... Anyone's guess, unfortunately. It turns out that absolutely everyone seems to have their own opinion about the subject, and almost every article seems to root for a different canine companion as the most loyal one. For Cheat Sheet, it's the "profoundly loyal" Japanese Akita. Play Bark Run thinks that the playful and energetic, yet fairly hard-to-train boxer tops the loyalty charts. According to Animal Roll, there's no dog more loyal than the Golden Retriever. Canine Weekly, on the other hand, goes with the gigantic, goofy St. Bernard, thanks to the breed's rescue dog roots.

It's worth noting that opinion seems to have a lot of sway in these rankings — for instance, Entirely Pets names the Rough Collie as the most loyal breed, and they openly admit that it's a Lassie thing. Also, some dog breeds do make the top spot more than once, and both I Heart Dogs and Rover even name the protection-oriented Great Pyrenees as the most loyal breed. Then again, if we're going with consensus alone, there are several breeds that appear on multiple lists — Beagle, German Shepherd, and the aforementioned Rough Collie and Great Pyrenees all receive numerous mentions. So, maybe we should just give all of them the joint award of the Most Loyal Boy and call it a day. And by "all of them," we mean every dog. Clearly, that's the only possible takeaway, here: Every dog breed is the most loyal dog breed. (But seriously, if you really need to come up with a winner, we suppose it's technically one of the aforementioned four.) 

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