More than half of all AKC dogs are in the top 10 breeds, with the bottom 50 breeds summing to 1.2 percent of all AKC-registered dogs (which is only about 5 percent of all dogs) .
To put it another way, the rarest 50 AKC Breeds total just 3 out of every 2,000 U.S. dogs.
So what are those bottom AKC 50 breeds as of 2016?
1. Beaucerons
2. Berger Picards
3. Setters (Irish Red and White)
4. Redbone Coonhounds
5. Spaniels (Clumber)
6. Lakeland Terriers
7. German Pinschers
8. Spaniels (Field)
9. Petits Bassets Griffons Vendeens
10. Affenpinschers
11. Spaniels (Irish Water)
12. Greyhounds
13. Ibizan Hounds
14. Icelandic Sheepdogs
15. Scottish Deerhounds
16. Sealyham Terriers
17. Spaniels (American Water)
18. Wirehaired Vizslas
19. Plotts
20. Pulik
21. Portuguese Podengo Pequenos
22. Entlebucher Mountain Dogs
23. Spanish Water Dogs
24. Swedish Vallhunds
25. Retrievers (Curly-Coated)
26. Kuvaszok
27. Otterhounds
28. Dandie Dinmont Terriers
29. Pharaoh Hounds
30. Polish Lowland Sheepdogs
31. American English Coonhounds
32. Lowchen
33. Spaniels (Sussex)
34. Finnish Lapphunds
35. Norwegian Buhunds
36. Chinooks
37. Pyrenean Shepherds
38. Komondorok
39. Skye Terriers
40. Finnish Spitz
41. Glen of Imaal Terriers
42. Canaan Dogs
43. Cesky Terriers
44. Cirnechi dell'Etna
45. Bergamasco
46. Sloughis
47. Harriers
48. English Foxhounds
49. Norwegian Lundehunds
50. American Foxhounds
Keen observers will note that some AKC breeds and types are actually common in the REAL world of dogs, if not in the American Kennel Club.
For example, the rarest breed in the U.S. is the American Foxhound, with the English Foxhound only slightly more popular.
Yet Foxhounds are the state dog of Virginia and we have mounted hunts from one end of the state to the other and all across the U.S. But AKC Foxhounds? Who wants a dog chosen for color rather than work? No one who actually uses Foxhounds.
And so it it with Greyhounds and three kinds of Coonhounds. Working dogs from these breeds are pretty common all over. But show dogs? Who want those?
1 comment:
Ah, greyhounds are a 'rare breed' according to the KC over here in the UK too. They don't say that too loudly as they'd be laughed out of the park. You can't go to a dog shelter without seeing a retired racer or three and they're a common sight in town and country. But no show papers!
As you say so eloquently, working dogs are rarely rare. There is no shortage of long dogs, hounds, gun dogs, sheep-herding dogs and livestock guardians... but the inbred pool selected to catch ribbons, there may be a tad bit less of.
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