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KANAB, Utah — There are the perky, high-energy sorts like Lucas, all wagging tails and let’s-go-play vivaciousness.

There are the runners like Curly, who never saw a fence line or dirt trail they couldn’t wear down.

And there are the divas like Georgia, who go on publicity junkets and stay at the Beverly Hilton, wearing rhinestone-studded collars and hot pink tank tops that say “Biscuits are a girl’s best friend.”

They could be your dog, your neighbor’s, even one of those you see in a magazine being doted on by a celebrity owner.

These, though, are Michael Vick’s dogs.

Fourteen months after some experts left them for dead — in fact, said they should die — they are alive and thriving at the Best Friends Animal Society in the rocky red hills of Utah, rewriting the book about what pit bulls really are and what they can be.

Yes, it’s yet another story about Michael Vick’s pit bulls – but this one in the Detroit Free Press is so well done, we can’t help but direct you to it.

(Photo courtesy of Best Friends)

Hundreds of dogs have converged on New York for the annual Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Gardens, including this one — of a breed that wouldn’t have qualified in years past.

Darco is a Dogue de Bordeaux, or French mastiff, one of three new breeds recently recognized by the American Kennel Club.

About 2,500 dogs from some 170 breeds have been registered for the event which starts Monday and culminates with the Best in Show competition late Tuesday.

The Dogue de Bordeaux is believed to have originated in France six centuries ago for use as a guard and hunting dog, is massively built and has a heavily wrinkled face.

Kara Hammond, who brought Darco to New York from Pennsylvania, said that, as intimidating as he might look, he’s very gentle. “Smaller dogs? Oh, they scare him,” she said as the slobbering behemoth tried to pull her under a table. “He’s pretty laid back.”