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The breed data is what this site is. A wrong number in it matters more than anything else on the page, so corrections get read first and answered first — especially from people who have bred, shown, groomed, fostered, or simply lived twelve years with the breed in question.
You do not need to be polite about it. “Your grooming score for this breed is nonsense and here is why” is a better email than a careful one that never says what to change.
Your address never reaches a breeder, a rescue, or anyone selling dogs — this site passes details to none of them — and there is no list to be added to. It is used to write back to you and then it is done.
What usually arrives
- A trait score that is wrong for the breed you live with
- The most useful mail there is. A Basenji owner on the barking score, a working-line Shepherd owner on trainability, a groomer on what a coat really costs to keep. Tell us the breed, the trait, and what you would score it.
- A breed that is missing
- There are 45 breeds here across 8 groups, and several hundred recognised worldwide. The gaps are real, and the ones people ask for get built first.
- A matchup worth adding
- 26 pairings are up. The ones that earn a page are breeds people genuinely mistake for each other, or decisions where both dogs are defensible and the difference only shows up at year two.
- A health condition we have listed badly
- Screening panels change. If a breed club has added a test, dropped one, or if we have listed a condition the breed is not actually prone to, that is a data bug and it gets fixed.
- A puppy price bracket that has drifted
- Brackets go stale faster than anything else on a breed page. Breeders and rescue coordinators see the real numbers long before we do.
- A photo credit that names the wrong person
- Breed photos are Wikimedia Commons images and the attribution is a licence condition, not a courtesy. A wrong author or licence line is worth an email.
What happens to it
Two people run this site and both of them read the form. There is no support queue and no ticket number, which mostly means a reply takes a few days and comes from a person who has the breed page open.
A correction that can be checked against a kennel-club standard, a national breed club's own documentation, or a published health-testing scheme gets made in the breed data, and that breed's page carries a new date afterwards. A correction that rests on one owner's experience is still worth sending — it usually sends us looking — but a single dog does not move a score that is meant to describe the whole breed. Where the breed clubs themselves disagree, the page says so rather than picking a number and pretending it is settled.
Nothing you write is published. Your email address is used to answer you and is then of no further use to anyone here.
What this inbox cannot do
Find you a puppy. This site does not sell dogs, list breeders, take referral money, or pass your details to anyone who does. For a litter, start with the national breed club for that breed and with breed-specific rescue, both of which know the local picture far better than a comparison site can.
Give veterinary advice. The health entries on a breed page are the test results to ask a breeder to show you, not a diagnosis and not a prediction about your dog. A dog that is unwell needs a vet today, not a breed page.
Tell you which breed to get, personally. That answer turns on your hours, your housing, your other animals, and how much hair you can live with — none of which a stranger learns from a paragraph. The trait filters and the matchups were built to do that work properly, and they will do more for you in ten minutes than we could in a reply.
Before you write
The methodology page explains where every score, health list and price bracket comes from and what the 1-to-5 scale means. Plenty of questions are already answered there.