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The Border Terrier is a British breed of small, rough-coated terrier. It originates from the area of the Anglo-Scottish border, and shares ancestry with the Dandie Dinmont Terrier and the Bedlington Terrier from the same area. [2] The dogs were traditionally used in fox-hunting, and worked with the Border Hunt in Northumberland.
Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, normally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds. A group of unarmed followers, led by a "master of foxhounds" (or "master of hounds"), follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. [1]
The hunt terrier was kept for a variety of reasons, such as rat control around stables and kennels, and to run with the hounds to flush the fox from small hiding places. It might also be expected to flush foxes from underground dens ("going to earth" like a working terrier ), or to act as a lurcher .
No wonder -- after all, the parents weren't real hunting dogs. The picture changed, though, when we bred our four 'originals' with our well-trained old hunting fox terriers. The beautiful dark color continued to be dominate. Dogs with a lot of the white color and spotted dogs were selected and eliminated from further breeding."
Terriers are a group of working dogs developed for hunting and vermin-routing. ... Border Terrier; Boston Terrier; Bothie (dog) ... Smooth Fox Terrier;
This seems out of place, as a) the dogs are staghounds, and b) earlier in the article it is stated that "in France, [fox] hunting tends to take place mainly on a small scale and on foot, with mounted hunts tending to hunt red or roe deer, or wild boar". I didn't want to just go ahead and remove the image, in case it is somehow relevant ...
The combination of those dogs, the French Foxhounds, and the dogs Washington kept, which were descended from Brooke's, create the present-day American Foxhound. The American Foxhound originated in the states of Maryland and Virginia, where Washington lived, and is the state dog of Virginia. [6] The breed was developed purely for hunting foxes.
English Foxhound circa 1915. The English Foxhound has been bred for over two hundred years, with the stud books dating back before 1800. [1]During the British rule in India, English Foxhounds were exported to India for the purpose of jackal coursing, [3] though due to the comparatively hotter weather, they were rarely long lived. [4]