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Red Dead Redemption 2 Dog

Red Dead Redemption 2 Dog
Dog
Class Mammal
Size Medium

Quick Overview

Red Dead Redemption 2 Dog can be hunted and skinned for crafting materials, it's a Medium sized Mammal animal. We recommend using a Rifle or a Sniper to hunt this animal. You can cook the meal from hunting it, Rufus, Mutt, Poodle, Labrador Retriever, Siberian Husky, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Catahoula Cur, Border Collie, Bluetick Coonhound, Bloodhound, Australian Shepherd, American Fox Hound. it's not a Legendary Animal.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Dog Locations

Every type of Dog found in RDR2.

Using the best weapons to hunt a Dog in Red Dead 2, will reward you with a Perfect Quality Kill. Since this animal is omnivorous you should use Predator Bait and Herbivore Bait to attract it in the wild.

Dog Perfect Quality Kill Weapons.

  • Use Predator Bait and Herbivore Bait
  • Bow with Arrow
  • Bow with Poison Arrow
  • Throwable with Throwing Knife
  • Throwable with Poison Throwing Knife
  • Repeater with Regular
  • Repeater with Split Point
  • Repeater with High Velocity
  • Repeater with Express
  • Rifle with Regular
  • Rifle with Split Point
  • Rifle with High Velocity
  • Rifle with Express
  • Sniper with Regular
  • Sniper with Split Point
  • Sniper with High Velocity
  • Sniper with Express

Regular Dog Locations

    There's currently no Legendary version of this animal.

    Rufus

    • The Marston family dog and Jack's best friend.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Mutt

    • Mutts can be found across Armadillo and St.
    • Denis.
    • A mutt is recognized as being a cross of at least three different breeds of dogs.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • Domestic mutts can make good household pets.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Poodle

    • Poodles can be found in the wealthy neighborhoods of St.
    • Denis and Rhodes.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • Poodles are considered to be good duck and bird hunting companions.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Labrador Retriever

    • Labrador Retrievers can be found at farms and ranches across New Hanover and New Austin.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • This breed of dog makes good hunting companions.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Siberian Husky

    • The Siberian Husky can be found in towns and on ranches across West Elizabeth and New Hanover.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • This breed of dog has been bred to help with hunting and gathering.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Chesapeake Bay Retriever

    • Chesapeake Bay Retrievers can be found at ranches, homesteads, train stations and towns across New Hanover.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • This breed of dog has been used for hunting, and to retrieve waterfowl.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Catahoula Cur

    • The Catahoula Cur can be found in towns across the states.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • These dogs have been traditionally used for boar hunting.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Border Collie

    • Border Collies can be found at ranches and in towns across Lemoyne and New Hanover.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • This breed of dog has been bred for herding livestock.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Bluetick Coonhound

    • The Bluetick Coonhound can be found on ranches or in towns across Lemoyne and New Hanover.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • Their strong sense of smell makes them excellent hunting dogs, especially for hunting raccoons.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Bloodhound

    • Bloodhounds can be found in towns across the states.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • Bloodhounds have been bred for hunting wild boar and deer.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    Australian Shepherd

    • Australian Shepherd dogs can be found in most towns across the states.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • The breeding of Australian Shepherds has made them good sheep herders, especially in mountain environments.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium

    American Fox Hound

    • The American Fox Hound is a popular breed of dog that can be found in towns across the states.
    • Their omnivorous diet usually consists of dog food made up from meat, vegetable matter, and offal.
    • These dogs were bred for hunting, and are cousins of the English Fox Hound.

    Locations where you can find:

    Compendium
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    Dog Cooking Recipes

    Cooking recipes you can use with this animal.

    Recipe Name Regular Thyme Type Oregano Type Mint Type

    Dog Materials

    The materials you will receive from hunting and skinning an Dog will depend on the animal quality and kill quality.

    Material Cost Kill Quality

    Red Dead Redemption 2 Dog Crafting

    What you can make from Dog crafting materials.

    Trapper Crafting

    Item Name Pricing How to unlock

    Fence Crafting

    Recipe Name Effect How to obtain Type Price

    Where to find these Special Crafting Materials

    Ingredient How to get

    Camp Crafting

    Used for It makes Crafting ingredients

    Item Crafting

    Recipe Name Ingredients Where to find Description
    Predator Bait – 1x Stringy Meat – 1x Wintergreen, Evergreen, Huckleberry, Raspberry or Blackberry
    Predator Bait – 1x Stringy Meat – 1x Wintergreen, Evergreen, Huckleberry, Raspberry or Blackberry
    Potent Herbivore Bait – 1x Vanilla Flower – 1x Violet Snowdrop – 1x Bay Bolete, Ram’s Head, Parasol Mushroom or Chanterelle Received at the start of Chapter 2
    Potent Herbivore Bait – 1x Vanilla Flower – 1x Violet Snowdrop – 1x Bay Bolete, Ram’s Head, Parasol Mushroom or Chanterelle Received at the start of Chapter 2
    Potent Herbivore Bait – 1x Vanilla Flower – 1x Violet Snowdrop – 1x Bay Bolete, Ram’s Head, Parasol Mushroom or Chanterelle Received at the start of Chapter 2
    Potent Predator Bait – 1x Gritty Fish Meat – 1x Blackberry, Wintergreen Berry, Raspberry or Evergreen Berry Received at the start of Chapter 2
    Potent Predator Bait – 1x Gritty Fish Meat – 1x Blackberry, Wintergreen Berry, Raspberry or Evergreen Berry Received at the start of Chapter 2
    Improved Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 15 Damage
    Improved Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 15 Damage
    Fire Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 20 Damage | Incendiary Effect
    Fire Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 20 Damage | Incendiary Effect
    Fire Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 20 Damage | Incendiary Effect
    Dynamite Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Dynamite – 1x Flight Feather Located at the South end of Wapiti Indian Reservation, at the base of a wooden bridge you will find it within a chest. | Also sold by Fences after “A Short Walk in a Pretty Town” + 40 Damage | Explosive Effect
    Dynamite Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Dynamite – 1x Flight Feather Located at the South end of Wapiti Indian Reservation, at the base of a wooden bridge you will find it within a chest. | Also sold by Fences after “A Short Walk in a Pretty Town” + 40 Damage | Explosive Effect
    Dynamite Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Dynamite – 1x Flight Feather Located at the South end of Wapiti Indian Reservation, at the base of a wooden bridge you will find it within a chest. | Also sold by Fences after “A Short Walk in a Pretty Town” + 40 Damage | Explosive Effect
    Poison Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Oleander Sage – 1x Flight Feather Located Northeast of Bacchus Station, right outside the Mysterious Hill Home. You will receive it from a chest | Also sold by Fences after Chapter 2 + 5 Damage | Good for Hunting
    Poison Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Oleander Sage – 1x Flight Feather Located Northeast of Bacchus Station, right outside the Mysterious Hill Home. You will receive it from a chest | Also sold by Fences after Chapter 2 + 5 Damage | Good for Hunting
    Poison Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Oleander Sage – 1x Flight Feather Located Northeast of Bacchus Station, right outside the Mysterious Hill Home. You will receive it from a chest | Also sold by Fences after Chapter 2 + 5 Damage | Good for Hunting
    Small Game Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Regular Shotgun Shells – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 - 20 Damage | Good for Hunting Small animals
    Small Game Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Regular Shotgun Shells – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 - 20 Damage | Good for Hunting Small animals
    Small Game Arrow – 1x Arrow – 1x Regular Shotgun Shells – 1x Flight Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 - 20 Damage | Good for Hunting Small animals
    Volatile Dynamite – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Dynamite – 1x High Velocity Cartridge Located at Hani’s Bethel just north of the small pond, you will find a chest beneath a broken down wagon. | Also sold by Fences after “American Distillation” +10 Damage
    Volatile Dynamite – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Dynamite – 1x High Velocity Cartridge Located at Hani’s Bethel just north of the small pond, you will find a chest beneath a broken down wagon. | Also sold by Fences after “American Distillation” +10 Damage
    Volatile Dynamite – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Dynamite – 1x High Velocity Cartridge Located at Hani’s Bethel just north of the small pond, you will find a chest beneath a broken down wagon. | Also sold by Fences after “American Distillation” +10 Damage
    Volatile Fire Bottle – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Moonshine Located Northwest of Horseshoe Overlook, you will find an abandoned camp inside a burned down forest. You will receive it from a chest | Also sold by Fences after “Pouring Forth Oil” + 10 Damage
    Volatile Fire Bottle – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Moonshine Located Northwest of Horseshoe Overlook, you will find an abandoned camp inside a burned down forest. You will receive it from a chest | Also sold by Fences after “Pouring Forth Oil” + 10 Damage
    Fire Bottle – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Gin, Guarma Rum, Fine Brandy or Kentucky Bourbon Received at the start of Chapter 2 AOE Fire Damage on Impact
    Fire Bottle – 1x Animal Fat – 1x Gin, Guarma Rum, Fine Brandy or Kentucky Bourbon Received at the start of Chapter 2 AOE Fire Damage on Impact
    Homing Tomahawk – 1x Tomahawk – 1x Owl Feather Located South of Moonstone Pond, inside a Flattened Cabin you will find a chest with pamphlet inside | Also sold by Fences after Chapter 2 + 5 Range | + 10 Accuracy
    Homing Tomahawk – 1x Tomahawk – 1x Owl Feather Located South of Moonstone Pond, inside a Flattened Cabin you will find a chest with pamphlet inside | Also sold by Fences after Chapter 2 + 5 Range | + 10 Accuracy
    Improved Tomahawk – 1x Tomahawk – 1x Eagle Featheror Hawk Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 5 Range | + 10 Damage
    Improved Tomahawk – 1x Tomahawk – 1x Eagle Featheror Hawk Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 5 Range | + 10 Damage
    Improved Throwing Knife – 1x Throwing Knife – 1x Eagle Feather or Hawk Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 10 Damage | + 5 Range | + 5 Accuracy
    Improved Throwing Knife – 1x Throwing Knife – 1x Eagle Feather or Hawk Feather Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 10 Damage | + 5 Range | + 5 Accuracy
    Poison Throwing Knife – 1x Throwing Knife – 1x Oleander Sage Located Northeast of Saint Denis is a shack, hidden beneath a floorboard you find the Pamphlet | Also sold by Fences after “Pouring Forth Oil” + 10 Damage | Good for Hunting
    Poison Throwing Knife – 1x Throwing Knife – 1x Oleander Sage Located Northeast of Saint Denis is a shack, hidden beneath a floorboard you find the Pamphlet | Also sold by Fences after “Pouring Forth Oil” + 10 Damage | Good for Hunting
    Split Point Cartridge – 1x Hunting Knife – 1x Regular Cartridge Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 5 Damage | + 10 Accuracy
    Split Point Cartridge – 1x Hunting Knife – 1x Regular Cartridge Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 5 Damage | + 10 Accuracy
    Explosive Cartridge – 1x Express Cartridge – 1x Animal Fat Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 25 Damage | Explosive Effect
    Explosive Cartridge – 1x Express Cartridge – 1x Animal Fat Received at the start of Chapter 2 + 25 Damage | Explosive Effect
    Incendiary Buckshot – 1x Regular Shotgun Shell – 1x Moonshine Located at Copperhead Landing inside a cabin, hidden beneath a floorboard you will find a Pamphlet | Also sold by Fences after “Pouring Forth Oil” + 15 Damage | Incendiary Effect
    Incendiary Buckshot – 1x Regular Shotgun Shell – 1x Moonshine Located at Copperhead Landing inside a cabin, hidden beneath a floorboard you will find a Pamphlet | Also sold by Fences after “Pouring Forth Oil” + 15 Damage | Incendiary Effect
    Explosive Slug – 1x Regular Shotgun Shell – 1x Animal Fat Located between Gaptooth Ridge and Cholla Springs is a burned down alchemist house, right outside it you will find a chest with a pamphlet | Also sold by Fences after “A Short Walk in a Pretty Town” + 25 Damage | + 20 Accuracy | + 5 Range | Explosive Effect
    Explosive Slug – 1x Regular Shotgun Shell – 1x Animal Fat Located between Gaptooth Ridge and Cholla Springs is a burned down alchemist house, right outside it you will find a chest with a pamphlet | Also sold by Fences after “A Short Walk in a Pretty Town” + 25 Damage | + 20 Accuracy | + 5 Range | Explosive Effect
    Special Horse Medicine Ginseng x2, Common Bulrush x2, Wild Carrot x2 Special Horse Medicine Pamphlet – After you complete “Pouring Forth Oil” sold by Fencer
    Potent Horse Medicine Ginseng x1, Common Bulrush x1
    Special Horse Reviver Ginseng x2, Wild Carrot x2, Parasol Mushroom x2 Special Horse Reviver Pamphlet – After you complete “American Distillation” sold by Fencer
    Potent Horse Stimulant Sage x1, Common Bulrush x1
    Special Horse Stimulant Sage x2, Common Bulrush x2, Wild Carrot x2 Special Horse Stimulant Pamphlet – After you complete “Pouring Forth Oil” sold by Fencer
    Potent Snake Oil Indian Tobacco x1
    Special Snake Oil Indian Tobacco x2, Currant or Prairie Poppy x2 Special Snake Oil Pamphlet – After you complete “American Distillation” sold by Fencer
    Cover Scent Lotion Scent Gland x1 Given at the start of Chapter 2
    Potent Miracle Tonic Indian Tobacco x4, Ginseng x4, Sage x4
    Special Miracle Tonic Currant x6, Yarrow x6, Burdock Root x4 Special Tonic Pamphlet – After you complete “A Short Walk in a Pretty Town” sold by Fencer
    Horse Meal Currant x3, Beets x3, Hay x3 Horse Meal Pamphlet – After you complete “Pouring Forth Oil” sold by Fencer
    Horse ointment Sage x1, Common Bulrush x1, yarrow x1 Horse Ointment Pamphlet – Given at the beginning of Chapter 2
    Potent Health Cure Ginseng x1, Yarrow x1
    Special Health Care Ginseng x2, Yarrow x2, English Mace of Milkweed x2 Special Health Care Pamphlet – After you complete “American Distillation” sold by Fencer
    Potent Bitters Sage x1, Burdock Root x1
    Special Bitters Sage x2, Burdock Root x2, Violet Snowdrop or Wild Feverfew x2 Special Bitters Pamphlet – After Chapter 2 sold by Fencer

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