END OF YEAR RANKINGS

As we tally the last few points of the year we find that our rankings have a few surprises. First we welcome the nation’s number one Non-Sporting Dog to both the traditional top ten and our own top ten lists. The Bulldog, CH Kepley’s Showbiz Razzle Dazzle, knows how to make an entrance, grabbing the tenth spot on our traditional list and the ninth spot on the Dog Show Poop list.

CH Kepley’s Showbiz Razzle Dazzle

However, the really intriguing question is who is the Number Five Dog All Breeds? Our numbers have the Toy Poodle, CH Smash Jp Moon Walk, and the Smooth Fox Terrier, CH J’Cobe Kemosabe Vigilante Justice, only 18 points apart. We are usually supremely confident in our numbers. In this case, we still have not been able to put our hands on the actual number of dogs competing at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship. You may recall that the Toy Poodle, Walker, was the Toy Group representative in the final seven.

We have not been able to find anyone at Onofrio or at the AKC willing to give up the numbers. If any of you out there have the number of Toy Dogs actually competing, please send them to us. We would very much like the rankings appearing on these pages on January 1, 2010, to be up to our standards of accuracy. And you thought there was no drama this year?

Update 12/28/09 7:22 PM CST Our thanks to Kath Patrick of Bellatak Havanese for providing the numbers. Our readers are the best!