Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Rat Terrier Club of America is the official breed parent club for the American Kennel Club (AKC). Rat Terriers were accepted into the AKC's terrier group June 2012. Rat terriers have been competing in the United Kennel Club events for over 15 years. UKC is a family-friendly group that promotes many different venues for dogs to compete.
Terrier: John Grenville Bates [10] 1931 [10] 1932 Ch. Nancolleth Markable: Pointer: Sporting: Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge [38] 1933 Ch. Warland Protector of Shelterock: Airedale Terrier: Terrier: S. M. Stewart [39] 1934 Ch. Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston: Fox Terrier (Wire) Stanley Halle [40] 1935 Ch. Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen ...
Rat-baiting in 1873. Rat-baiting is a blood sport that involves releasing captured rats in an enclosed space with spectators betting on how long a dog, usually a terrier, takes to kill the rats. It is now illegal in most countries. An earthdog trial tests the working ability and instinct of the small, often short-legged terriers or Dachshunds ...
Fox Terriers and feists are often predominantly white so as to be visible to hunters. Many other variants of this type exist, such as the Russell Terrier, Parson Russell Terrier and Rat Terrier, with many locally developed purebred dog breeds. The original fox terrier type was documented in England in the 18th century.
[1] [2] Originally registered as a hairless variety of Rat Terriers, eventually the Scotts adopted a different breed name for their unique line and established a separate breed club, the American Hairless Terrier Association. [1] In 2004 the United Kennel Club recognised the line as a breed and in 2016 the American Kennel Club also recognised ...
When the types were separated by the Rat Terrier Club of America, the short-legged variety was named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, although he never owned Rat Terriers nor was he instrumental in developing the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier. The dog most attributed to being one of the foundations for the Rat Terriers was a black-and-tan, mixed-breed ...
Terrier (from Latin terra, 'earth') is a type of dog originally bred to hunt vermin. [1] [2] [3] A terrier is a dog of any one of many breeds or landraces of the terrier type, which are typically small, wiry, game, and fearless. [4] There are five different groups of terrier, with each group having different shapes and sizes.
[3] [4] It is widely believed that the Ca Rater Mallorquí is related to the Gos Rater Valencià; it is also possible that there was some infusion of English terrier blood in the history of the breed. [3] A breed society, the Club Espanyol del Ca Rater Mallorquí, was established in 1990, and registrations were begun. [5]