Best AKC dog group

Bill Cosby has a prize-winning Dandy Dinmont:

http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/021307harry-cosby.jpg

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This year's AKC show group winners:

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Sporting: CH COLSIDEX SEABREEZE PERFECT FIT, weimaraner

http://www.akc.org/image?key=67213&type=large

Hound: CH K-RUN'S PARK ME IN FIRST, beagle

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Working: CH REDWITCH REASON TO BELIEVE, akita

Terrier: CH EFBE'S HIDALGO AT GOODSPICE, sealyham

Toy: CH SMASH JP WIN A VICTORY, toy poodle (why the hell are poodles always winning?)

Non-Sporting: CH RANDENN TRISTAR AFFIRMATION, standard poodle (see? wtf)

Herding: CH KALEEF'S GENEVA AEVAL-ACHTUNG, German shepherd (not a fan of these guys either)

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Working group.

Because they twerkin.

AKC is weaksauce. Breeds all the personality out of dogs until they are stuffed animals.

shhhh

Oh, I mean the idea of the thing...I'm not one for making sure the dog is within the given parameters of AKC regs, resulting in brainitis and hip death and jaws that leak egg juice.

Working, obv, but nice unit on the Beagle.

He looks proud of it, too.

I like Hounds.

Hounds are fantastic!

Especially beagles, bassets, bloodhounds and dachshunds.

All beagles are crazy. Fact.

wtf herding u bitches

Hound-herding-working

Has anyone seen the new breed created from German Shepherds? They're like 50% larger than a normal shepherd, it's insane.

I voted for terriers, but was sorely tempted by hounds and working groups.

There are like four actual breeds of dogs that I can stand, and the rest just kind of make me angry that they exist. My favorite kind of dog is nth generation mutt so that you can't tell what breeds, if any, went into it in the first place

http://www.kingshepherd.com/images/Dakota%20at%20the%20Extravaganza%2010-05.jpg

basenjis are good, but bad dogs.

http://www.wildpromotie.nl/jagerslatijn/pics/basenji-fence.jpg

Also, they are 3/4 monkey.

Good gravy, I hope that woman is like 4 foot eight or something.

Mutts are the best, I agree. What are the ones you like?

I like: dauchshunds, bassets, beagles, bull terriers, english bulldogs, newfoundlands, and greyhounds. And pitties!

That shepherd is HORRORS

hounds do not ever STFU

They're talkers.

Basenjis are not merely talkers, but yodellers. But barkers. Just mad.

but NOT barkers.

My dog's always like, "Garumph. A rowmw rowmf romwf romwf romwf!" Actually, he never talked until one night I started imitating his sounds and now he thinks we can have conversations in Snitlandish all the time.

Voted hounds. The bassets and the beagles are always the funnest part of the show, and it's great to see them happily gallomping around the green floor.

Herding dogs only have corgis.

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a puppy to thread already!

Snitter: "Oh thank GOD, this girl has finally learned to talk. I was worried she was developmentally disabled what with all the incoherent babbling for all these years."

i cant believe i missed this!

also, great danes are part of the working group and as a great dane owner i can tell you these dogs have neither the disposition nor the eye paw coordination to do, well, just about anything.

except be super cute and sugar sweet, of course

The American Kennel Club is pleased to announce that three new breeds became eligible for AKC registration on January 1, 2011, bringing the totally number of registered breeds to 170.

Norwegian Lundehund
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Entlebucher Mountain Dog
http://pethealth.petwellbeing.com/w/images/a/ab/Entlebuch_Mountain_Dog.jpg

Xoloitzcuintli
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images9/XoloitzcuintliCaminosFridaKahlo1.jpg

whoa wtf at that entlebucher, its like a shorthaired tailless henry

Oh my gosh, the Entlebucher looks like a blend of Henry and my dopg, Mandy. It's kind of freaking me out!

oh ha, its part of the same family (sennenhund) so this is no surprise, its just the littlest of the guys.

tail is docked btw to which in general boooooo

the littlest sennenhund!
That is a Christmas special I would watch.

lundehand looks like a bro

they all look like they are bros, because they are dogs, and dogs are the best bros

One of the world’s oldest and rarest breeds, the Xolo can justly be called the first dog of the Americas. Archaeological evidence indicates that Xolos accompanied man on his first migrations across the Bering Straits. Their name is derived from the name of the Aztec Indian god Xolotl and Itzcuintli, the Aztec word for dog. With a reputation as a healer, the breed and its warm skin is often put to use in remote Mexican and Central American villages to ward off and cure ailments like rheumatism, asthma, toothache and insomnia. Xolos were also believed to safeguard the home from evil spirits and intruders.

There are two varieties, hairless and coated, identical except for coat and dentition. In the hairless variety, the principal characteristic is the total or almost total absence of hair. The coated variety is covered by a short, flat coat. In conformation, all three sizes are lean, sturdy, well muscled with a spacious ribcage, and moderate bone. The Xolo outline is rectangular, and the distance from the elbow to ground is equal to, or slightly greater than the distance from the withers to the elbow. Typical Xolo temperament is calm, tranquil, aloof and attentive.

my parents have a coated Xolo and she is the best <3 <3

LOL @ Ziggy the Puli

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/16/sports/20110216-westminster-dog-show-parade.html?hp#/0_67

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