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Despite the growing interest in its implementation in veterinary medicine, standardized descriptions of the EEG features of the different stages of brain development in dogs are restricted to studies with limited number of dogs and limited age groups. In this research, the electroencephalographic recording of 72 dogs of different breeds and ages was carried out under xylazine sedation to determine tracing characteristics by visual analysis and through statistical analysis of power spectrum. To establish the EEG features of recordings, 3 essential aspects were selected: (a) the presence or absence of slow waves of 4 to 6\u20137 Hz; (b) the comparison of the electrical activity recorded in the temporal and dorsal cortex channels; and (c) the visual increase of the alpha activity. Visual analysis on both reference and bipolar montage was performed by the authors and additionally blindly corroborated by two human neurophysiologists. 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