English Mastiff →Report: "Page type: research_status (with routing note pointing to Non-LGD boundary content), OR naming_guide"; "Routing decision: Non-LGD / Exclude from livestock guardian breed list"; retain noindex — a boundary record
"Page type: research_status → route to a naming-boundary synthesis page. Do NOT publish as an LGD full_profile" (with noindex until non-LGD framing is written); the breed is a well-documented FCI herding & property-guard
Page type: research_status with narrative framing as a Belgian cart/draft dog, farm utility/watchdog and historically extinct/reconstructed breed; NOINDEX recommended until second-pass verification; explicitly "Not: full
Recommended LGD.DOG Classification
See Bouvier des Flandres →"Page type: research_status or naming_guide — the Briard should be handled as a naming / boundary case that is NOT an LGD... Do not use full_profile on LGD.DOG." (noindex: yes; Final recommendation: Non-LGD).
Recommended LGD.DOG Classification
"Page type: Naming-boundary / disambiguation entry (naming_guide), not a full LGD profile." Final recommendation: EXCLUDE / NON-LGD — a 20th-century wolfdog/companion/patrol breed from the GSD lineage, not a livestock gu
"The Dogo Guatemalteco should be assigned a research_status page on LGD.DOG, clearly labeled as NOT an LGD... Against a full LGD profile: No evidence supports a full LGD profile designation" — research_status flagged as
"Kastamonu Shepherd Dog" is best treated as a geographic naming cluster rather than a distinct breed or characterized landrace; the recommended page type is research_status with noindex pending further evidence.
"Hold with caveats. Farm/horticulture-field-guardian framing sourced to TANUVAS is safe. Kombai's livestock-protection framing (Sharmalan Thevar) is weakly supported and should be marked 'Needs Verification' — this is th
"Page type: naming_guide (with a short Navarra naming-boundary note that routes to the main Pyrenean Mastiff full_profile). Do not create a standalone full_profile for 'Mastín del Pirineo Navarro'." The name is a histori
See Pyrenean Mastiff →"Classification implication: the Molossus of Epirus should remain a Needs More Research record" — no study samples a Molossus of Epirus panel; indirect evidence (transhumance-driven gene flow, Šarplaninac heterogeneity/n
See Šarplaninac →Recommended LGD.DOG Classification: page_type = research_status (insufficient evidence — no peer-reviewed direct data on genetics, morphometrics, health, or behavior; keep noindex until independent evidence appears); exe
Recommended LGD.DOG classification: naming/boundary case with a reconstructed-breed profile — treat as Pub-
Recommended classification is "naming_guide + research_status": the evidence does not support a full_profile because no distinct "Ordu Shepherd Dog" exists as a characterized entity; it is an unsupported geographic namin
Page type: research_status or naming_guide — hold as a boundary/naming record within the LGD.DOG corpus rather than a livestock-guardian profile; routing verdict Non-LGD / Exclude from livestock guardian breed list, reta
Page Type Recommendation: research_status — "The Plott Hound is a well-documented American hunting hound with no meaningful primary evidence for traditional livestock guardian work. A full_profile LGD page is not appropr
Report classifies as "research_status"/"non_lgd_boundary_record" — a well-documented Non-LGD Middle Eastern sighthound handled only as a naming/boundary clarification case; explicitly keep noindex and "hold from indexing
Recommended LGD.DOG Classification: "Page type: naming_guide (boundary/disambiguation page)... Do not create a full_profile." Final recommendation: "Non-LGD -> Exclude as a standalone LGD breed record -> Route to a namin
"Recommended LGD.DOG classification: Non-LGD (hunting-breed / Nihon-ken boundary record)" — page type "held or naming_guide (or research_status)", noindex recommended; a hunting breed with no documented livestock-guardin
Report's explicit routing: "Non-LGD / Exclude from livestock-guardian coverage. Retain as a naming-boundary record to disambiguate from the Slovenský čuvač (Slovak Cuvac, FCI 142) — the actual Slovak livestock-guardian b
Report recommends the Tosa-tōken be a "Non-LGD fighting-dog boundary record with legal/liability caution" and to "noindex both boundary pages until the site's editorial line on fighting-breed and hunting-breed records is