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Key facts
- Common nicknames
- Newf, Newfie
- Origin
- Island of Newfoundland , modern-day Canada
- Height
- Males
- Weight
- Males
- Coat
- Thick and straight
- Colour
- Black, white with black patches ("Landseer"), brown (not in Canadian standard), and grey (only in US standard, not recognized by other standards)
- Litter size
- 4–12 pups
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NotesProvincial mammal of Newfoundland Dog (domestic dog)
The Newfoundland is a large breed of working dog. They can be black, grey, brown, or black and white. However, in the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it became part of Canada, only black and Landseer (white-and-black) coloured dogs were considered to be proper members of the breed. They were originally bred and used as working dogs for fishermen in Newfoundland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Newfoundland dog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.