Dog breed images for online pet stores

Online pet stores can use dog breed images for shop by breed menus, breed landing pages, size guides and emails. Show the head portrait in small tiles and a three-quarter view on landing pages. Use free previews with a credit link, and buy full-size files only for print or packaging.

Where breed images help a store

Shoppers often search by breed: a harness for a Pug, a bed for a Great Dane. A breed menu with a picture next to each name is easier to scan than a long text list. The matching style matters here. If every tile has the same angle, size and empty background, the grid looks designed instead of assembled.

The images in this catalog are AI-generated illustrations. They show no real dog. Use them for navigation and decoration, not as product photos.

Shop by breed navigation

Build the menu from the breed list so it follows the catalog and you do not maintain it by hand. The list needs no key and can be read from a browser.

Use the head view in the tiles. A head portrait stays readable at a small size and leaves room for the breed name. Keep one view across the whole menu. Mixing angles in one grid makes the dogs look unequal.

Seven breeds come in several colors: French Bulldog, Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, Dachshund, Doberman, Poodle and Great Dane. A store rarely needs the color in a menu. Use the breed's default_variant there and offer colors on the landing page, where a shopper may choose.

Breed landing pages

A landing page for one breed can hold a larger picture, a short guide to fitting products and links to filtered product lists. Use front-left as the main image. It shows the whole dog, so it works at the top of a page. Add head as a small badge near the title if you want a second image.

Write the page text yourself: the sizes you stock, fit notes from your returns, care advice from your staff. A picture and a summary do not make a landing page. For the full approach, see build dog breed pages for a pet website.

Put the credit link next to the image when you use previews:

<img src="https://dogimage.dev/api/v1/images/french-bulldog/default/front-left?size=1024"
     alt="Illustration of a French Bulldog" width="512" height="512">
<a href="https://dogimage.dev/dogs/french-bulldog">French Bulldog image: Dog Image API</a>

Size guides

A size guide shows how a product fits a dog's body. The left and right views give a clear side profile, and front and rear show width. A guide for coats or harnesses can show the side view with your own measurement lines drawn over it. Because the background is transparent, you can place the dog on your guide's own color or grid.

Be careful with scale. Each dog fills its own frame, so two breeds in the same grid are not drawn to scale against each other. Do not use the pictures to imply that one breed is a given size relative to another. State real measurements in text, from your own sizing data. The left side gallery shows every breed from one angle if you want to see how the frames compare.

Emails

Email clients differ, so keep it simple. Use the 512 pixel preview or a full-size file you have resized and hosted yourself. Do not link the full-size API endpoint from an email. Previews can be hot-linked, and they must carry the credit link in the message. If you do not want a credit link in a template, download full-size files and host them yourself.

Which views fit which place

The plan arithmetic

One image is one view of one set at full size. A plan counts distinct images per calendar month (UTC), and fetching the same one again in the same month is free.

• One view of every breed's default set is 298 images. Starter allows 200 a month and Pro allows 700, so Pro covers it in one month. On Starter it takes two months.
• Three views of every default set (head, front-left, left) is 894 images. That is over Pro, so you spread it across two months or take All images.
• If your store covers 40 breeds with three views each, you need 120 images and Starter has room.

Free previews cost nothing in images, so start there. See the pricing page for the plans.

License points for commerce

• Previews, at 512 and 1024 pixels, can be used commercially with a visible credit link next to the image or on the same page.
• Full-size files can go into your own products: sites, documents, print and packaging. No credit is needed.
• You may not resell the images, sublicense them, or republish them as a collection or library. A "breed pack" download is out. A shop that uses them in its own pages is fine.

The license is marked as a draft not yet reviewed by a lawyer. Read the license page and have your own adviser check it before you rely on it for packaging or large print runs.