In a word, no. See style.mla.org/capitalizing-names-of-dog-breeds

"Do not routinely capitalize the names of dog breeds. Many breed names are composed of proper nouns that you capitalize [like Boston] and generic terms (like retriever or terrier) that you lowercase.


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