About the guide
Coat, Ears & Tail is a free breed-spotting game. Every round shows one real photo and four names. If you’re unsure, open a field mark. Each one is drawn from the breed’s official AKC standard and costs 20 of the round’s 100 points.
Where the facts come from
Field marks paraphrase, or briefly quote, the American Kennel Club breed standards. Each reveal links to the full standard. Popularity numbers come from the AKC’s 2025 most popular breeds list. This game is not affiliated with or endorsed by the AKC.
Free to play, always
Every round, mode and Daily is free, and always will be. The game is kept running by optional tips, merch and clearly labeled sponsors, never by locking rounds.
Privacy
There are no accounts, no ad trackers and no cookies. Your Daily results and best scores stay in your browser’s local storage. To see whether the game is working, it may record anonymous events (a run started, a run finished, a share tapped) along with a random ID stored on this device. It never records your name, email or location. Page views are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies. Questions: [email protected].
Photo credits
All photos are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licenses below. They have been resized and cropped.
| Breed | Photographer | License |
|---|---|---|
| Akita | Caro108 | CC BY-SA 2.0 de |
| Alaskan Malamute | waga11 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Australian Shepherd | Trickdog-Fina | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Basenji | fugzu | CC BY 2.0 |
| Basset Hound | Cali1008 | Public domain |
| Beagle | Slyronit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Belgian Malinois | Svenska Mässan from Sweden | CC BY 2.0 |
| Bernese Mountain Dog | FriendlyToaster | CC BY 4.0 |
| Bloodhound | Cleanboot (talk) (Uploads) | Public domain |
| Border Collie | Sannse | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Borzoi | Pleple2000 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Boston Terrier | Andreas Schlaugat | CC BY 3.0 |
| Boxer | Mood210 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Bull Terrier | Pixabay User TC-TORRES | CC0 |
| Bulldog | Pleple2000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Cane Corso | Claudio Domiziani | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| Cardigan Welsh Corgi | FatFairfax | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Cavalier King Charles Spaniel | Andreweatock | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Chihuahua | Oraxim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Cocker Spaniel | OKJaguar | CC BY 4.0 |
| Collie | Yasu w | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Dachshund | Katemil94 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Dalmatian | Heinz Höfling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Doberman Pinscher | Miroslav Cacik | Copyrighted free use |
| French Bulldog | Ildar Sagdejev (Specious) | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| German Shepherd Dog | gomagoti | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| German Shorthaired Pointer | Bonnie van den Born, http://www.bonfoto.nl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Golden Retriever | Janneke Vreugdenhil (derivative: Anka Friedrich) | Public domain |
| Great Dane | Lilly M | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| Great Pyrenees | HeartSpoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Havanese | audrey_sel | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Labrador Retriever | IDS.photos from Tiverton, UK | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Miniature Schnauzer | Canarian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Newfoundland | SKern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Pembroke Welsh Corgi | Dog breed facts | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Pomeranian | Kardashianpoms | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Poodle | Tim Wilson from Blaine, MN, USA | CC BY 2.0 |
| Pug | Mops_oct09.jpg: Dagur Brynjólfsson from Hafnarfjordur, Iceland; derivative work: Anka Friedrich | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Rhodesian Ridgeback | Svenska Mässan from Sweden | CC BY 2.0 |
| Rottweiler | Dr. Manfred Herrmann Allgemeiner Deutscher Rottweiler-Klub (ADRK) e.V. http://www.ADRK.de | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Saint Bernard | Blanky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Samoyed | No machine-readable author provided. Pleple2000 assumed (based on copyright claims). | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Shetland Sheepdog | Flickr user nickobec (Nick Cowie) | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Shiba Inu | Takashiba at English Wikipedia | Public domain |
| Shih Tzu | Marcelo RosaMelo | CC0 |
| Siberian Husky | xJaM (talk · contribs) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Vizsla | Bryon Realey | CC BY 2.0 |
| Weimaraner | Trougnouf | CC BY 4.0 |
| Whippet | Winky | CC BY 2.0 |
| Yorkshire Terrier | Joselodos | CC0 |