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2. Golden Retriever

Image: Burin P
Image: Burin P (Shutterstock)

The golden retriever is basically the poster child for the word “dog.” Some of the most iconic dogs in pop culture—Air Bud, Dug from Up, and the Bush’s Baked Beans mascot Duke—belong to the breed. #GoldenRetriever was used 34,620,981 times in the OurFitsPet study, making it the second most popular breed on Instagram. Golden retrievers, sadly, are also highly prone to cancer, with an estimated 65% of the dogs developing and unfortunately perishing from the illness, according to a study published in 2018 in PLOS One.