6 Dog Breeds That Are Slowly Disappearing…

The Chinook!

Chinook

Now, if only we could get rid of the "doodle" breed.

these dogs are extremely adorable!❤ but I never heard of these dogs before until now?🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶😕

I’m not sure that this is a reliable source…

I knew a girl who had six toes on each foot but that's because her parents were brother and sister…

❤ All of these are wonderful breeds; they have their abilities and purposes that are specific to task, or sports that most folks and families do not participate in anymore. The only answer would be that play and exercise need to be geared around the need that the dog has to perform that duty he was bred for… Such as dachshunds in the garden. Sit, stay, dig. Good girl, sit, stay, dig. Huskies could be helpful in this IF you have done your training and IF they really are bonded with you, and want to stick around, curious and watching and waiting to please YOU. I've seen dogs that will nudge the dirt back in place with their paws or their noses after they dig the holes.
You can learn what training games they use for Scottish terriers or hunting hounds of any sort so that they can do their tracking, such as grab a smelly piece of something interesting to such a dog, tie it to a string, now drop it on the ground and run yourself all around your backyard and let him follow scent when you finally let him out to find it wherever you hid it…whether up a tree or behind a bush or in a short den you dig for that purpose.
Diggers need to have a sandbox, you can hide toys in it. They can learn the names for each toy, play "find it"… that's physical and mental stimulation and exercise.
Retrievers of all kinds are certainly very good at hauling around your laundry basket or bag, and helping you with other chores. They can be taught to push the basket with their head, stop and look and see where they're going and then steer the basket if they're going awry. It takes a bit more mental concentration and a lot of other work to make it happen. The bigger diggers can dig your clothes out of the dryer and put them in the basket and then wrangle them out to you in the living room for folding. Can pick them out with their teeth. They can be taught to pull on the basket walking backwards. The smaller ones can be trained to jump up in the dryer and nudge the clothes out, or to stretch up into the dryer and grab them with their teeth and put them in the basket.
You can adapt the basket for all sizes by tying an appropriately long rope and having a bit of a mouthpiece such as a piece of old yard hose with knots tied on both ends to keep it in place on the rope, both ends of the cord tied to the basket and they can situate themselves in it as though it is a horse rig for a carriage, then they can pull the basket very easily, getting it around the corners of a doorway fairly easily.
There are just so many things that these dogs could be engaged in, with a little bit of effort and some thought. And maybe some YT videos.
As for me, I love the guardian types. They are more my speed. We have similar personalities, low or no exercise needs, they are just happy to be present with you, and unless you make them that way by accidentally reinforcing behaviors that will quickly grow out of hand, they are not needy, begging for attention and pets all the time. They can take or leave the lovin' for the moment and wait patiently for it to come later, and, we understand each other.
Though they are independent, they can bond with you and work well at tasks you give them or work well together with you. Though they say these guys are stubborn, they cannot out-stubborn me. I raised and trained my pups as a mama dog does, including mimicked regurgitation, which Mamadog does when she weans them, that is, when it is allowed by humans not inserting themselves into a situation that should be between mamadogs and pups. For the rest of it, it's basically helicopter parenting, but in a good way, and showing your displeasure by grunts or growls at what you don't want them to do. Nudging them away or distracting them. They usually stay within six feet of you because of the regurgitation/bonding thing, so you always know what all of them are doing (if you have a pack).
You give praise and stroking touches* when they are just sitting around being good — I would not want an unthinking companion with an entitled idea of herself, expecting to be paid for every exchange between you. They learn to be good to get that 'fellowship affection', I'll call it, from you. Mamadogs don't give pets on the head or ear scritches when they do right. The reward is the fellowship and the closeness, and the bonding that happens when they can touch each other or lay down and nap together, or back to back scanning for danger, protecting one another. Total disapproval would be being nudged away or poked with a nose in the ribs [my stiff fingers], or face with my palm, ostracized, ignored. When they have a change of demeanor, they are in fellowship again and all is happy. This all means that my dogs don't know a lot of commands, but they are thinkers and simply assess a situation and behave accordingly. Mamadogging has its advantages. At well before what is usually considered by most authorities to be full maturity, I hardly ever had to tell my Boxer what to do. She was the first one I raised this way, and my main inspiration for doing so. It reaped a lot of benefits. I have raised all my dogs this way for the last 30 years. I am happy to say I have not had chaos or destruction of property, or belongings doing things this way.❤

*If you care to pay attention, dogs do not like patting or slapping or the thumping that people do on their rib cage, their skin flinches, many of the dogs that I see that being done to are either trying to get away or are looking around nervously, or begin to do some kind of behavior that they ended up getting corrected. It's a trust/anxiety thing. I don't like it. They get used to it because you feed them.

The breeders of some of these are the reason they are not gaining popularity.