Border Terrier

Border Terrier description and history


Description


 Border Terriers have a broad bone and short (although several ar fairly long), robust muzzle with a scissors bite. The formed ears ar on the perimeters of the top and fall towards the cheeks. Common coat colours ar grizzle-and-tan, blue-and-tan, red, or wheaten. Whiskers ar few and short. The tail is of course moderately short, thick at the bottom and tapering.

Narrow-bodied and shapely, males stand thirteen to sixteen in (33 to forty one cm) at the shoulder, and weigh thirteen to fifteen.5 lb (5.9 to 7.0 kg); females eleven to fourteen in (28 to thirty six cm) and eleven.5 to fourteenpounds (5.2 to 6.4 kg).they're terribly versatile in families and as family pets

The terrier encompasses a double coat consisting of a brief, dense, soft undercoat and harsh, thin weather- and dirt-resistant, close-lying outer coat with no curl or wave. This coat sometimes needs hand-stripping doubly a year to get rid of dead hair. It then takes regarding eight weeks for the highest coat to return back in. for a few dogs, weekly brushing can satisfy. Most Border Terriers ar seen kempt with short hair however longer hair will typically be most well-liked.


History


Originally the terrier was stated because the Coquetdale hunting dog or Redesdale hunting dog from the realmduring which it evolved, however by the late 1800s it absolutely was typically referred to as the terrierin all probability thanks to its long history with the Border Hunt in Northumberland. It shares its ancestry therewith of the terrier and therefore the Dandie Dinmont terrier hunting dogit absolutely was recognised as a breed by the Kennel Club in 1920, a similar year The terrier Club was fashioned. Their original purpose was to bolt foxes that had gone to ground. They were conjointly accustomed kill rodents, however they need been accustomed hunt otters and badgers too.

The first Kennel Club terrier ever registered was The bryophyte Trooper, a dog sired by Jacob Robson's give 1912 and registered within the Kennel Club's the other selection listing in 1913. The terrier was rejected for formal Kennel Club recognition in 1914, however won its wring 1920, with the primary normal being written by Jacob Robson and John Dodd. opaque gem Dodd was created 1st President of the Club.

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