Here are the most popular breeds in Dortmund World Dog Show 2003. Around 30 breeds reach the figure of over 150 entries.
The entry figures to the World Dog Show 2003 confirm the importance of the Retriever stars, the Golden and the Labrador, yet few people thought that the Great Danes would be the most represented German breed. The most represented of all, in fact, when adding all its different colours.
The Sighthound Group counts four representatives in this top 30, with the Borzoi and the Irish Wolfhound in great health.
And while the Bernese Mountain Dog and Newfoundland are side by side at the 4th and 5th place, the Leonberger strangely isn’t in this chart. The number one breed in Germany, the German Shepherd Dog, will be judged by 6 different judges. There will be around 200 individuals, a record figure rarely seen at a World Dog Show, especially compared with that of Amsterdam’s in 2002, or Porto’s in 2001.
The 6th position of the Rhodesian Ridgeback is quite unexpected, but it largely confirms the growing interest of the dog fanciers for this amazing and original dog.
In the Group VII, the Irish Setter is the only dog to have an important participation, while the local star, the German Pointing Dog, doesn’t appear in the chart either.
Let’s underline the important participation of the Dogue de Bordeaux with 176 entries, a better figure than that of the Rottweiler’s (168 entries), whose birth figures are however incomparable. And still in the second Group, the true star of this World Dog Show, the Great Dane.
Is the absence in this top 30 of the Dobermann (190 entries at the World Dog Show 2002), of the Giant Schnauzer (166 entries in 2002) or of the Boxer (143 entries in 2002), a consequence of the laws concerning ear cropping and tail docking. The same thing may apply to the American Staffordshire Terrier (in 5th position in Amsterdam). Last breed affected by these laws, the Poodle, which had reached 338 entries last year in Amsterdam.
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