As soon as I opened the mail yesterday and saw the cover of my March issue of DVM Newsmagazine ("The voice of veterinary news"), I knew there was going to be trouble. A small headline said, "page 8: AKC unveils top breeds." Now, everyone around here knows that Labs always come in No. 1 in these rankings, year after year (19 in a row, but who's counting?), and no one cares. "Labs, Schmabs," they say. What the gang wanted to know, of course, is where the Beagles and Dachshunds ranked. That's the real competition at the ranch. So I gathered them round the kitchen table and read off the top 10 list, and when I got to No. 5 — Beagles! — there was a lot of celebratory woo-woo-wooing. And then, mercifully, came the Dachshunds at No. 8. There was a chorus of little barks from way down there near the floor, but it was pretty subdued compared to the Beagle cheering squad. They were more than a bit worried that they just barely made it into the top 10. "How can that be?" they fretted. "We're so cute and have so much personality, and besides, we're easy to pick up and carry! Just try lugging a Beagle around."
The Dachshunds don't know what people see in Beagles, and vice versa, but at least they can both agree that they should be more popular than the Labs/Schmabs.
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