The 25 Best Dog Breeds, From Fox Terriers to Poodles

As the Westminster Dog Show anoints a Scottish Deerhound as America’s top pooch, The Daily Beast combs through 135 years of competitive data to declare the greatest breeds of all-time.

The king title of the pooches— 2011’s Best in Show—was awarded to a Scottish Deerhound named Foxcliffe Hickory Wind Tuesday night at the Westminster Dog Show.

Gallery: The 25 Best Dog Breeds of All-Time

But while a win comes with bragging rights for a year, The Daily Beast wanted to know which breeds can lay claim to all-time supremacy. Westminster offers 135 years worth of data to figure that out: Specifically, which breeds historically perform the best across the board, in overall and group wins. To find out Westminster’s best breeds, we devised the following points system:

Best in Show: 10 points First place, group: 5 points Second place, group: 3 points Third place, group: 2 points Fourth place, group: 1 point