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How the Numbers Move
Registration statistics, AKC and Kennel Club rankings, doodle crossbreeds outside the registries and the vulnerable native breeds list.
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Ancestor columns, four generations deep.
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The Year the French Bulldog Reached the Top of the AKC Chart
The AKC's annual registration rankings from 2012 to 2022, tracing the French bulldog's ascent to first place and the simultaneous decline of the Labrador retriever — with registration totals as published by the AKC for each year cited.
Thirty-One Years at Number One
The Labrador retriever's unbroken run at the top of the AKC registration chart from 1991 to 2021 — the registration volumes, the working and show strains as a documented divergence, and how the breed's Kennel Club position has tracked the same period.
How the Numbers Move
The Kennel Club's Annual Count and What Moves It
How the Kennel Club compiles and publishes annual breed registration figures — the difference between first registrations and total-on-register, the pandemic-era surge in the data, and the breeds that have moved most sharply in the most recent published decade.
How the Numbers Move
Below 300: The Kennel Club's Vulnerable Native Breeds
The Kennel Club's Vulnerable Native Breeds designation — the 300-registration threshold that triggers it, the breeds currently named, and how the list has changed since the scheme was introduced, with specific figures for the most recently published year.
How the Numbers Move
The Breeds That Don't Appear in the Count
Cockerpoos, labradoodles and goldendoodles as a category that sits entirely outside the KC and AKC registration systems — the scale of the crossbreed market estimated from named charity intake data and licensed-breeder figures, and the argument for a separate registry.
How the Numbers Move
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How the Numbers Move
How the FCI Divides the Dog
The Fédération Cynologique Internationale's ten group taxonomy — the groups, their section subdivisions and the country-of-origin principle that assigns each standard — compared with the KC's seven groups and the AKC's seven-group structure.
