the best dogs i have been around are Golden Retrievers and Huskys,I love a husky,but they like to hunt to much and roam,a friend of mine had one and I had a husky half breed,excellent dogs,but they would drag in dead ground hogs and uuuh an occasional goat,when they were together and mine ran a Mercedes into a tree,why the driver choose that over running over the dog I have no Idea,needless to say ole Kayak got put on a short chain after that
and he was bad to drill the neighbors dog in the butt,when he would get inside the chain,with all the neighbors kids screaming and crying,what fun he was lol
I did get him into an electric fence after all that,he was the best dog I ever had though
I've been around some exceptionally smart Golden Retrievers ,my friend had one that knew how to lift the latch on his his gate and would go and steal a cucumber from the side of the garden,he knew not to walk in the garden and then would run back inside his fence and then set the latch back in place, and you could say truck or van and he would go to the right vehicle
another friend had a ***** Golden and she figured out how to flip Frisbee's around till she could fit 5 in her mouth and bring em back to you and would be ready to go again,she was relentless in her pursuit of Frisbee's,she did bring back a lot of extra Frisbee's though
of course that is just working with a dog,get one that suites what you want and how active you want them to be,gotta watch out for the hound dogs,they love to be on the hunt and you never know what they will be hunting
another friends of mines Husky went and killed a bunch of fighting cocks and that cost him around 1500 bucks for that chicken dinner