Horses and Dogs...

I was looking around a dog breed website, and I picked out a few that I thought would work good with horses and on a ranch. What are your expirences with this, and are there any other breeds I should consider?

So far my top 4 are

• Australian Cattle Dog
  http://www.justdogbreeds.com/australian-cattle-dog.html
  Airedale Terrier
  http://www.justdogbreeds.com/airedale-terrier.html
  Vizsla
  http://www.justdogbreeds.com/vizsla.html
  Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
  http://www.justdogbreeds.com/wirehai...g-griffon.html

I think Australian Cattle dog could be good for your meaning. Have you already consider other shepherd-breeds example Border collie or Australian shepherd?

To me it's more of what the horse think's of the dog, not the dog that makes a good ranch dog.... blue and shadow are great farm dog's that I have but I can't trust my mare abby to be any where near a dog.....we don't know why but she will try to kill them. There has to be a bond between horse and ridder and dog

I strongly recommend Great Pyrenees. They naturally make phenomenal guard dogs for livestock.

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/greatpyrenees.htm