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• Labrador Retrievers were originally bred to retrieve fishing nets.
• In the 19th century Dalmatians defended carriages against highwaymen and kept away animals that could scare the horses.
• Monks used the Lhasa Apso as a guard dog in temples.
• Siberian Huskies have been used to herd reindeer in Siberia for 3000 years.
• Louis Doberman, a German tax-collector, created the Doberman breed in the late 1860s to protect him while he worked.