Height: 17-22 inches
Weight: 35-60 pounds
Life expectancy: 12-15 years
Bottom line: Sailors need dogs too, and this breed was used to complete impressive tasks like helping herd fish into nets, retrieving nets from the water and even bringing messages from one ship to another.
As you can expect, these dogs love the water, and will be happy to join you on a boating or kayaking outing. They are smaller and not as strong as other working dogs, which makes them good family pets.
However, they are loud (as sailors are wont to be), so they sometimes scare infants.
