Coat, Ears & Tail
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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.

BreedPhotographerLicenseSource
AkitaCaro108CC BY-SA 2.0 deCommons
Alaskan Malamutewaga11CC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Australian ShepherdTrickdog-FinaCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
BasenjifugzuCC BY 2.0Commons
Basset HoundCali1008Public domainCommons
BeagleSlyronitCC BY-SA 4.0Commons
Belgian MalinoisSvenska Mässan from SwedenCC BY 2.0Commons
Bernese Mountain DogFriendlyToasterCC BY 4.0Commons
BloodhoundCleanboot (talk) (Uploads)Public domainCommons
Border CollieSannseCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
BorzoiPleple2000CC BY-SA 4.0Commons
Boston TerrierAndreas SchlaugatCC BY 3.0Commons
BoxerMood210CC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Bull TerrierPixabay User TC-TORRESCC0Commons
BulldogPleple2000CC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Cane CorsoClaudio DomizianiCC BY-SA 2.5Commons
Cardigan Welsh CorgiFatFairfaxCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Cavalier King Charles SpanielAndreweatockCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
ChihuahuaOraximCC BY-SA 4.0Commons
Cocker SpanielOKJaguarCC BY 4.0Commons
CollieYasu wCC BY-SA 4.0Commons
DachshundKatemil94CC BY-SA 4.0Commons
DalmatianHeinz HöflingCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Doberman PinscherMiroslav CacikCopyrighted free useCommons
French BulldogIldar Sagdejev (Specious)CC BY-SA 4.0Commons
German Shepherd DoggomagotiCC BY-SA 2.5Commons
German Shorthaired PointerBonnie van den Born, http://www.bonfoto.nlCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Golden RetrieverJanneke Vreugdenhil (derivative: Anka Friedrich)Public domainCommons
Great DaneLilly MCC BY-SA 2.5Commons
Great PyreneesHeartSpoonCC BY-SA 4.0Commons
Havaneseaudrey_selCC BY-SA 2.0Commons
Labrador RetrieverIDS.photos from Tiverton, UKCC BY-SA 2.0Commons
Miniature SchnauzerCanarianCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
NewfoundlandSKernCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Pembroke Welsh CorgiDog breed factsCC BY-SA 4.0Commons
PomeranianKardashianpomsCC BY-SA 4.0Commons
PoodleTim Wilson from Blaine, MN, USACC BY 2.0Commons
PugMops_oct09.jpg: Dagur Brynjólfsson from Hafnarfjordur, Iceland; derivative work: Anka FriedrichCC BY-SA 2.0Commons
Rhodesian RidgebackSvenska Mässan from SwedenCC BY 2.0Commons
RottweilerDr. Manfred Herrmann Allgemeiner Deutscher Rottweiler-Klub (ADRK) e.V. http://www.ADRK.deCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Saint BernardBlankyCC BY-SA 3.0Commons
SamoyedNo machine-readable author provided. Pleple2000 assumed (based on copyright claims).CC BY-SA 3.0Commons
Shetland SheepdogFlickr user nickobec (Nick Cowie)CC BY-SA 2.0Commons
Shiba InuTakashiba at English WikipediaPublic domainCommons
Shih TzuMarcelo RosaMeloCC0Commons
Siberian HuskyxJaM (talk · contribs)CC BY-SA 3.0Commons
VizslaBryon RealeyCC BY 2.0Commons
WeimaranerTrougnoufCC BY 4.0Commons
WhippetWinkyCC BY 2.0Commons
Yorkshire TerrierJoselodosCC0Commons