About the guide

Coat, Ears & Tail is a free breed-spotting game. Every round shows one real photo and four names. If you’re unsure, open a field mark. Each one is drawn from the breed’s official AKC standard and costs 20 of the round’s 100 points.

Where the facts come from

Field marks paraphrase, or briefly quote, the American Kennel Club breed standards. Each reveal links to the full standard. Popularity numbers come from the AKC’s 2025 most popular breeds list. This game is not affiliated with or endorsed by the AKC.

Free to play, always

Every round, mode and Daily is free, and always will be. The game is kept running by optional tips, merch and clearly labeled sponsors, never by locking rounds.

Privacy

There are no accounts, no ad trackers and no cookies. Your Daily results and best scores stay in your browser’s local storage. To see whether the game is working, it may record anonymous events (a run started, a run finished, a share tapped) along with a random ID stored on this device. It never records your name, email or location. Page views are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies. Questions: info@musingwebdesign.com.

Photo credits

All photos are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licenses below. They have been resized and cropped.