The American Kennel Club (AKC) has made list of the top 125 dogs in American culture, and our own Brian Griffin has made the list, clocking in at a very respectable #10.
Here are the top ten dogs:
1.
Snoopy – Charlie Brown’s pet Beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, drawn by Charles Schulz.
2.
Texas A&M’s “Reveille” – The official mascot, students adopted the first Reveille, a mixed-breed dog, in 1931. Eight years after the death of the first Reveille, a graduate of the university donated a Shetland Sheepdog to be the second official Aggie mascot, Reveille II. The third Reveille was the first to be a purebred Collie; all subsequent mascots have belonged to this breed.
3.
Scooby Doo – Norville “Shaggy” Rogers’ pet Great Dane who is in the animated Saturday morning television series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
4.
Eddie Spaghetti – The Jack Russell Terrier starred alongside Kelsey Grammer in the NBC sitcom Frasier.
5.
Pound Puppies – Created in 1984 by Tonka, these toy puppies could be “adopted” by kids. The toys were also featured in an animated television series on ABC.
6.
Dogs playing poker – A series of 16 oil paintings of anthropomorphized dogs playing poker by C.M. Coolidge was commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. Nine of the paintings, in which dogs are seated around a card table, have become mockingly known in the United States as examples of working-class taste in home decoration.
7.
“How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” – Written by Bob Merrill and recorded in 1953 by Patti Page.
8.
Georgetown’s “Jack the Bulldog –In 1962, “Jack” and the breed of English Bulldog was formally adopted the official mascot of Georgetown.
9.
“Who Let the Dogs Out?” – Written and originally recorded by Anslem Douglas for Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival season of 1998. The song was later covered by the Baha Men in 2000. The track went to win the 2001 Grammy for Best Dance Recording.
10.
Brian Griffin – The Griffin family’s cynical, substance-abusing, talking dog on the FOX animated series Family Guy.
11.
Lassie – The genius heroine
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