Photo credits
The reference photographs in the breed directory come from Wikimedia Commons. Most are licensed CC BY or CC BY-SA, which require the photographer to be credited as a condition of use — so they are credited here, in full, with a link to each file. We ask breeders to honour the terms they agree to; the same applies to us.
These photographs illustrate a breed. None of them is a photograph of any listed breeder’s animals, and none appears on a breeder’s record.
The dog directory lists FCI’s own nomenclature by default. The breeds FCI does not recognise — shown when you switch to all breeds — were taken from Wikipedia’s list of dog breeds, read on 29 August 2026 and used under CC BY-SA 4.0, which requires attribution as a condition of use. That list covers breeds, varieties and types, so some of those entries are landraces rather than standardised breeds; the platform says only that FCI does not recognise them, never that they are recognised elsewhere.
The Portuguese cat breeders on this platform were transcribed from the public breeder directory of Clube Português de Felinicultura, Portugal’s FIFe member club, read on 17 August 2026. CPF’s directory is a form breeders fill in themselves: being listed evidences club membership and nothing else. It carries no health testing, no litter records and no complaint history, so no record built from it has a satisfaction score, and none of them has been verified by us.
The Spanish cat breeders come from the public breeder directory of Asociación Felina Española, read on 18 August 2026. ASFE’s bar is a little higher than a fill-in form — a cattery is listed only with paid-up membership and its litters registered with ASFE — but that still evidences membership, not health testing, and ASFE publishes no complaint history, so as with CPF these records carry no satisfaction score and none has been verified by us.
The dog breeder records come from Portuguese breed clubs, read on 18–19 August 2026. Portugal has no national dog breeder directory — Clube Português de Canicultura publishes none — so these records come from 11 of its affiliated per-breed clubs, each of which lists its own members:
As with the cat directory, being on one of these lists evidences club membership, not health testing, litter records or a complaint history — so these records carry no satisfaction score and none has been verified by us.
Some registries do not permit this, and where that is written down we do not do it. Spain’s Real Sociedad Canina de España and Portugal’s Clube Português Epagneul Breton both prohibit reproducing their directories, so the 63 records we had built from them were removed on 27 August 2026. The Kennel Club, Germany’s VDH and France’s Société Centrale Canine prohibit it too, and were never read. So there is no Spanish national dog directory here. The Spanish kennels you will still find under dogs are members a Portuguese club published, and they are credited to that club — they are not Spain’s register, and their absence from it means nothing.
If any of these records is yours and something in it is wrong or you want it removed, claim the page and tell us. We argue that breeders should be held to the terms they agree to; republishing somebody’s details without a way to correct them would be the same failure pointed the other way.
Breed reference data on the breed pages — life span, weight, breed group, origin, temperament and description — comes from The Cat API and The Dog API. Registry status, hereditary risk panels and every satisfaction score are this platform’s own.
The round country flags are from round-flags, used under the MIT licence; the licence notice is kept with the files.
Life expectancy for dog breeds is taken from McMillan, K.M., Bielby, J., Williams, C.L., Upjohn, M.M., Casey, R.A. & Christley, R.M. (2024) Longevity of companion dog breeds: those at risk from early death. Scientific Reports 14, 531. — licensed CC BY 4.0. Cat figures are computed by this platform from Dataset: O'Neill, D. & Teng, K.T. (2024), Figshare, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.25006802, CC BY 4.0. which accompanies Teng, K.T., Brodbelt, D.C., Church, D.B. & O'Neill, D.G. (2024) Life tables of annual life expectancy and risk factors for mortality in cats in the United Kingdom. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 26(5). Both are measured in the United Kingdom, and neither is a prediction about an individual animal.
Site photography
Association and registry marks
Generated images
Some illustrative images on this site were generated with AI by the platform rather than photographed. None of them shows a real animal, and none is evidence of anything: no picture on a breeder’s record or an animal’s page is generated, and where a real photograph does not exist the platform shows a placeholder instead of inventing one.
Breed reference photographs
A mark shown beside a breeder’s membership identifies the body they claim to belong to. It is not that body’s endorsement of the breeder, or of Breed Radar.
The marks above shown as holding no licence are used without permission from their owner. They identify the body, and we are seeking permission for each. Tell us if you own one and would rather it were not here.
