A large, muscular dog breed originally bred in Belgium to herd cattle and guard farms.
From French bouvier, derived from bouverie (oxherd or cattle farm), from bouf meaning ox. The modern breed was standardized in Belgium in the early 1900s.
The Bouvier des Flandres nearly went extinct after World War I because it was nearly wiped out in its native Flanders region, but dedicated Belgian breeders saved the breed from just a handful of surviving dogs.
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