NEW YORK (AP) — Labrador retrievers are still tugging hardest on U.S. dog lovers’ heartstrings, but poodles just strutted back into the American Kennel Club’s top five most popular dog breeds for the first time since 1997.
The club’s annual popularity rankings came out Tuesday. They’re drawn from more than 800,000 purebred puppies and older pooches that joined the nation’s oldest canine registry last year. Labs have been No. 1 for an unprecedented 31 straight years. Rounding out the top five are French bulldogs, golden retrievers, German shepherds and poodles.
After that come bulldogs, beagles, Rottweilers, German shorthaired pointers and dachshunds.
PHOTO FILE – Memo, a Labrador retriever, competes in the sporting group during the 142nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, at Madison Square Garden in New York, Feb. 13, 2018. The American Kennel Club’s annual popularity rankings come out Tuesday, March 15, 2022, and Labrador retrievers are the top dog. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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CHICAGO (AP) — On a nondescript stretch of South Michigan Avenue in Chicago is a little-known site that can transport music lovers back in time. Chess Records is still in its original building. And public tours are available. Some of the biggest names in blues recorded hits in Chess' recording studio. There was Muddy Waters' "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode." There was Bo Diddley's […]
