Animation's Top Dogs - 10 Memorable Cartoon Canines

If cartoons have been kind to any creature, it's been those of the canine persuasion.

The first animated dog was Bobby Bump's sidekick Fido, who took his cinematic bow way back in 1915. Since then, the world of animation just wouldn't be the same without the likes of Betty Boop's Bimbo and Pudgy; Tex Avery's Spike the Bulldog, Jonny Quest's Bandit, Hong Kong Phooey, or Batman's Ace and Superman's Krypto.

Still, the question has to be asked. Amongst this legion of cartoon hounds, just who is top dog?

Newsarama counts down our Top 10.