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Written by Amy Beth Hanson, AP
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
 HELENA, Mont. — Tom Pick was backcountry skiing with his 3-year-old black Labrador Lizzie in southwestern Montana when a small avalanche carried the dog down the side of the mountain.
She disappeared from his reach and into the swirling snow. Pick searched for two days with no sign of Lizzie — haunted by the sight of the dog's eyes gazing up at him as she fell.
"I'll probably always see her eyes just looking up at me as she slid down into that thing," Pick said in an interview this week. "You could tell that she was scared."
Pick eventually gave up on the search and assumed the dog was gone. So when the phone rang on Super Bowl Sunday and the caller told him Lizzie had been found, Pick assumed it was her body.
"As much as we still wanted to have hope, at some point you kind of lose it and brace yourself," Pick said.
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For the 17th straight year the Labrador Retriever ranks as the most registered dog breed in America. The 2007 AKC registration figures show that Labs beat out Yorkshire Terriers by a wide margin. This isn't necessarily true on a city by city basis, where Yorkies are found to be more popular in places like Orlando, Florida. If you are interested in finding out what the most popular breeds are in your city visit the AKC's 
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